This section is from the book "Our Homes And Their Adornments", by Almon C. Varney. Also available from Amazon: Our Homes and Their Adornments.
These should have molded architraves or casings on doors and windows, of neat design, resting on plinth blocks at the floor. Back plaster under the windows, and cover this with a neat sunk panel, extending to the floor and finished with raised moldings.
Base boards should be paneled and finished with a neat design of raised moldings on the top. Exposed or projecting corners of plastering should be covered with turned beads of pine, extending four feet from base finished with neat turned design on each end.
Second-floor chambers finished same as main rooms, with architraves one inch narrower.
 
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