or you could build a fence yourself. We decided a picket fence was a good cost-effective way to go. If you have saved wood scraps over the years from various DIY projects, you might be in luck!

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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 ...