Our homes and their adornments, or, How to build, finish, furnish and adorn a home, containing practical instructions for the building of homes, interior decoration, wood carving, scroll sawing, house painting, window hangings, screens, curtains, window gardening, incidental decorations, decorative-art needle-work, and economic landscape gardening; to which is added a household compendium of new, practical and valuable recipes, the whole being designed to make happy homes for happy people (1883)
Varney, Almon C. (Almon Clother), b. 1849 · Detroit, Mich. : J.C. Chilton · leaf 114
HOUSE. 105 DESIGN I.—A PRAIRIE HOUSE. In the accompanying engravings we have, perhaps,given a plan that may seem advisable for some of ourprairie readers to follow. There is hardly any one settling on the prairies who couldnot produce lumber sufficient to build a small shanty, butis deterred from… … Fig- 3- to waste material upon something that will be nearlyuseless then. It is to help this class of builders that ourdesigns are intended. Fig. 3 represents a simple cottage of only one room,which can be erected at a very trifling expense, even on theprairies where lumber is high and scarce, and…
Interior decoration · Home Economics
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