I have to make a decision in the next few days - do we lose our lovely view of countryside/ fields/ grazing sheep but regain privacy in our garden/house - or - do we keep the view but endure loss of privacy???
I can't decide. Our garden backs onto agricultural land - firstly a privately owned field. I bought the house largely for the fantastic rural view and the sense of our garden being much bigger than it was, as the end boundary only had a wire mesh fence.
Then we discovered that people trespassed into the field and gangs of local children 'enjoyed' ogling us in our garden and at the back of the house, calling over, pulling down the fence as they tried to climb up it, throwing stones at and chasing the sheep....a trampoline was placed in the field and a bike track mowed around the perimeter. DSs were bullied and aggressed so that they stopped wanting to go into the garden at all and I stopped too.
The field owners found out about the trespass and forbid anyone going onto their land. The trampoline was taken down and the play equipment removed and we breathed a sigh of relief....
But now they're starting to come back, not quite so much as before but enough to invade our privacy. A gang of 7 children were roaming in the field late at night, the other day and the neighbour came to stare at some works we're having done in the garden...
I have to decide in the next few days - do I get a tall fence erected and block out the trespasses but also will block our view, our light, the sense that the garden is bigger than it really is??? - or do I put up privacy trellis all along, slightly restricting our view but not too much, letting in the light and preserving some sense of expansion to the garden....BUT also allowing the trespasses full view of our lives?
I've posted in other MN sections about this before but now it's 'crunch time'. So WWYD? - Gain privacy at last - but lose the view - or keep our view and tolerate privacy invasion?