If natural use Cedar. It will go silver and hold up for years. If to
be painted go with treated material.

From a design perspective if you wanted to go up scale, I would repeat
the railing you have on the porch, with the top and bottom rail and
inner pickets, and not go with a picket style. Also, at the corners,
and at gate openings, do larger box columns with the little stand out
detail like you have on the big box columns on the porch edges. Slope
the top of the top rail so you won't get standing water and build out
a cap with sloped pyramin cap on the corner box columns. You could
even tie the rail back into the stair rail if a walkway aligned
properly.

I'd be glad to sketch up my ideas if you want. Could be really nice.

BW


On Mar 6, 5:43*am, jtpr wrote:
We want to put a picket fence up on our property. *The purpose is to
simply define the property line. *There are no animals or children to
keep out or in. *There will be gardening going on inside of it and
likely growing over some of it. *About 150' of length, 3' high.

The question is maintenance. *The property is located in an historic
area of the NH seacoast across the street from the ocean. *But the
house style is 1930's bungalow, most of the others being from the 16
or 17 hundreds. *Obviously the most pleasing aesthetic choice *would
be the wooden fence painted white. *But I am over maintaining
something like that at this stage of my life. * So we have looked at
vinyl and metal. *Vinyl seems to choice we are going with now, but I'm
not totally crazy about it. *Then I thought, it really doesn't need to
be white, could be natural. *But I'm not sure what the ramifications
of that would be.

So, I'm looking for suggestions about this.

Here is a link to pics of the house:

http://jtpryan.smugmug.com/gallery/4...62605902_TDxPe

Thanks for any ideas,

-Jim