Our homes and their adornments, or, How to build, finish, furnish and adorn a home, containing practical instructions for the building of homes, interior decoration, wood carving, scroll sawing, house painting, window hangings, screens, curtains, window gardening, incidental decorations, decorative-art needle-work, and economic landscape gardening; to which is added a household compendium of new, practical and valuable recipes, the whole being designed to make happy homes for happy people
An American household manual by Almon C. Varney, published in Detroit in 1883, instructing middle-class homeowners in building, decorating, furnishing and gardening, with a closing recipe compendium. Wood-engraved plates mix architectural details — bracketed bay windows, cresting, iron finials, fence and grille patterns — with red-printed house views and diagrams of needlework, scroll-sawn panels and garden plans.
