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 44
are in better accord with the surroundings. PAINTING. 35 These criticisms apply with equal force to the subject ofinside finish. We never would paint anything white.Paint each room in one or more colors of delicate shades,neutral tints, with nothing having a gaudy appearance, butpresenting a quiet… … Ghaftee 111. ORNAMENTATION. — APPEARANCE OF A HOUSE.—SECRET OFATTRACTIVE BUILDINGS.—THE PLACE TO PUT ORNA-MENTS.—LITTLE EXPENSE WITH GOOD RESULTS.—THEFRONT ENTRANCE. —PORTICO.—CORNICE. — GABLE.
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