The kitchen at The Franchise where Betty would have been put to work if she hadn't escaped is "a great gloomy place with a floor of stone slabs".
In Japan, they might be placed in the middle of a room and drain directly onto a floor of stone tile or, in fancier, zen garden-like setups (both indoors and out), they might lie on a bed of smooth river rocks, surrounded by plantings of whispering bamboo.
You walk down a wooden walkway slightly suspended above a floor of stones.
The large hunter green wooden doors open onto an open plan living area with a floor of polished gray trachite stone, the same used on the building's exterior.
The minimal space was simply decorated, with an artfully worn wooden desk, a large bed with a white crocheted cover, arched ceilings and a floor of packed earth and patinaed stone tiles.
The kitchen, accessed through the dining room, has a skylight, an eating area, exposed brick and stone walls, a floor of sealed cork tiles and an electric stove with a copper ventilation hood.
Housed in a three-story red-brick building with a first-floor exterior of stone, it is a place where faith and the hard realities of immigrant life intertwine, where members of a growing ethnic minority -- West African -- find a religious, social and financial focus.
Located on the second floor of a stone complex on the remains of a Byzantine church in the Old City, before the Ottoman period the building was administered by the pope's own Franciscan order until the mid-16th century.
George Howell and Jonathan Tenney, in their book Bi-centennial History of Albany, claim that reports from 1646 state the building was a substantial (at least for its time) three-story structure, with the lower floor built of stone and used as a jail.
RANERI, India — In this tiny village almost 400 miles southwest of New Delhi, where women wash dishes in the sand to conserve water, and electricity is scarce, Lakha Khan sat on the floor of a stone hut, legs crossed and white turban in place.
It owes its attraction in large part to a bylaw passed in 1953 requiring all new buildings to follow the traditional architectural style, with a ground floor of concrete or stone and wooden-clad façades above (to a maximum of three stories).
