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 172
ounteracts the effect of con-trast of old and new work. If porticoes, verandas, cornice, verge-boards, or bracketsare to be added, great care must be used to make the out- ALTERATIONS AND ADDITIONS. 151 lines of old and new work blend, as it frequently happensthat such additions present anything… … Fig. 28. If additions are to be made to brick buildings, the newwaU must be joined to the old by cutting a vertical groovein the old wall four inches deep, and broad enough to receivethe brick of the new wall, as when the courses o£ the newwall are locked into the old, brick for brick, there will…
Architecture, Domestic · Interior decoration · Home Economics
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