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 144
er pleasure. This cottage would probably cost near $1500 but acheaper one with the same rooms and conveniences couldscarcely be devised. -*♦*- DESIGN VII. In our illustration, Fig. 19, we give a perspective viewof a picturesque and most admirable exterior of a moderngothic-roofed story-and-a-half… … A PICTURESQUE GOTHIC HOUSE. 131 surrounding shrubbery. The clipped or hooded gables,trimmed with neat tracery and broad projections of roofand cornices, with wide veranda and canopy tops over thewindows, all do much toward making up the general formand graceful outline of the house. The first floor…
Interior decoration · Home Economics
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