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 355
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… … Fig. 73. DRAPERY AND TOILET-STAND. 299 Two drawers for linen are placed in the bottom of thewardrobe, and the whole space is nearly, if not quite, ascapacious as a bureau or separate wardrobe. The doorsclose tightly so as to prevent dust from entering. Large pictures are out of place in a bed-room.…
Interior decoration · Home Economics
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