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 387
t;it can be lined with zinc, and filled in around the pots withmoss, if desirable. A strong wire stand, set on castors, is 330 OUR HOMES AND THEIR ADORNMENTS. very handy, as it can be moved around, and is moreoverornamental. The illustrations given in this department are intendedto suggest the… … Fig- 77- window is wanting, and drops a hint as to how an ivy maybe concealed behind a mirror, with its graceful loops hang-ing down on each side, and a small portion j ust peeping intothe glass. The cut on page 331 shows how the scroll-saw may beemployed in window gardening. The lambrequin at…
Interior decoration · Home Economics
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