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 178
Fig. 27. J. HESS, Architect. ALTERATIONS AND ADDITIONS. 153 Improving Windows. The appearance of many good, substantial houses, espe-cially in the country, is positively ruined by the low, square,unsightly, small-light windows. This can be remedied at a … Fig- 30. very light expense by tearing out the frames, cutting outfrom the top to the desired height for modern windows, andreplacing the old many-light sash with new ones holding notmore than four lights. The same treatment would improvemany door-ways. 154 OUR HOMES AND THEIR ADORNMENTS. The…
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