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 322
Fig- 63. supporting an antique jar or other bric-a-brac, is often veryappropriate, as is also a neat holder for whisp or brush, the^ebeing valuable adjuncts to any hall. HOW TO FURNISH ROOMS. 287 Where the hall is small, a mirror framed in such a wayas to admit of pegs for hats and coats is,… … Fig. 64. priate as can be wished. Fig. 63 gives a very pretty design.Such a design may be cut out with a scroll-saw or by your 288 OUR HOMES AND THEIR ADORNMENTS. own carpenter, and ebonized according to the recipe givenin this work, and furnished with a mirror, at little cost.Ebonized wood for…
Interior decoration · Home Economics
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