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 148
., a good closet for its accommodation being made (132) A SOLID GOTHIC HOUSE. 133 under the staircase. The kitchen E is llxl2i ft.; bed-roomF, 7JxlO ft., with closet J, off from it; pantry G, 8x10 ft.;hall H; wood-shed I, 15x15 ft.; closets J, J, and veranda V.On the second floor are commodious… … Figr. 20. K is the balcony on tower, and a narrow stair-way, withrail, leads from main hall up to the tower observatory. The general form of the outer walls is such as admits ofa picturesque outline in the elevation, and in the treatmentof the exterior finish the expenditure has been spread out…
Interior decoration · Home Economics
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