Is the colourbond white on its other side?

No its monument (charcoal)

You can’t get a cheaper DIY than paint. Maybe plant a white flowering climber.

Attach white shade cloth to your colorbond fence with eyelets in the shade cloth and rope. Bunnings have white shade cloth for $22.95 a linear metre.

And it’s a COLORBOND (R) 😬

I'm a little confused -- you already have a monument colourbond fence around your property , but the part around your pool you want white ? Is that correct ?

As bigreader says , white paint is pretty cheap -- cheaper than changing to white colourbond , or getting a wrap or similar .

Possibly ,you could do crisp white painted lattice screens or similar 'in front' of the fence , again stealing bigreaders idea you could grow a white flowering creeper or similar , you wouldn't really notice the monument .

Personally , if I've gone to the trouble and expense of having a pool , and want a white fence around it , I'd change to a white colourbond as it will generally wear better , but $200 of white paint will give you an idea and buy you a few years .

Yep thats right, wanting it white around the pool as we like that look and think the plants will pop more.

in terms of a white creeper, what are you thinking? star jasmine? wanted to go for a palm springs look with cactus etc

what type of paint would be best? just exterior? thanks

As far as paint goes , a quick google search says that water based acrylic is as good as anything , unless it is going rusty ( where you need a galv primer etc ) .

You can still have a Palm Springs look with dark fencing. Plants do pop better against the dark. Leave the fences as is and put your money into more mature plants. You want see the fence then.

Thats great, thank you for your help :)

Plants do pop better against dark colours, but I thought Palm Springs has sparser plantings and white or pastels. Though I like Bigreader's second pic, the fence isn't a feature at all and there is enough white elsewhere to provide the desired vibe.

Black and dark colours recede, white is much more visible. If you go white, you may find the following issues: hard to keep clean, more "in your face", and reflectes the glare. Drive around your local area and check out dark vs light coloured fences.

Colorbond isn't the most glamorous of fencing materials so you kind of want it to be unobtrusive. That's only going to happen with monument and not white. If you want a white "Palm Springs" fence then use a different material.

Yeh was thinking something to put over it but im not sure what i could use

Keeping in mind you want something cheap, do you have pics or a plan, because maybe you could simply plant most of the fence for an unobtrusive backdrop and do one length as a feature? I agree with C P that colour alone won't do it with a metal fence. If you go for something in front, you want a pattern that is reminiscent of MCM and breezeblocks, but that might be too busy for a backdrop for cacti, more of a feature on its own perhaps. Ideally I think a plain light rendered finish as a backdrop for dessert plantings. Either way it's not exactly going to be cheap.

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