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Title: American homes and gardens
Identifier: americanhomesgar61909newy (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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The dining-room is carried out in the Colonial style larger surface from that in a small one, and that the color becomes lighter and lighter as it dries thoroughly, and, again, that the weathering will make it somewhat darker as it grows older. Do not let the finish coat dry too quickly, or it will crack. A gradual setting is always the best. If you are obliged to put it on during the summer season and a blister- ing hot day is suck- ing the water too rapidly out of it, hang damp old sails or burlap in front of such portions as are drying. Only lay out an amount that can be covered in the time you have at your disposal, not leaving off in the center of a plain surface unbroken by angles or wooden projections. If you employ a mortar with no lime in it, such as many masons prefer, remember this takes longer to dry than that to which the lime has been added. The house used to illustrate this article very ably expresses the economic use of stucco as a means in remodeling and transforming an old house. Mr. C. La Verne Butler, hav- ing found himself possessed of an old farmhouse at South Framingham, Massachusetts, saw the possibilities it pos- sessed and immediately took up the task of its transforma- tion with the excellent results shown in the photograph herewith presented.
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