Sentence examples for lowering ceilings from inspiring English sources

Campaigners for good design note grimly that Barratt and Bellway, two of Britain's most profitable building firms, have mastered the conjuring trick of creating more rooms by lowering ceilings and bringing walls closer together.In this section What's in it for us?

Most of the later pre-Columbian sweat houses to be excavated were larger, more elaborate structures, presumably for the Maya elite in the first millennium A.D. Some design changes included moving the firebox chamber inside the sweat house and lowering ceilings to make the rooms easier to heat.

The two robotic characters provide some amusing death scenes in the cooperative mode, such as struggling while being crushed by a lowering ceiling.

Also, there are big-screen televisions in the lounge and track lighting across the lowered ceilings.

Ms. Fiorina said that the latter problem was being addressed by a management shake-up, a more formal process to review investments and lowered ceilings on how much the company will invest in individual start-ups.

"What counts most now is that Russia and the United States start moving jointly or along parallel courses toward radically lowered ceilings on nuclear warheads without any holdups," Mr. Putin said before leaving Moscow.

"The original features were all behind lowered ceilings and the marble floors were covered with concrete and carpeting, so you can imagine how the building looked all done in a '70s style," Mr. de Rooij said.

Since the 1940s, climate control has prompted architects to lower ceilings and scrap such pleasant features as balconies and porches, which leak costly cooled air into the outside world.

In 1961, Woodlea was redecorated with modern fabrics, warm gold and forest green carpets, dropped lighting, and some lowered ceilings.

A lowered ceiling in a dining area, for instance, can be pleasant and intimate, but a lowered ceiling covering only part of the area can be most distracting.

The Bernstein Suite is perhaps the most dramatic, with itsslightly lowered ceiling adding to the drama of stepping out onto itsterraces from which one recent female guest commented, "You feel like youown Paris".