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 135
126 OUR HOMES AND THEIR ADORNMENTS. the front, adding much to the dimensions and appearance ofthe room as well as to the external effect. Opposite this isan open grate, facing the window, whose cheering flame canbe seen from the street by the passers-by, if the blinds areopen. Who is there, that… … A Fig. 15. E is the library of ample size, with a square bay-windowon the front and a window out to veranda; it also has agrate and mantel with a closet in one corner of the room onthe side of the grate. D is the sitting or main living room. It is large, andconnects with hall and parlor, with door…
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