When you ask the bank for the money to buy a one-bedroom box in London, the money that appears in your account isn't borrowed from some prudent grandmother's life savings.
The tapes form teetering piles in the living room, down the halls, and into the bedrooms — boxes and boxes of them, thousands of hours of recordings featuring Bob Dylan and Abbie Hoffman, Timothy Leary and Wavy Gravy, Allen Ginsberg and Kinky Friedman.
No new buyers equals no more sellers' market, equals no pressing reason all of a sudden to pay half a million for a four-bedroom modern box in Worcester or a one-bedroom flat in much of London – and what then?
In a closet in the Handey's bedroom are boxes containing thousands of deep thoughts, most of which have never been seen by anyone but the Handeys.
What you get Chesterhall House is a 19th-century former farmhouse with five bedrooms, a box room, drawing room, dining room, study, breakfast room, kitchen, utility room and garden room.
The flat, in London, has one big bedroom and a box room.
But Louise had long ago, and without fuss, banished him from the master bedroom into the box room at the end of the corridor beyond the library.
There were cameras in the bedroom, the litter box and even the toilet bowl, a vantage point that offered viewers images that perhaps more than most revealed how Mr. Harris felt about other people.
But the police seized a "chunk of marijuana" from a hamper in the front bedroom and a box of ammunition for a.357 magnum in a space above a drop ceiling, Mr. Florence said.
A cover of The New Yorker last spring picked up on the zeitgeist: a young man hangs up his new Ph.D. in his boyhood bedroom, the cardboard box at his feet signaling his plans to move back home now that he's officially overqualified for a job.
This mistaken view reinforces another truism of interior design that "box bedroom" clutter makes a space look smaller, while "conservatory" light creates a feeling of space.
