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 131
the center of theroom. For the difference in cost we would not recommenda house with rooms so low. The outside, while decidedlyplain, possesses something that commands attention. 122 OUR HOMES AND THEIR ADORNMENTS. The broad, sheltering cornice gives to it the appearanceof ample protection from sun… … Fig. 3- ings, such as belong only to those who have worked hard andperhaps long to come into possession of such a place. The outside walls are covered with clapboards, and theroofs, including hood and porticoes, are all shingled. ARRANGEMENT OF ROOMS. 123 The first floor plan, Fig. 13, shows; 1 and…
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