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Title: American homes and gardens
Identifier: americanhomesgar81911newy (find matches)
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture, Domestic; Landscape gardening
Publisher: New York : Munn and Co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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292 AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS August, 1911 to use it for the spool rack, so about a third of the distance is correct. This piece is first covered with the cretonne and then a row of nails is driven in to serve as spool hold- ers. If thin wire nails with small heads are used you will not need to file them off, but paint or gild them, to pre- vent rust. An excess of straight lines is wearisome, so if you can it will be restful to have some of the corners rounded off, and some of the edges sawed into curving lines. The illus- tration of a sewing table illustrates the beauty of the curv- A simple frame for it will be made of two-inch square lumber, cut into lengths for the legs, with a brace of the same material six inches above the floor connecting the two pair of legs, and a cross-piece to connect them. For light work such a frame will last a lifetime and not jiggle. The top board must come over the edges of the box about two and a-half inches so as to give the whole a grace- ful appearance. The sliding drawer underneath will have to be made to fit the frame. The piece of lumber which edges the top
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A sewing table and a chest of drawers A sewing screen with adjustable shelf and pockets A chest of drawers and hat box ing line. The general idea is a box on legs to make it hand- ier to reach into, with a board top and a sliding sort of bin underneath which will pull out and in without disturbing the top of the table. The making of such a piece of furniture is a perfectly simple process. Its beauty will depend somewhat upon the size and shape of the box. If you wish to make it of a pack- ing box carefully select one at the grocery. After that it may be covered with cretonne, then lined and fastened to the frame. of this bin is two and a half inches wide and a half-inch thick. Small cleats of half an inch square are nailed to the sides for grooves for the bin to slide on. The bottom should be about half the size of the top and the sides must be sawed out to fit. The seams should be glued as well as nailed. Then the cretonne can be put on, and the inside finished with either white enamel paint or lining cambric. A knob to draw it out completes the article. The top and frame will look nicer if they are painted white and finished with enamel paint. Cutting Wood With Paper

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