Everybody wanted a house with a picket fence.” But that could be any fence. How did a white wooden fence become synonymous with the American dream? In a piece for Smithsonian tracking the ...

And since it was new construction, she was able to order it to her specifications, requesting wood floors throughout ... complete with a white picket fence and a backyard of one’s own, is ...

While traditional wooden picket fences are the standard ... Turn the traditional white picket fence on its side. This is an ...

Wood fencing, while visually pleasing ... and two smiling kids standing in front of the big house with the white picket fence — that picket fence is obviously made of wood.

But I’ve never really seen the point of having that much space, that much surface area for a lawn and a pool and a playground, bordered by that quintessential white picket fence. But isn’t that the ...

DatingNews.com, which covers dating industry news, surveyed 3,000 singles to find out how many people want a traditional white picket fence lifestyle and the nationwide locations where “old ...

In a more quirky valuation of what Naperville has to offer, the site DatingNews.com lauded the city as a quintessential place in Illinois for enjoying a “white picket fence lifestyle.” ...

In Colonial times, a mixture of lime and water protected the wood pickets and gave the fences their traditional white color. Getty Images Blame the Cold War for doing in the picket fence.