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 345
2 OUR HOMES AND THEIR ADORNMENTS. with a coat of paint in shades of blue* lavender, or sea-green.The right side of the glass then bears a fair resemblance toa china painting. These panels are easily and inexpensivelymade, and when fastened on the wood-work, with narrowblack strips or moldings, have… … Fig. 6a Small hanging cabinets, with doors and a shelf above,may take the place of costlier furniture, and indeed, theymay serve to set off the larger pieces to good effect. An or-dinary carpenter can make them, and if the panels of thedoors are decoratedwith nothing better than transfer…
Interior decoration · Home Economics
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