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 343
Fig. 65. people can render an apartment very attractive and at thesame time comfortable, with small outlay. The mantel is a feature that never escapes the eye of avisitor; its contents therefore should receive attention. It 19 290 OUR HOMES AND THEIR ADORNMENTS. is the place for the display of… … Fig. 66. afford a plain mantel of wood which they may render veryattractive by the following method:— Take panels, or squares of glass, and if one is not artist STYLE OF LOUNGE. 291 enough to venture on original designs, select pleasing pict-ures of birds, flowers, grains, children, animals, or…
Interior decoration · Home Economics
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