How To Use First floor In A Sentence

The duplex houses are better where the bedrooms are on the first floor.
We raised the level of the veranda to the first floor level and incorporated ramps into the new veranda's design.
The first floor houses a reception room and a banquet hall.
To my right were buildings with their first floors torn apart or gutted by fire, but the shells of the buildings still stood.
On the first floor three two bedroom units will be built around a central stairwell and lift shaft.

On the first floor in the rear is the main screening room, not large yet not small, and certainly comfortable. Stewart Nusbaumer: One Weekend, Four Film Fests: Harlem
The bedrooms on the first floor look out over culs-de-sac on either side. Times, Sunday Times
Changes include knocking down walls on the ground and first floors to add rooms. The Sun
There is a fine oak carved overmantel and an old door opens on to the curved stone stair to the first floor.
Once this was done, and the buildings cleared of unnecessary accretions, the architect was left with an enormous double-height volume, requiring a new first floor, and a smaller vaulted one with a chamber above.
The showpiece is the glass staircase that leads to the first floor. Times, Sunday Times
She caught a glimpse of his paleness at the window of the bathroom on the first floor.
The room also features a brick fireplace with raised hearth and thick wood beamed mantelpiece, and is overlooked by a balcony which is accessible from the first floor.
The other six bedrooms are divided between the ground and first floors; the staff of four stay in a basement flat. Times, Sunday Times
There is also an additional accommodation on the first floor and basement with a rear access.
But the sand last been blown over here by the wind through these portals on the first floor of this building.
In ascending from the first floor, you are aware of space above and below you.
The second-best room in the Manor, situated upon the first floor, it overlooked the back of the garden, where there was a tangled thicket of laurustinus and rhododendron. The Hill A Romance of Friendship
The atrium style entrance halls are overlooked by an overhanging gallery on the first floor.
He gave me all the right information: the location of the office, first floor, opposite a timberyard. A NASTY DOSE OF DEATH
There is a DJ booth and the manager plans to change the layout on the first floor to make space for a small dance floor.
This spatial richness was supported by the increasing complexity of the decorative scheme, with the frieze above the first floor decorated with medallions beneath an attic storey supported on caryatids.
Yards away, police officers manned a cordon around the house, and tarpaulins hung over the charred first floor window where firefighters are thought to have made the discovery of the bodies.
Cherny's rooms were on the first floor of the old greystone college building. CONFESSIONAL
The permanent collection is displayed on the first floor, whilst the ground floor houses temporary exhibitions.
All of the women are staying on the first floor, while the men are somewhere downstairs.
From the seven bedrooms on the first floor, to the nine reception rooms on the ground floor, to the staff quarters below stairs, the apartment is the epitome of elegance.
We've got the ground and first floor of a Victorian terrace. Times, Sunday Times
Ledgers are often placed at the same level as the floor joists of the first floor, and this automatically solves the problem.
The permanent collection is displayed on the first floor, whilst the ground floor houses temporary exhibitions.
On three floors, a curving stone staircase leads from the hall to the first floor where the principal bedroom has an elegant bay of arched sash windows.
The showpiece is the glass staircase that leads to the first floor. Times, Sunday Times
In the Chemistry Building there were a number of non-laboratory rooms on the first floor.
On the particular occasion that he went to the roof, he had been warned by the first floor tenant that water was pouring in the roof hatch.
On the first floor are reception rooms and a kitchen, all bespoke curved units and granite tops. Times, Sunday Times
Only the ground floor has remained in use after the first floor was deemed structurally unsafe in the 1950s.
The waterwheel shaft and main gearing are well below the first floor of the mill.
The quoins at the corners do not continue on the first floor. Times, Sunday Times
We had the first floor with three rooms. Lost Voices of the Edwardians: 19011910 in the words of the Men & Women Who Were There
Fire brigade officers say the leak occurred in a pipe on the first floor.
For a decent first floor and two bed-chambers on the second, I payed no more than a scudo (five shillings) per day. Travels through France and Italy
Like the two bathrooms directly above it on the first floor, it, too, is daylit through a wall of translucent glass blocks.
But residents are hoping there will be a complete overhaul of the building, including reinstating the first floor, which was removed during Victorian times.
