"If upstairs come down they'll shoot me".
"The ceilings were so unstable that on one occasion, someone fitting a shower upstairs came through into the hall below, still standing on the tray," she said.
The total cost of the renovations, which included installing two bathrooms, removing a wall between the kitchen and a den, and putting in additional walls upstairs, came to about $53,000.
When Claire Messud's book "The Woman Upstairs" came out, in the spring, Publishers Weekly asked her whether she would want to be "friends" with her novel's protagonist, Nora, an angry and frustrated schoolteacher, whose outlook the interviewer called "grim".
"He'd record something upstairs, come down and play it for us," his father recalled, adding, "I liked his music, but it could get a little loud for my taste".
From an upstairs window comes a sound exceedingly rare in Lomé.
Upstairs has come downstairs, downstairs is trying to go upstairs, or – in Tom's case – to sleep upstairs.
The Devon and its upstairs club came down years ago.
Stay upstairs!" Hey, come on, I'm thinking.
Another pane, in the upstairs bathroom, came from a 120-year-old London row house.
