Needing garden ideas!

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So one of the reasons I’ve been too busy to pop on here much is that we moved house. The new house is really nice and already feels like home but the garden is a bit more problematic. There’s plenty of space, but it’s just a totally different shape and style to our old one. I need some helpful ideas so I thought I may as well ask all you nice people for suggestions! The house is one of five on a little private road, and it has no boundary of any sort on the roadside. This does give it a nice open, spacious sort of feeling for the other residents, but does make me feel very exposed and of course is useless for chickens or any other pets. And the local deer just wander in and out (I think the current planting is all based on what deer don’t eat too much of). And I notice that none of the other residents have had any qualms about enclosing their own gardens! So the question is what to put that is practical and also looks presentable. Wire netting is going to have to be involved, but I guess I was hoping for something a bit more garden-like than just a regular field-style fence. I could put a regular post and netting fence and then grow a smart hedge such as beech or hornbeam right next to it to conceal it. Or a fence with a row of assorted flowering shrubs, either in front of or behind it (but which side would be best?) Or some more attractive style of fence such as a picket fence with the wire netting attached, with a herbaceous flower bed either in front of or behind it – but then if the fence needed maintenance such as painting that could get very difficult. Or a brick wall? I imagine that would be very expensive but it would match the house and could look smart. What would you do?