A female guest was also seriously injured when she was forced to leap from a first floor widow to escape.
Flames were shooting out through the first floor of the building when firemen arrived.
There are two bedrooms on the first floor and one on the second. Times, Sunday Times
On the first floor there is a master bedroom with en-suite shower room and balcony, and a second bedroom/study.
We recommend that the top triangle of brickwork of the front gable wall be taken down to first floor window head level.
Based in a specially designed kiosk on the airport's first floor adjacent to the information desk, the station offers shiatsu massage - a form of bodywork involving the client's acupressure points.
A separate stair to the main bedroom on the first floor would divide the kitchen from the dining area.
Building A has no glazing or guttering, no ground floor or access to the first floor, no service fittings or internal finishes.
A game / billiards room on the first floor opens out onto a patio with a hot tub.
From the main hall, a stairway with return and wooden balustrade leads to the first floor.
Now, get yourself down to Wallace on the first floor, he'll fix you up with a cover identity.
The large master bedroom, at the front of the first floor proper, has generous built-in wooden wardrobes, a corner handbasin and a marble vanity unit.
I browsed through the first floor of the department store.
The rectory's first floor had the parish office, a waiting room, and a meeting room.
The prism consists of the vestibule on the opposite end of the front wall of the presbytery, from where one enters the temple, the local parish basement and the first floor dwellings.
The stairwell is double height so that shortens any floorspace on the first floor as well.
They are countering the space loss by inserting a mezzanine between the ground and first floors.
It was a neat, dull little house, on the shady side of the way, with new, narrow floorcloth in the passage, and new, narrow stair – carpets up to the first floor. Sketches by Boz
The flat was on the first floor of a tenement block, and had a lovely front room.
First floor depth of a house six, around are the porches.
Head to the first floor where the exhibitors have taken individual rooms to get you to see, touch, and feel the products.
A dog-leg staircase which has the original wrought-iron railing leads to the first floor landing with herringbone parquet flooring.
The shop and entresol at that time were tenanted by a tinman; the landlord occupied the first floor; the four upper stories were rented by very decent working girls, who were treated by the portress and the proprietor with some consideration and an obligingness called forth by the difficulty of letting a house so oddly constructed and situated. Scenes from a Courtesan's Life
When I reached the hotel, and mentioned her name, I was shown up to a private sitting-room on the first floor, facing the gay Paris boulevard, and with the bright light streaming in through its half-closed persiennes. To-morrow?
Prosecutors allege Poole finally told the truth - that she became dizzy and lost her grip on the girl's ankles during a spinning game she called "whirlybird" and Allison fell off a balcony to the first floor. The End of the Story
But the one on the first floor did ignite a fire inside the room which the hotel staff is still sort of struggling to put out.
The breakfast diner was downstairs on the first floor, just opposite of the front desk.
Crews excavated as much as 28 ft to add a new first floor and basement and drilled in 687 concrete-filled steel piers.
This area also accommodates a small guest toilet and the stairs to the first floor.
‘Oh, come on, like it's really any different from human tranks,’ Fisher comforted, reaching the first floor.
If I was able to convince my neighbours on the ground and first floors that they need one too, could we build it up? Times, Sunday Times
Up to forty soldiers in the guardroom on the first floor provided additional security. THE LOST KING OF FRANCE: Revolution, Revenge and the Search for Louis XVII
Twin arched picture windows bisect the front facade and an outside staircase leads to the first floor.
I was pointed up to the first floor of the building where some cleaners were mopping up.
The whole first floor was ablaze. The heat was terrific.
Up on the first floor, doors lead off from a central landing to a bathroom with decorative woodwork and a mosaic-tiled shower cubicle, and four bedrooms, one of which is currently fitted out as a dressing room.
Grosvenor is offering something more overtly grand in the 5,500 sq ft four-bedroom apartment in the ground and first floors. Times, Sunday Times
The windows of the top storey were concealed within the frieze of the main entablature whilst the heads of those on the first floor were dropped to suit the new storey heights.
One of the two modems used for the first call on a TTY - or teletypewriter - more than 40 years ago is featured on the first floor of the library as part of its Deaf Archives collection. First TTY for deaf phone communication on display
Knight Frank One of the bedroom suites is in the tower, accessed via a staircase from the first floor. Florence Farmhouse
The main bathroom is on the first floor return and is fitted with a wall of cupboards and cork tile flooring.
