Fence Installation in Lakewood, TX

The housing stock around Lakewood Heights, Lower Lakewood, and the Tokalon Park area leans heavily on Tudor Revival and Colonial Revival—steep gables, brick and stone, arched doorways, and a lot of architectural character worth protecting. The wrong fence flattens all of that. A flimsy stockade panel in front of a storybook Tudor looks exactly as off as it sounds.

Two materials do the heavy lifting in Lakewood:

• Western Red Cedar for backyards and side yards. Board-on-board cedar gives you a solid, warm privacy line that ages into the neighborhood instead of shouting for attention. It is the standard we spec for Lakewood's older homes.
• Wrought iron for front yards and street-facing runs. Black iron—or an iron-and-cedar combination—reads correctly against brick and stone, keeps sightlines open the way the conservation guidelines prefer, and holds up for decades.

We set cap and trim, picket spacing, and post caps to match the era of the house. On the Colonial Revival homes down toward Lower Lakewood, cleaner iron pickets tend to fit. On the heavier Tudors up in Lakewood Heights, a mix of cedar and iron often looks the most at home. That judgment is the difference between a fence that disappears into the property and one that fights it.

Every fence we build stands on galvanized-steel posts. Cedar posts rot from the ground up—and in a neighborhood where you may be fitting a fence between hundred-year-old landscaping, you do not want to be back digging out failed posts in five years. Steel posts stay plumb and carry the workmanship warranty.

Lakewood sits inside a City of Dallas conservation district, and that changes how you plan a street-facing fence. Conservation-district guidelines mostly govern what is visible from the public right-of-way—front yards and the street-side portion of corner lots. Backyard fencing behind the front building line is usually the simple part. The front is where you have to be deliberate.

What that means in practice:

• Front and street-facing fences are held to design expectations—material, height, and openness—and a project can require a Certificate of Appropriateness before work starts.
• Backyard privacy fences generally follow standard Dallas rules without district review.
• Corner lots get watched more closely, because two sides face the street.

Standard Dallas height rules still apply on top of the district: up to 4 feet in a front yard and up to about 8–9 feet behind the front building line for backyards, measured to grade. We read your specific lot—setbacks, corner exposure, where the front building line actually falls—before we quote, so you know up front whether your project needs a district review and how that affects the timeline. No guessing, no stop-work surprise halfway through.

The tree canopy is half of why people love Lakewood, and it is the single biggest thing that separates a Lakewood fence install from a suburban one. Those big oaks and pecans send roots straight through the yards along the streets nearest White Rock Lake. Trench a post line without thinking and you either wreck a root flare or hit a root so big the auger just stops.

Here is how we handle it:

• Hand-dig near trunks. Where a post lands close to a mature tree, we dig by hand instead of running an auger through the roots.
• Shift post spacing. We move posts a few inches to miss major structural roots rather than cut through them—your tree survives and your posts sit in solid ground.
• Rack and step to grade. Lakewood's lots roll. We rack cedar panels to follow the slope and step iron sections down a grade so the fence hugs the ground with no gaps and no awkward saw-toothing.

Established landscaping gets the same respect. On these lots there are often decades-old beds, low walls, and mature shrubs to work around. We plan the line to preserve what is already there.

We build the full range for Lakewood homes—period-appropriate and made to last.

Cedar and Wood Fencing

Board-on-board and shadowbox wood fence installation in Western Red Cedar, sized and detailed for Lakewood's older backyards. Custom cap and trim, multiple heights, and a stain to match the block.

Iron and Ornamental Fencing

Powder-coated iron fence installation for front yards and estate lines. Classic pickets and custom fabrication that fit Tudor and Colonial Revival fronts and satisfy the conservation district's preference for open sightlines.

Privacy Fencing

Solid privacy fence installation where you want a real screen out back—board-on-board cedar in 6 and 8 foot heights, built to close the gaps that a rolling Lakewood lot tends to create.

Pool and Safety Fencing

Code-compliant pool fence installation for Lakewood Estates and any yard with a pool—self-closing, self-latching gates in iron or aluminum that meet Dallas barrier requirements without looking industrial.

Automatic Gates

Driveway and entry automatic gate installation and repairs with keypad and remote access, built to match your fence and the front of the house.

Aluminum Fencing

Low-maintenance aluminum fence installation that carries the look of iron with less upkeep—a solid option for larger runs and pool surrounds.

We also handle repair and restoration on the aging fences these older homes tend to have—storm damage, rotted sections, and single failing runs rebuilt to match the existing line.

We serve all of Lakewood—Lakewood Heights, Lakewood Estates, Lower Lakewood, the Tokalon Park area, and out to White Rock Lake—plus neighboring Lake Highlands, Old East Dallas, and University Park. Every job is built on galvanized-steel posts, spec'd in Western Red Cedar where cedar fits, and backed by our 5-year workmanship warranty.

Call (469) 809-2424 or request a free estimate. We come out, read your lot against the conservation-district rules and the tree canopy, and give you a straight number for a fence that actually belongs in Lakewood.