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 117
he can do, as shown in plan, Fig. 5, whichconsists of his first erection with a lean-to of one bed-room,a pantry, and a wood-shed. This can be erected upon thesame principle as the first. The reason we recommendedplanking and clapboards in preference to studs and clap-boarding, is that any one can… … Fig. 6. suit the taste of the occupants. Again we will suppose thatthe lapse of years has brought round the time when ourfriend wishes to again enlarge his house. If he has followed our former plans, he will do so, asshown in Figs. 6 and 7. This consists of an upright partadded to his former…
Interior decoration · Home Economics
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