Title: American homes and gardens
Identifier: americanhomesgar71910newy (find matches)
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture, Domestic; Landscape gardening
Publisher: New York : Munn and Co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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Sideboard for a Colonial dining-room Low bookshelves Sideboard for an English dining-room cessity. In the Illustration the various needs of a library worker have been met in a clever arrangement of cabinet, bookshelves, drawer space and writing-table. The deco- rative details that leaded glass, drawer pulls and hinges lend to cabinet work have not been overlooked in this com- bination. In a college girl's room of quite tiny dimensions, a port- folio rack, bought in a department store, was changed into a writing-desk by fastening it to the wall and increasing the length of chain to allow one side to hang level. In the front of the rack a colored print was pasted as a decora- tion when the rack was closed against the wall. In bungalows of the cheaper type, with the wall posts and beams left exposed, there are numberless opportunities for original fittings of shelves for books and bric-a-brac, with and without the addition of doors. The contents of book shelves may be partially screened or entirely protected by a curtain, according to the way in which it is hung and the material of which it is made. Silk gauze showing a silk-woven pattern makes an artistic cur- tain, or a fancy net may be laid over a colored silk if some- thing more unique is desired. The new way of interlacing embroidery silk in a border pattern on a square-meshed lace is also attractive. A heavier material for more practical purposes can be found among the sun-fast colors that have lately been brought over from Scotland. These colors with their different weaves are so varied that one may select al- most any required weight and texture for any specific pur- pose, with the satisfaction of knowing that the expense put into them will be rewarded by durability. Perhaps the most popular expression of built-in furniture is the window and fireplace seats that one sees in houses of the olden time, and in others that are thoroughly up to date. Stone seats in the window recesses of ancient castles
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