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 114
ADDITION TO PRAIRIE HOUSE. 107 are ready to proceed with the planking, which any one cando who can saw off a board and drive a nail. For roofing, use saturated tar paper, which is manu-factured expressly for it, and is for sale in all Western towns.The cost is about one-fourth that of shingles; it… … Fig 5. We are like an architectural gentleman who once wentinto ecstacies over blinds. We have nothing rebutting toshow; it is a blind subject; but we think the crowning gloryof any house, large or small, is a veranda, or as the girl calledit, our folkss stoop. So much for Fig. 3. Now we will…
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