Matthew Peech shows how to build his farmhouse picket planter from treated pine fence pickets. He explains the material choice and how the design keeps the project low cost.

Matthew Peech cuts a fence picket into strips and assembles a large wooden snowflake. He explains how beginners can make the project with simple materials and basic woodworking tools.

Dear James: I think a picket fence would look good across my front and side yard. I have some saws and tools. Is this a project that the average DIYer can handle? — Jesse T. Dear Jesse: If you have ...

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 ...