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 317
illiancy of color, although warm tones are admissible, buta leading up, as it were, to the richer hues and more elabo-rate adornments of the sheltered apartments. Ordinary halls are too small for much display, if herewere the place for display. Where the dimensions of the hall [285] 286 OUB HOMES… … supporting an antique jar or other bric-a-brac, is often very-appropriate, as is also a neat holder for whisp or brush, thesebeing valuable adjuncts to any hall. HOW TO FUBNISH BOOMS. 287 Where the hall is small, a mirror framed in such a wayas to aclinit of pegs for hats and coats is, perhaps, as…
Architecture, Domestic · Interior decoration · Home Economics
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