By Jim McCausland, Sunset Magazine

Sometimes you want just enough fence to discourage neighborhood dogs, or to give vines a place to climb, without necessarily blocking the view. That's just what this fence does, and it couldn't be easier to make.

Portland landscape designer Marina Wynton hung this wire fence on four-by-four fence posts topped with ready-made decorative post caps. The wire between the posts is 6-in. square welded wire mesh. Manufactured and usually sold to reinforce concrete slabs, this is available from some garden centers, building supply houses, and box stores (I noticed that Lowe's is selling 5- by 150-ft. rolls of it for under $100).

Wynton chose carbon steel mesh and let it rust into near invisibility.

The mesh is held in place by eye bolts screwed into the 4 by 4's, as shown below.