You can’t beat a picket fence for good looks. Today, though, the traditional white picket fence, once made of wood, is likely now to be vinyl, giving homeowners a surprisingly wood-like ...

HIGHLAND >> A Highland homeowner is appealing a decision by the Historic and Cultural Preservation Board ordering her to paint the white vinyl picket fence in her front yard brown. Janet Nicholson ...

This vinyl picket fence by @duramax_fences will never need paint or touch-ups and can easily be rinsed off with water when needed. When shopping for vinyl fencing , look for 100 percent pure vinyl.

A white picket fence was easy shorthand for fictional families in film and on television: Upper middle-class, prosperous, mannered. Neighborhoods wanted to reflect the kind of wholesomeness ...

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Like the white picket fence, the stainless steel fence — prevalent in New York neighborhoods densely populated by Asian homeowners — evokes a sense of making it, but it’s flashier.

Beginning in the late 1940s, the white picket fence became synonymous with the American Dream. Lambert / Hulton Archive / Getty Images In little Taylor, Mississippi, outside Oxford, a developer ...