He adds: “For better or worse, the image of the suburban house, complete with a white picket fence and a backyard of one’s own, is permanently etched in our minds. ...

“When I was growing up, the white picket fence meant harmony with your house, your family, your spouse. Everybody wanted a house with a picket fence.” But that could be any fence.

- Terry Lindsley-Barton calls her home at 124 East Avenue in the village of Minoa "my dream house with the white picket fence." The eat-in kitchen is her favorite room.

As more residents opt to rent instead of own, the American Dream is evolving The house with the white picket fence is not for everyone, because of money or lifestyle.

A simple standard white picket fence works well with a colonial home. On most picket fences, the posts are spaced between six and eight feet apart. I like eight-foot spacing for the most efficient ...

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 ...

Meanwhile, a stand-alone single-family house will run you about $2,499,250—making townhomes here 81.46% cheaper. A newly constructed townhome in Raleigh, NC (like the ones here), can give you an ...