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 418
of water, as samples have been exposed on theoutside of buildings and immersed in water for one vearwith no evil effects. I It would be difficult to produce a material which im-parts richer effects, and lends an air of more refinement to aroom. Angles and joints offer no opposition to its… … LINCRUSTA WALTON. LINCRUSTA-WALTON. 359 Its cost is about that of the finer qualities of wall-paper,but its durability and elegance recommend it, and it is muchmore economical in the long run. A manufactory has re-cently been established in Connecticut, and its general usein all the better class of…
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