ABOUT MICHAEL WATKINS
The Fence Guy of Louisville
In 2014 I started The Fence Guy of Louisville after coming back from working as a paramedic overseas. As I write this in 2024, I’m celebrating my tenth year building wood fences and gates in Louisville. When I started, my focus was always on striving to build quality projects.
Embracing good workmanship and the quality that results from it is still at the heart of what I do. Over the last several years I’ve also begun focusing on more of the design elements of built forms. By studying traditional joinery techniques, greater design possibilities have opened up for me to explore. The results of that exploration can be found on the pages of this website.
If a desire for quality guides workmanship, what is it that guides design? Obviously, a client's needs and desires take center stage, but I’ve been fortunate to have many clients give me “creative” license in many of the gate forms you’ll see here. What guides my design philosophy is the aspiration towards Beauty in built forms. This is a recent discovery of a path I’ve only begun to ascend. I’m looking forward to what results from the work of hands guided by quality workmanship and design inspired by the virtue of beauty.