Luxury Housing Trends & Home Improvement Ideas

We put fences around our homes for a number of reasons: to keep the dog from escaping, to the kids from escaping, to keep the neighbors from seeing us skinny dipping in the hot tub, etc. etc. etc. Most of the time, we’re thinking functionality when we put up a fence, but these property boundary markers can be an opportunity to show off our personality too.

This wheel fence surrounds a big white barn in rural Uniontown, Washington (and, yes, that’s as small as it sounds), and it took the property owner decades to build. It includes 1,000 wheels, and it–and the old dairy barn behind it–have been featured in National Geographic magazine.

A fence made of wheels may not be exactly your style–and I’m not sure it would keep my dog in the yard–but it certainly fits the rustic feel of this old barn. When you’re choosing a fence for your home, consider materials and a style that will match your personality and fit in with your home and property.

The Dahmen Barn and Wheel Fence

I don’t know about you, but I hate cleaning the bathroom. The tub and shower area is particularly tedious. If you have a tub shower, then you have to clean dirt and other funk off the bottom of the tub and the curtain, and if you’ve got a shower stall, there’s usually gunk and/or mildew in the crevasses of the door. I’d dig a nice looking walk-in shower, if only because there’s no door or shower curtain.

With walk-in showers, they’re built as their own little (well, some of the luxury ones are not so little) rooms that are angled so water won’t escape and flood the bathroom. There usually isn’t a door, just a wall or partition to create some privacy.

Since you’re not confined to a tiny shower cubicle, there’s usually room for some other amenities too. Some walk-in showers feature multiple shower heads, extra spray jets, and benches to sit on (or prop your foot on for shaving).

If I were remodeling my bathroom, and had some space to play with, I’d definitely put in a walk-in shower (and some of those jets sound good too).

The shower pictured was created by Supreme Surface, Inc.