Finish Renovating with Fence Post Caps Finials

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We had $600 left over from our redecorating budget of $10,000. Almost all the money was spent on the interior of the home on bathroom and kitchen updates. Rather than pocket the extra money, we decided to take a look at our yard as a place to add $600 in improvements. It was small and quaint and surrounded by a cedar fence, a feature that provided some privacy. But, it was basically a plain and boring fence. We found a simple, but elegant, solution when we found an appealing fence post cap design online. The cedar fence post caps were around $18 each. Eleven were required for the project, which added up to less than $200.

We considered keeping the extra $400, but instead settled on adding finials to the fence design. Finials are decorative ornamental shapes added to the top of a post cap. They are one of the earliest forms of architectural ornamentation and have been used throughout the history of the world to add detail and flourish to gates, fences, fence posts, arbors and all manner of useful structures. We agreed on a cedar finial shaped like an acorn. The cedar finials were about $25 a piece. In the end our fence beautification cost about $450. We took the extra $150 and put it back in the bank!

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