Picket Fence Guiding Principles for Manassas, VA Homes

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Many girls when they were younger always dreamed of a little house with a white picket fence. A picket fence is perfect for farmhouses and cottage style homes in Manassas, VA. A Victorian home surrounded by a picket fence gives the property an elegant and romantic finish to offset Manassas, VA homes.

Basic Picket Fence Guidelines

A typical picket fence is a series of posts which are connected by horizontal rails and then filled with vertical slats along the horizontal rails. Normally the slats or pickets are around 2 ¼ inches to 3 inches wide and cut square at the top. Height is usually 3 inches to 3 ½ inches but should be proportional to the structure and area it is enclosing. A small cottage in Manassas, VA might look better with a shorter fence in height, while a much larger home would look better with a 4-foot high fence.

If your goal is privacy screening a standard height of 5-feet, average eye level, is usually a good choice. While pickets are generally spaced one picket width apart, closer spacing increases screening for greater privacy. Wider spacing allows greater visibility yet still provides a physical barrier for your Manassas, VA home.

It is best if you leave a space between the picket bottoms and the ground so it can be easily mowed without harming your picket fence in Manassas, VA. What’s more, keeping your picket fence up off the ground will give you additional years to enjoy your fence by reducing conditions for wood rot.

Many homeowners in Manassas, VA prefer to dress up their picket fences giving it a more ornamental or architectural effect. This can be done simply by cutting the picket tops into points, semicircles, or a more historic design such as diamonds or spears. These designs will also shed water.

Adding a picket fence gate to the front entrance with a walkway leading up to the front porch and door of your Manassas, VA home is another way to offset your fence. A gate can either be invisible by making it identical to the picket fence making it more private and harder to find or more visible to stand out so visitors will see it at a glance.

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