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Title: Our doors and windows : how to decorate them
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Cutting and DeLaney (Firm)
Subjects: Windows in interior decoration Latticework Doors Interior decoration
Publisher: Buffalo : Cutting and DeLaney
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er, Moorish pattern. The platform above mentioned is covered with a dullred carpet to match an appropriate ground work for the couch resting on thesame which, 3x6 feet, is broad and low and over which is a rug which falls to thefloor. The couch is furnished with six round bolsters, each three feet in length,covered with Moorish squares in the center, filled out on the ends with velourcolor in harmony with the squares. Four of. these bolsters are on the back of thecouch resting against the wall, and two at the side, placed one above another,affording a rest for the back. Besides these bolsters, three downy pillows areused, two feet square, covered with various shades of velours. Fastened directlyover the couch is a Moorish cabinet. The frame-work of the door shows threemedium-sized arches, backed by Mosaic stained glass. The glass is illuminatedat night by a lamp kept burning in the cabinet. This, with the Moorish lampshung in the arches, makes a charming effect.—Ho?ne, Philadelphia.
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No. 17. DOORWAY DECORATION. _ This illustration shows a cabinet made of lattice-work placed over a doorwaydesigned to fill the entire space between the top of the door and the ceiling Inthis instance, the cabinet is supposed to be three feet six inches in length andabout two feet in height and projects from the wall about eight inches STAIR WORK. FROM the turned balusters it is but a step to the light screen, which I advo-cated last month, and wish to call more attention to here.Spindle work is only expensive when it requires much time in the putting to-gether of the various parts ; the spindles themselves are only turned sticks ofwood, and here again the same argument can be urged for variety as in the case ofthe baluster. It is not well, of course, to allow your spindle to be of too greatlength, as it is naturally a slender bit of wood and easily broken, so that horizontaldivisions are a necessity to the construction. In much of the expensive work andin all of the ancient Egyptian s

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