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 132
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… … Fig. 14- From the parlor is a room for library 4, 11x14 ft., withdoor to sitting-room 6, 15x16 ft., wTith double window inthe rear, also door to hall and to kitchen 7, 9x16 ft., andback of this, pantry 8, 5x9 ft. On the second floor there are three good rooms, one over 124 OUR HOMES AND THEIR…
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