How to cover an ugly plastic fence without drilling
Use minimal, floor-based covers like fake vines that look completely intentional and take up very little walkway space. Renters are stuck staring at giant, heat-radiating plastic walls that echo noise and ruin their morning coffee. Because neighbors frequently inspect the boundary, tenants cannot drill into the plastic or cause any damage to hide it.
What the numbers show
Counted from the threads quoted below. How we count
- People have been saying this in most months since September 2026.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
Found another way around this?
Share your steps and trade-offs so fellow engineers don't have to reinvent the wheel. No account required.
- 1Using fake vines or other decorative coverings that require minimal floor space and avoid drilling into the neighbor's structure.Did this help you?
- 2Hanging a vertical decorative element like a barometer, sconce, or ceramic plates over the spot.Did this help you?
- 3Painting the entire wall instead of trying to spot-fix it.Did this help you?
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“completely buffed away the dead-flat matte texture, polished the drywall into a shiny vertical track”source ↗
“Feathering fresh paint on dead-flat matte always leaves a noticeable sheen difference that will bug me forever.”source ↗
“my game plan is to cover it with something that looks completely intentional.”source ↗
“Where I am renting, my neighbor tore down the rustic chain-link fence and vining plants between our back patio and his side patio, put up this giant plastic thick wall which echoes every single sound and degree of heat coming from the outside, it’s quite awful.”source ↗
“He comes on our property to inspect it all the time so I can’t exactly drill into it, but I would like some advice as to how I can make this look better, fake vines?”source ↗
“There’s not a lot of walkway so whatever I can do that’s minimal on the floor that doesn’t damage this ugly stupid plastic fence would be ideal”source ↗
“I just hate having coffee staring at this stupid wall.”source ↗
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