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I wanted people to come to the restaurant and feel at home, so I put it in a house.
Curious thing, rooms. Tell you quite a lot about the people who live in them.
It were as though the building's kilometres of clanky old ductwork connected up to an asthmatic giant with poor oral hygiene, hidden away somewhere in the basement.
Hobbies take place in the cellar and smell of airplane glue.
Do you eat all of the men in the family? Where do they go? Does this house have a basement?
apartment building. "Yeah, it's
her bedroom and picked up
It's not the rooms, it's the life you live in them
The others followed, and found themselves in a small, stuffy basement, which would have been damp, smelly, close, and dark, were it not, in fact, well-lit, which prevented it from being dark.
like a small room. Like a
I would love to do a reunion tour if it only involved basements across the U.S.
Take down the walls
As you go in, on the first floor, the back window
Upstairs on a bus! It's Unbelievable
This might be one of the few basements in Southern California, but it was clearly being used the way Juan's family used the garage.
Back to the house.'
The house?'
Yes. You know ... the oversized box in which we live?
For novelists or musicians, if they really want to create something, they need to go downstairs and find a passage to get into the second basement. What I want to do is go down there, but still stay sane.
What a house - nothin' but rooms!
I find myself wanting to make music at the dining room table or in the bedroom - I'm kind of a mobile writer, so I sort of move around the house. But the attic is definitely where I can make the most noise. While everyone on the lower floors screams 'Earthquake!' But no! It's just my bass!
Living one floor below Paradise.
I'm in a loft and the kitchen is in the very center of the apartment. The whole place revolves around it.
It really is a helluva fiver-upper," Henry said, because someone had to say it. "I feel like they should possibly renovate this basement if they want to get a good sale price. Hardwood floors, update the doorknobs, maybe put the wall back.
We see a lot of startup companies, people that have a home-based office, they've been working out of their basement for two or three years, and now their basement or kids cannot accommodate them any longer.
Cement in bold relief, - far underground. I lean my elbows on the table, and the lamp lights brightly the newspapers I am fool enough to re-read, and the absurd books.
Born in a cellar ... and living in a garret.
It was the room where they
the Vault of Walt.
Barb's house, when I finally
Look down your shirt and spell attic.
I was born and bred in a tiny, low-ceilinged ground-floor apartment.
This is the room of the wolfmother wallpaper.
I work in a small study on the top floor of a brownstone in Brooklyn - it's about 75 square feet, 11 taken up by book shelves along one wall.
My bedroom is my sanctuary. It's like a refuge, and it's where I do a fair amount of designing - at least conceptually, if not literally.
In the kitchen, the machine
In this house, speaking and thinking
A house of which one knew every room wasn't worth living in.
our cabin in the woods in Clare.
front hallway while they were gone.
I probably write best in my office, which is an extra bedroom in my house.
in the Vault of Walt.
My closet! Mine!
Low ceilings and tiny rooms cramp the soul and the mind.
Its where my demons hide.
A few dud universes can really clutter up your basement.
I have three closets in my bedroom.
standing in the doorway of the kitchen.
He [my father] didn't have a basement workshop as such, but I know that he did build things, construct things, repair things. My mother, likewise, was sewing and doing activities that often take place in a household.
I have a room dedicated to music and recording. I go there first thing in the morning and just before I go to bed. And it has a window to my street, so I can watch all the crazies walking by.
My family lives in that building now, along with Grandpa in the fourth-floor "penthouse" apartment, as he calls the converted space that was once an attic studio.
The first floor could be a restaurant. A good restaurant can survive as long as it has easy accessibility.
In my house on the ceilings I have paintings of the rooms above ... so I never have to go upstairs.
I write in an old-school paneled study in the middle of a large farmhouse in rural Iowa. I have pine floors, a big cherry desk, and a small window. The room is cluttered with papers and books and gifts from friends.
I got the whole band set up in the basement and we are jamming.
bigger than a closet, empty except for an old oak door all bound
neighborhood, the place I left each
I need to use the little praetors' room.
in the closet to grab a Sunday school
her bathroom, likely not to surface for a while. She had agreed to
To go upstairs in the word house is to withdraw step by step; while to go down to the cellar is to dream
The Democratic Party headquarters house elf,
THE REPTILE ROOM
I travel often, so my routine is always getting scrambled. But on a standard sort of day, I get up at 6, pack lunches, hustle the kids off to school, then brew a pot of coffee and head downstairs to the dungeon, as I call it: my cobwebby office in the basement.
I should say upfront that I have never been in a cellar in my life. In fact, I can see no reason why anyone should ever go into a cellar unless there is wine involved.
Definitely my own room," Sully muttered. Mark
Bruno. 'In Berlin we had a big house with five floors if you counted the
Chuse not an house neere an lnne (viz. for noise) or in a corner (for filth).
I always thought you'd live underground somewhere, near the earth's core,
My studio is designed for atmosphere. I have a really cozy, comfortable room that has a great, huge glass door that views my backyard.
Tried to head in the general direction of the bathroom/
The truest room in the whole damn house.
Just below the dome, staring down
into my tightest place
Do you all have a living room floor or a bedroom floor? Then you can write a book.
a small room that smelled of darkness.
You don't ask questions of an attic
[Describing his house:] It is a library with living rooms attached.
My cage has many rooms.
It is an archive ... You probably get rooms like this in even the most modern of offices, like a rusty anchor chained to the past and with no purpose in life.
the middle of the guest room at the Blue Lake Historical
I usually write in my kitchen, which is a large, octagonal room that looks into woods - three big windows look out into the trees.
There are three floors beneath the garage? Why on earth?
-Mac
I don't like basements, but definitely basements could be poems. Not fond of skin diseases, but again, there's a pattern. Probably anything could be a poem.
A squat gray building of only thirty-four stories.
Must's a schoolroom in the month of may
What the fuck kind of twisted fun house is this?
front courtyard of his house. In an inner courtyard,
Palace of Crystal
I live in a cabin in Santa Cruz.
Woe to us if we get our satisfaction from the food in the kitchen and the TV in the den and the sex in the bedroom with an occasional tribute to the cement blocks in the basement!
view from everyone on the main floor. My
If there are alleys inside me, there must also be hallways. I
My room was a real way of expressing myself. It was like a little nest that I could settle into.
Audience member: Living Room!
Sara: Kitchen
I don't know. After the downstairs, I assumed something creepier and dirtier." I
shrugged. "You didn't have electricity down there."
"It's for dramatic effect." Loki gestured widely. "It's a dungeon.
Rather in a gutter than on a pedestal.
hallway, and into the loft. Beth helped Janae
Uptown living, you've got to call 911. Where I am, I am 911.
Hey, is this room out of bounds?
History - that little sewer where man loves to wallow.
I live on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. I live in a 950-square-foot apartment with one bathroom and two sons.
I am really chained to my computer these days so I work in my bedroom, which is a room I have worked in for years and years. It is just as much an office as a bedroom, and during the day, my bed is rather like an extension of my desk.