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 183
158 OUR HOMES AND THEIR ADORNMENTS. Ice can be preserved in simple, double-walled houses,with the space between filled with sawdust, and the icepacked in closely and covered well with sawdust. The … Fg- 33- accompanying engraving and description will, however,give a better idea of how to combine the ice-house andpreservatory. The novel feature of this plan is the placing of the pre-servatory under the mass of ice, from which it is separatedby the floor made of plates and galvanized iron. It is…
Interior decoration · Home Economics
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