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 298
upon a gilded rod. The top of an easel can often be decorated with somescarf or piece of stuff which has been in the house unusedfor years. CORRECT rilfXOIPLES OF TASTE. 205 Pkinciples of Taste. If a lady can give sufficient thought to the subject, anddecide upon some good guiding rules, she can… … GfiafTrf^ IX. SCREENS.—HOW TO MAKE THEM.—MATERIALS.—HOW TO USESCREENS TO ADVANTAGE.—HOW TO MAKE SCREENS.—HOW TO EBONIZE WOOD.—PAINTED SCREENS.—HOW TOUSE DISCARDED MATERIAL TO ADVANTAGE IN COVER-ING PANELS OF SCREENS.—EMBROIDERED SCREENS.—HOW TO MAKE THE FRAMES.
Interior decoration · Home Economics
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