I grabbed my raincoat off the floor, smoothed down my hair in the mirror, and went out.
Enclosed houses, used mainly for herds of 12 sows or more, usually have concrete floors, smooth walls, and insulation.
Mr. Hicks persuaded a landlord in Brooklyn to allow the Veterans Service Corps to rent a refurbished building of 16 cozy studio and duplex apartments, complete with varnished wood floors, smooth white walls and spacious tile bathrooms.
Over all, the feel of the home remains deeply traditional, with its uneven dark wood floors smoothed by generations of feet and many of its furnishings left by the previous residents — from an old radio to the black-and-white family portraits on the living room wall.
There the ocean floor is smooth and flat.
Mr. Surtees's jury-rigged dollies worked spectacularly well, Mr. Eastwood said, provided the floor was smooth enough.
Just outside was a bit of floor, worn smooth like the skin of a grape, where people had been kicking the door open for five hundred years.
Next to the sink, long lengths of tubular steel rise from the floor in smooth curves, bending into the form of a coatstand.
But what I noticed first was that the walls were as white as white can be, and when I kicked off my shoes, the stone floor was smooth and cool.
Notice that the wood floor is smooth and shiny, but also detailed.