He gave me all the right information: the location of the office, first floor, opposite a timberyard. A NASTY DOSE OF DEATH
From here, an elegant stone staircase to the first floor has cast iron bannisters and a polished mahogany handrail, and it leads to the landing lit by large cupola.
There is underfloor heating in four zones on the ground and first floor rooms of Raleigh North, while all the doors, architraves, moulded skirting, sills and stairs are solid teak.
They have climbed up to the first floor to take a dekko at the Hall of Mirrors, which survives in a state of suspended animation.
I heard footsteps downstairs on the first floor and it sounded like Gorey speaking in a shushed sort of voice.
The external fire escapes to the first floor flats at the rear of the blocks were generally unmaintained
There are nine bedrooms on the first floor, one within a large self-contained annexe. Times, Sunday Times
A dramatic dog-leg external ramp linking the ground and first floor levels runs across the glazed west wall of the drawing room.
The first floor accommodation is completed by a spacious family bathroom with slate floor and rich green walls.
The elevator door on the first floor was ornamental iron lace.
The interior is largely obscured by an upside-down stair, magically suspended from the first floor and contained by a diaphanous veil of fine steel grating.
The accommodation briefly comprises ground floor lounge bar, first floor mezzanine area, second floor catering kitchen (with service lift to bar area).
A timber staircase leads from the entrance lobby to the first floor and the remaining five bedrooms.
First floor is the doll zoo… lots of dolls on display and tons of kicky little outfits.
Also on the first floor are the large library and a connecting sitting room: a secret hideaway with steps that lead up from the garden. Times, Sunday Times
He rode the elevator down to the first floor.
A landing between the ground and first floors is ample enough to be used as a study.
Since it is on the first floor there are high ceilings and the sitting room has elegant, full-length windows overlooking the square.
It sits at street level between the two living spaces in the basement and on the first floor.
Whatever she was up to with the man on the first floor, it wasn't something she had chosen to mention to Tadzio. THE LAST TEMPTATION
On the ground floor one bay would serve as an entrance and utility room, with a stair to the first floor.
She and John inhabited three rooms on the first floor, where a small washroom had been converted to a kitchen for them. IN LOVE AND WAR
By 4.12 pm, they were on the escalator to the first floor of the ladies' department.
No. 3 on the first floor hall, reading a second-year undergraduate animation students are watching the king of Europe's unique "flight line" work.
The first floor will house the toilets and other rooms will remain unused.
If the women refer to the Ionic of the piano nobile above them, then the Zecca doorway with its herms suggests the mixture of rustic and Doric orders of the first floor of the mint.
It was not intended that there would be balconies at first floor level around the edges of the deck.
He also said the doorbell was not audible to staff on the first floor, where officers write reports and take refreshments.
There are four bedrooms, two dressing rooms and two bathrooms on the first floor.
In fact, one of the best places for goulash, in either soup or stew form, is at the Fakanal restaurant on the first floor of the market hall.
Lovers of these stories — can we not call them addicts? — often note that part of their appeal lies in their comfortingly familiar atmospheres: Holmes and Watson's rooms on Baker Street, with the "gasogene" (whatever that is) and the Persian slipper filled with pipe tobacco, or Wolfe's townhouse on West 35th, with its kitchen on the first floor and its plant rooms on the roof. Now, Read it Again
You'll be able to get out on to the fire escape from the first floor. ALASTAIR MCLEAN'S 'NIGHT WATCH'
The fire took hold in a first floor bedroom as some of the family watched television downstairs and others cooked a meal in a basement kitchen last night.
They owned the ground floor flat; we rented the first floor. Times, Sunday Times
There are nine bedrooms on the first floor, one within a large self-contained annexe. Times, Sunday Times
The first floor has a kitchen, bathroom, and a bedroom with two double beds; up the spiral staircase is another bedroom with 2 twin beds. Accomodations in La Cruz de Huanacaxtle
The agent states that the property would make a family home or could be divided into two separate apartments as there are entrances at both garden level and first floor level.
