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 128
he window-sills,the wall is sheathed with matched sheathing, and the sillcourse extended around over this and cut into panels withcross-bars in the manner shown in the elevation. Thewindow-casings connect with a band or belt course at the STORY- ANDA-HALF HOUSE. [ ] 9 caps, while the double window… … Fig 12. 120 OUR HOMES AND THEIR ADORNMENTS. The gable is divided by a band and shingled in the samemanner, as is also the end of veranda. On the top of the roof, over each gable, is placed aneat finial of wood, and the gables are finished with averge-board of unique design, placed immediately back…
Interior decoration · Home Economics
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