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 115
NMENTS. inch boards @ S30 per thousand, $24; 4 sills, 6x9, and 4beams, 6x6, 10 rafters, and 12 joists, $6; 2 panel doors@$2.50 each, and 3 windows @ $1.50 each, $9.50; nailsand paper for roofing, $10.. Total, $49.50. Here is a cost of about fifty dollars; and any man ofordinary ingenuity can do all… … Fig. 4. lay them upon the sills; then securely nail two boardsperpendicularly at each corner of the sills. Use sixteen-foot boards, cut in the middle; this willmake the building seven feet in the clear. Now cut fourstanchions seven feet long; and with the aid of one personyou can raise the beams…
Interior decoration · Home Economics
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