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 351
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. … Fig, 7 i. BEDSTEAD AND DRAPERY. 297 A recent writer on this matter says of the bed-roomtable: Quite an inexpensive one may be made from a dry-goods box three feet high, four wide, and two and a halffeet deep, with four blocks of wood, one inch thick and fourinches square, nailed beneath each…
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