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 159
parlor, or sitting-room, 13ixl6 ft., openingfrom the rear of which is a toilet-room L, containing wash-basin, with hot and cold water, and a closet, and K, a clothesor general closet. The dining-room E, 12x16 ft., is reached by side en-trance, hall, or rear parlor, and the three main rooms andhall… … Fg 25 AN ELEGANT BRICK RESIDENCE. Hi throughout these rooms. Each of these rooms is providedwith a grate and elegant mantles of slate. Connecting with the dining-room is the kitchen H,12x16 ft., from which opens a commodious pantry G, stair-way I to cellar, rear stair-way J to second floor,…
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