Beeton's housewife's treasury of domestic information : comprising complete and practical instructions on the house and its furniture, artistic decoration economy, toilet, children, etiquette, domestic and fancy needlework, dressmaking and millinery, and all other household matters : with every requisite direction to secure the comfort, elegance, and prosperity of the home : a companion volume to "Mrs. Beeton's book of household management" : profusely illustrated (1879)
Beeton, Mrs. (Isabella Mary), 1836-1865 · London ; New York : Ward, Lock & Co., Warwick House, Salisbury Square, E.C. · leaf 57
ow, andfreouenfill-ventilated. Being directly under the tiles or slates that coyer therooT seiara ed from them by lath and plaster only, such rooms are extremelycold in winter and painfully warm in summer. The heat in summer may bemodined by a thick coating of whitewash, a white surface rejecting… … that it affords, it is better to dispense with italtogether, gaining in the number of the roomsby the extension of the house laterally or to therear. Indeed, as it is always desirable that thesleeping apartments should be as lofty as pos-sible, it is better in a gable end to have one loftyroom as…
Home Economics · Interior decoration
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