Identifier: ourhomestheirado01varn (find matches)
Title: Our homes and their adornments;
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Varney, Almon Clother, 1849- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Home economics Interior decoration
Publisher: Detroit, Mich., J. C. Chilton & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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is among the best, if not the best,room in the house, except, perhaps, the family sitting-room. Dkapery for Toilet-Stand. On the opposite page we give an illustration showinghow the commonest and plainest bed-room may be renderedbeautiful and attractive by the aid of a little taste and cheapmaterial. The toilet-stand may be a cheap table, with ashelf erected on the top for toilet articles, and a brackethigher up for perfume articles, etc. Oil-cloth of any desired color may cover the table, cut inany shape to suit the fancy, the edges being bound with braidto correspond. The shelves and brackets may be covered tocorrespond with the table, and the w^hole draped with muslinor other material, edged with lace, or trimmed to suit the 300 OUR HOMES AND THEIR ADORNMENTS. taste, or in harmony with the other adornments of theroom. Shelves may be made under the table, and a curtain ofcoarser material suspended from its ed<T;es conceals them.These shelves may be used for shoes, slippers, etc.
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