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 122
Fig- 8. any, in vermilion. The effect, if the house is standingalone, with trees and shrubbery around, will be pleasing.So much for the exterior. Fig. 8 shows how the rooms are placed on first floor,the porch opening into a lobby and from this either into DESIGN OF COTTAGE. 113 living-room or… … Fig. 9. The small room marked coal could, if thought advis-able, be opened into the kitchen and used for a store-room.A pantry of ample size will be found convenient, havingshelves on three sides, and also a good closet off from living- 114 OUR HOMES AND THEIR ADORNMENTS. room, and one under…
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