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 ...

Despite all the work the wooden fence requires, he has no plans to remove it permanently. “It just goes with the house,” he says. Nor will he replace it with some of the newer white picket ...

When you think of fencing, the pristine white wood picket of the American Dream probably ... vice president of his family-owned Republic Fence Company in Chatsworth, adding that for guidance ...

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 ...

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.