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 174
teracts the effect of con-trast of old and new work. If porticoes, verandas, cornice, verge-boards, or bracketsare to be added, great care must be used to make the out- ALTERATIONS AND ADDITIONS. 151 lines of old and new work blend, as it frequently happensthat such additions present anything but a… … Fig. 28. If additions are to be made to brick buildings, the newwall must be joined to the old by cutting a vertical groovein the old wall four inches deep, and broad enough to receivethe brick of the new wall, as when the courses of the newwall are locked into the old, brick for brick, there will…
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