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 149
been spread out insimple embellishments over the whole structure rather thanconcentrated upon an elaborate cornice. 134 OUR HOMES AND THEIR ADORNMENTS. This design, we are well aware, is not altogether new,neither did we intend it should be; it is simply a study ofthe old gothic forms of… … Fig. 21, it will have the effect of strength and solidity combined withits outward appearance. This building might be erected of brick or wood, in whichcase the plan of windows and doors might vary slightlyfrom that shown in the illustration. We should, however,recommend the use of stone, when the…
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