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...A winding staircase and worn floorboards in the sitting room gleam as though freshly waxed; curtains in period fabrics flutter as you pass....
...After 14 years of living with my crappy Victorian floorboards – with gaps you could park a bike in – I have decided to carpet my upstairs bedroom and embrace late-middle age....
...I’m in one of the apartments, which has floorboards painted a soothing grey, a view on to the canal and furniture that ranges from the 1930s onwards but has settled most comfortably in the 1970s....
...Degas, meanwhile, showed exquisite young ballerinas struggling with their exercises on vertiginous bare floorboards, or choreographed as silken arabesques — “The Dance Class” (1874), “The Rehearsal” (c1874...
...Instead of the ubiquitous Provençal red terracotta tiles in the rest of the house, Cézanne installed neutral floorboards, and mixed the colour of the blue-grey walls himself to absorb rather than reflect...
...The floorboards are giving way underneath the Chinese property companies. On Monday, share prices throughout the sector fell by the most this year....
...A cat luxuriates on the floorboards, but a naked bulb and exposed pipes near the ceiling hint at a cramped life in a basement flat....
...It’s based on the Disneyland theme ride, previously translated into a 2003 Eddie Murphy vehicle that barely set anyone’s floorboards creaking....
...But an object I love is a dining table by furniture maker Allan Lutge, who works in a Cape Dutch aesthetic with the contemporary twist of using reclaimed pear wood from floorboards and ceilings....
...Glen said there was “a question mark over the sustainability of this growth and the challenges that lie beneath the floorboards”....
...Sun angled down from a high clerestory of windows across the ancient floorboards....
...Its original features remain unchanged: tall sash windows frame the lush garden while inviting light to flood onto the white painted walls and floorboards....
...At high tide, you can feel the lapping of seawater through the floorboards. In 1953, Thomas left Laugharne for a performance tour in the US and never returned....
...Based in an old bakery, it combines a saloon up front and a conservatory at the back, mixing tiled walls, glass and flora with leather banquettes, Persian rugs and wooden floorboards....
...I wonder how hard it would be to knit a fur rug to cover the claw marks in the floorboards. Frieda Hughes is an artist, poet and author....
...When a company is down it is unlikely to fall through the floorboards....
...With a barrel-vaulted brick roof, a carved antique door for a dining table, painted wooden floorboards and a travertine terrace that seems to float on the sea, it’s a recluse’s paradise (and now available...
...The installation is an Escher-like haunted house, with ceramic bin bags, skeletal hands bursting from floorboards and references to 1990s teen pop culture in the form of Pogs, dream-catchers and collaged...
...Pursuant to a search warrant, IRS agents recovered the bitcoin from Zhong’s house in Gainesville, Georgia, some of which was stored on a simple computer hidden in a popcorn tin and in a safe beneath the floorboards...
...Placing a sheet of paper on top of heavily grained wooden floorboards or spools of unwound thread, Ernst would rub with a soft lead pencil....
...But estate agents don’t tend to have cash, confidential documents and assassin-grade guns stashed under the floorboards....
...Stained glass windows throw blocks of simple colour across wooden floorboards. Alfresco bathtubs overlook stunning views....
...In the areas where the carpet hadn’t worn through to the floorboards, more stains had turned much of the blue a murky brown....
...I loved the austerity of it all, though not the floorboard-creaking creep to the lavatory at 3am....
...“The more idiosyncratic bets there are, the more people become concerned there’s stuff beneath the floorboards.”...
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