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 175
outbreaking. The joints of courses in new work should belaid a little above the old to allow for settling. 152 OUR HOMES AND THEIR ADORNMENTS. New Roofs, Gables, etc. If roofs need relaying, where the building is good, slateroofs may be put on over the old shingles to good advantage,using longer… … Fig. 29. ful finish; and putting in a front gable v.ith neat tracer)and brackets. This plan can be carried out when a newroof becomes necessary, and its effect upon the generalappearance of the building will be excellent, and if ironcresting is put on, so much the better.
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