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 353
e bed is a second cover of chintz or dimity, alsotrimmed with lace or frills. Brackets made with the scroll-saw can be used toadvantage to hold books, curiosities, china, etc. The toilet-table or wash-stand affords an excellent chance for the dis- 298 OUR HOMES AND THEIR ADORNMENTS. play of taste,… … new style wardrobe and bedstead combined, may be used toexcellent advantage. Our illustration gives all necessarydetails. It will be seen that the wardrobe is located behindthe head of the bedstead. At each end is a door openinginto the wardrobe, and hooks are attached to a piece whichslides in and…
Interior decoration · Home Economics
Internet Archive · Getty Research Institute · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.
![An illustration from [Catalog] (1879)](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-catalog00ehma-11-58.webp)
![An illustration from [New illustrated catalogue of furniture and general price list] (1875)](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-newillustratedca00lave-148-381.webp)
