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 116
ADDITION TO PRAIRIE HOUSE. 10; are ready to proceed with the planking, which any one cando who can saw off a board and drive a nail. For roofing, use saturated tar paper, which is manu-factured expressly for it, and is for sale in all Western towns.The cost is about one-fourth that of shingles; it… … o- We are like an architectural gentleman who once wentinto ecstacies over blinds. We have nothing rebutting toshow; it is a blind subject; but we think the crowning gloryof any house, large or small, is a veranda, or as the girl calledit, our folkss stoop. So much for Fig. 3. Now we will suppose…
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