Add Long-Lasting Privacy To Your Deck With A Budget-Friendly Bed Riser Hack

It's difficult to enjoy your time outside on your deck when passersby can peek right into your space. Homeowners often solve this problem by having a privacy fence built and installed by professionals, but this is an expensive and time-consuming process. A quicker and easier option is to create your own privacy solution with bed risers and a few other affordable materials. You can do this by placing faux flowers and greenery inside the bed risers, using glass pebbles to weigh them down, and placing the risers into rectangular wooden planters. Hang a privacy trellis around your deck, and line the filled planters up along the bottom of it. The finished result is a wall of greenery that blocks the view of anyone outside the deck.

This cheap DIY privacy fence is super beginner friendly and does not require any professional construction. Additionally, the great thing about using faux plants to create a privacy wall is they do not have to be maintained like real plants would. You can find faux plants that look pretty realistic, too. After building this decorative privacy solution with just a few materials, you will be able to spend time out on your deck without worry.

You can refer to the TikTok video posted by user @onecoastliving to see how this privacy fence idea comes together in real life. To build it yourself, start out by placing glass pebbles, faux flowers, and faux greenery into your bed risers to recreate the arrangement shown in the video. These flat glass marbles on Amazon ($8.88) come in a green color similar to that shown in the video, so you may want to purchase them to use for this step. If you would like to use the same faux plants shown in the video, you can purchase artificial white Southern magnolia flowers ($18.99) and artificial Boston ferns ($8.99). You can slide the plant stems into these foam blocks for artificial flowers ($7.99) to keep them in place.

The Home It bed risers on Amazon ($17.99) are the perfect size to hold all of the materials. After arranging the plants in the bed risers, you will need to slide them into rectangular planters. These wooden planter boxes ($42.95) come in a set of four, so you may want to use them. Next, hang an expandable willow trellis ($69.99) on your deck fence according to the instructions that come with the product. As the final step, line up all your filled planter boxes along the bottom of the trellis, as shown in the TikTok. 

If you're not a fan of the faux-leaf-covered trellis shown in the video, consider instead using the KANAGAWA privacy screen fence on Amazon ($33.99) to block the view of your deck from the outside.