To gain more space upstairs and make the height more proportional to the volume, they raised the ceiling from 8 feet to 10 feet and arched it to follow the roof gables.
Iron tension rods spaced every 6 feet suspend burly 10-inch-square ceiling timbers from trusses above, freeing the work space from vertical support beams.
This high-teens number is likely to plummet if negotiations on the fiscal cliff start to resemble the debt ceiling fiasco from August 2011 and tax hikes look more likely than not.
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His personal study, which was designed to house a 17-by-28-foot Persian rug from the late 1800s, is filled from floor to ceiling with valuables, ranging from gilded fore-edge books to war memorabilia, a brandy bottle left in his guest house by Kennedy Onassis, and even what he says is Sitting Bull's pipe.
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In the couple's mock-Tudor house in Scarsdale, New York, which they share with their three kids, stalactites of peeling paint droop down from the kitchen ceiling, and linoleum curls up from the floor.
The first notice ordered the removal of asbestos from ceiling spaces in Wards 11 and 12.
The undulating form of the ceiling was built from local oak based on traditional boat construction principles.
The lobby is dominated by a huge granite fireplace column with broad ceiling beams radiating from its top.
But Simmons keeps a bedroom for them, draped in pink saris from ceiling to floor, fit for Indian princesses.
The car is suspended inside a giant carrying harness, similar to ones that hang from ceiling girders in other Honda auto plants.
Vatican police officers gave evidence that when they searched Mr Gabriele's study in his home, they found one large cupboard stacked from floor to ceiling with a disorderly jumble of documents taken from the Pope's office over a period of years.
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The second important development from the debt ceiling battle is that the speaker has managed to distance himself from the tea party Republicans even while he champions most of their views.
Inside, cones of brightly colored merino wool dangle from the ceiling above knitting machines.
Or whenever a party occurs on Facebook, a lone, half-deflated balloon could descend from the ceiling.
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Their headlamps illuminate soda-straw rock drippings from the ceiling, and rippled flowstone on the cave walls.
Look at the gleaming copper pots hanging from a ceiling rack (where's my Williams-Sonoma catalog?)!
Tykwer displays mesmerizing skill with the camera it zooms over mountaintops, slinks around corners, and spies from the ceiling.
Hanging something low from the ceiling offers a welcome break in one's line of vision down the room.
The Floating Plant TV, which as you may have guessed, is a television that hangs from the ceiling.
Hanging from the ceiling was a glittering Spanish galleon, accompanied by a pair of chandeliers decked with Disney-like candlesticks.
Debris from the ceiling fell, and then it was quiet, he told KMOV.
On another occasion he described how he saw dust from the ceiling falling on a shop assistant stacking sandwiches.
We started in the Hall of Ocean Life, the one with the giant blue whale suspended from the ceiling.
Large, heavy carpets were hanging from the ceiling, spaced apart every few feet.
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Madoff was found by his father-in-law hanging from a ceiling pipe in the living room of his SoHo loft.
Panels of black glass hang from the ceiling and blowing hot breath on them, he explained, reveals engraved hidden messages.
Rocks cascade down from the ceiling, and chains rip across the stage as Kratos fights Hades, god of the Underworld.
The centerpiece of the gala evening, and of the exhibit, was a huge crown of thorns that hung from the ceiling.
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