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 179
ws, 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 alterations that will be necessary depend largelyupon the construction and surroundings, and further sug-gestions would be… … Fi g- 3 In the accompanying cuts are represented two veryattractive designs of windows; one has a neat canopy topwith curved roof and verge-board supported on brackets oneach side and forming a fine outline; while at the bottom ofthe window is a small balcony projecting out from belowthe sill, with…
Interior decoration · Home Economics
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