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This beautiful fence from @abela_design_and_construction was installed professionally, but you can achieve a similar look with a DIY version for just the price of the lumber. Pressure-treated wood is ...

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 named ...

SOUTHINGTON, Conn. — Chipped paint and mildew be damned. The first job of the day was still a rare treat. Check out those New England-style post caps, the fence salesman thought, that classic ...