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 65
ther door. Such adoor, if properly made, will stand without warping. Thepine, being better to keep true than any known wood,makes an excellent foundation to hold the hard-wood. Another plan in common use for making a hard-wooddoor, two and one-fourth inches thick, for instance, is tomake two doors… … CxFmPTRI^ VII. SOMETHING MORE DURABLE.—BRICK AND STONE HOUSES.—THEIR COST.—VENEER BRICK AND STONE WORK.—HOWTO PREVENT BRICK WALLS FROM SWEATING.—STONETRIMMINGS FOR BRICK HOUSES.
Interior decoration · Home Economics
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