Not everyone aspires to a quiet life in suburbia. But for those who do, it’s easy to describe them as desiring “a white picket fence” kind of existence. This particular type of property border has ...

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 ...

The Berlin Wall fell in November 1989. One of the world's infamous fences, it prevented free travel between East Berlin and West Berlin. And with an average height of about 12 feet, it provided the ...

The Berlin Wall fell in November 1989. One of the world's infamous fences, it prevented free travel between East Berlin and West Berlin. And with an average height of about 12 feet, it provided the ...

A St. Petersburg couple saw the potential in "the worst house in the neighborhood" and turned it into the home of their dreams. When Spencer and Dawne Bowen married in July 1992, the bridegroom asked ...

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Anyone who tends to get annoyed over the appearance of either networking cables or just plain electrical cords. Can now have the Leave it to Beaver solution, just slip a white picket fence around them ...

White picket fence. That's the kind of life my mother always dreamed about. "From the time I was 16, all I wanted was your father and a home," she tells me. "All I've ever wanted was a family." This ...

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