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 165
0 pieces, 4x4 in., 9 ft. long, forveranda posts; and 7 pieces, 2x8 in., 10 ft. long, for floorjoists of cook-room. This includes all the framing lumberrequired in the frame-work, and is not more than twothousand feet board measure, which would cost $15.00 perthousand, or $30.00 The covering boards… … cm*** PLAN OF SUMMER COTTAGE. 145 required at a cost of $20.00. 700 ft. of roofing boards,planed on one side, sound but not necessarily free fromknots, will cost £9.00. 5000 shingles for main roof andkitchen, at $4.00 per thousand, $20.00. The flooring, ofpine or spruce, matched and laid in the…
Interior decoration · Home Economics
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