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 349
if all or a part of these can be afforded, add more to thecosiness of the room, than the bed. It is a good plan topurchase a plain bedstead and devote more to the other fur-niture. 296 OUR HOMES AND THEIR ADORNMENTS. The Dressing Bureau. Where it can be afforded, a bureau is very desirable;… … Unless there is a good closet or a table with drawers, the bu-reau is almost a necessity. Marble tops are to be con-demned where articles of glass or fine china come in contactwith them.
Interior decoration · Home Economics
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