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 300
anel screen may be ccnstructed by anygood carpenter who has well-seasoned wood to workwith. The wood should be about two and one-half inchesin width for a large screen. The two uprights of each panellook well reaching about two inches below the cross-piece at [26fi] HOW TO MAKE AND USE SCREENS. 267… … Fig. 59- Ebonized wood is undoubtedly the favorite wood, as itenhances the beauty of all sorts of decoration. The follow-ing is an excellent recipe for Ebonizing Wood, Thou oh a good carriage-maker can do better tiian anyamateur workman: Put a quarter of a pound of best sizein a stone pot, with…
Interior decoration · Home Economics
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