An encyclopædia of cottage, farm, and villa architecture and furniture : containing numerous designs for dwellings from the cottage to the villa including farm houses, farmeries, and other agricultural buildings, several designs for country inns, public houses, and parochial schools, with the requisite fittings-up fixtures and furniture ; and appropriate offices, gardens and garden scenery ; each design accompanied by analytical and critical marks illustrative of the principles of archtiectural science and taste on whihc it is composed (1836)
Loudon, J. C. (John Claudius), 1783-1843 · London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans, and sold by John Weale, at the Architectural Library, High Holborn · leaf 1036
1811 nothing can exceed the strength and durability of these tiles, and from their appearancewe do not doubt it: they are also very smooth, and highly ornamental. Another descrip-tion of flooring tiles for halls, Mr. Peake of Tunstall informs us he has seen at LilliesHall, in Shropshire, of which… … plaster floors are in use for villas, which may either be painted in imitation of marble,or kept covered bv carpeting. In some cases the preferable mode is to paint the marginof the floor round the room in imitation of marble or other stone, or of oak, or of someother dark wood ; or to finish this…
Architecture, Domestic · Furniture
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