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 243
cts of small figures render them the mostsuitable for wall-papers. Of the numerous changes and improvements in all de-partments of art, none is more remarkable than the rapidadvance made in wall decorations and paper-hangings.Wall-papers, with humming-birds and gigantic roses on asea-greenish… … GHAPTER jj># HINTS ON THE CHOICE OF PAPERS.—WHAT SHADES TO SE-LECT.—HARMONY OF COLORS.—SELECTING PAPER FORDIFFERENT ROOMS.—THE DADO.
Interior decoration · Home Economics
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