Our homes and their adornments; or, How to build, finish, furnish and adorn a home ... the whole being designed to make happy homes for happy people (1882)
Varney, Almon C. (Almon Clother), b. 1849 · Detroit, J. C.Chilton · leaf 110
OUB ANCESTORS. 103 the house was fiiiishecl,^—not in soft wood or hard wood, notin molded base or graceful architrave, but finished for suchcomforts as they needed. And the Mothers—all glory to their memory 1—theirfingers were busy in interior decoration—not in makingapplique work, not in painting… … Fig. 2. as much pleasure and exhibited as much pride in theirgraceful festoons of Ied-pepper pods and dried pumpkins, asdoes the modern woman in her richly ornamented portiereor lambrequin. Comfort never waited to be invited into such a house;she entered and took up her abode there. Little use…
Architecture, Domestic · Interior decoration · Home Economics
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