A central atrium provides the main pedestrian entrance to the apartments and in turn leads to the internal courtyard, which is at first floor level.
But on the ground and first floors most classes are smaller. Times, Sunday Times
It also has a lovely terrace courtyard garden as well as a balcony on the first floor. Times, Sunday Times
His tiny flat is on the first floor of a deck-access block, in a district riven by urban motorways and pockmarked with decaying council estates. Peter Tatchell, still on the front line at 60 | Nick Cohen
The building's exterior is largely unchanged, except that the carved mammal heads on the keystones of the first floor windows have been removed.
The first floor of the center, with exam rooms, a kitchen, and a solarium, opened for business in 1996.
We found him taping pictures to every classroom door on the first floor.
An adenoidal voice informed him that Dr. Rayner's office was on the first floor of Franz Hall. THE KILL CLAUSE
Lines criss-crossed the street from the first floors.
The first floor of Glendower House was also formerly the offices of the Tenby employment exchange.
A further two twin rooms on the first floor also share a bathroom. Times, Sunday Times
The first floor would be used for training and the ground floor would have an assembly room, lounge and refreshment bar.
Three masked men reached a first floor office on Sunday night after passing through at least one checkpoint as well as corridors and rooms secured by coded keypads.
The ground floor is billed as a wine bar but has a full menu, and the restaurant is on the first floor.
There are nine bedrooms on the first floor, one within a large self-contained annexe. Times, Sunday Times
The first floor has a smoking room and billiard room. Times, Sunday Times
The interior is largely obscured, however, by an upside-down stair, magically suspended from the first floor and contained by a diaphanous veil of fine steel grating.
The first floor comprises the main living and dining area and has a sitting room, separate TV room, kitchen and toilet.
On the first floor, a galleried landing leads through to a bathroom and four bedrooms, the smallest of which is currently used as a study and has a fitted desk, drawers and storage.
Bungling bureaucrats even failed to inform people that there was a problem with the stairlift and that the only way to get to the first floor centre was up a steep flight of stairs.
The long hallway was much like the first floor had been: everything covered in dust, walls peeling, ceilings cracked, and missing floorboards.
The permanent collection is displayed on the first floor, whilst the ground floor houses temporary exhibitions.
Other buildings lurched under top-heavy weight as key supports on the first floors had been torn out.
They led us to the first floor to watch them fire at people in front of the stage. The Sun
At the moment, the owners are using the largest bedroom as a first floor drawing room which spans the width of the house and includes two shuttered windows and a cast iron fireplace.
Externally the houses have a cut stone plinth, rendered walls to first floor level and a solid timber upper floor.
A bare wood staircase led up to the first floor, which comprised a bathroom and two bedrooms.
Two double bedrooms and a twin with a shower room are on the first floor. Times, Sunday Times
The bar commands a spectacular view of the River Shannon from the ground and first floor of the €100 million River Point building.
The hallway has a sweeping staircase to the first floor, with a wrought-iron balustrade and hardwood handrail.
A separate stair to the main bedroom on the first floor would divide the kitchen from the dining area.
First floor, astronomy and space suits. Times, Sunday Times
The remainder of the property is laid out in bedroom accommodation with a self-contained apartment on the first floor and an additional seven to eight bedrooms and bathrooms on the upper floors.
The showpiece is the glass staircase that leads to the first floor. Times, Sunday Times
The contractor is to arrange for the carpets to be lifted from the ground and first floor levels and removed off site prior to work starting.
The hostel had 25 two and three-tiered bunks on the ground floor and a virtual rabbit warren of about 20 rooms on the first floor, with four or five people per room.
On the south side, a first floor loggia with Ionic columns overlooked the garden; on the north, a horseshoe staircase leads in Palladian manner to a terrace and a two-storey cubic hall.
The drainage layer, the guard rail for the service stair, and the ‘flush’ first floor items were not dealt with.
The master bedroom is on the first floor landing while upstairs there are three more bedrooms and two bathrooms.
It also has a lovely terrace courtyard garden as well as a balcony on the first floor. Times, Sunday Times
The master bedroom is off the first floor return which has a window that overlooks the River Suir.
The double doors to the entrance were propped open, and a few people milled around on the first floor.
An open plan landing runs the length of the first floor, at either end of which are two identical double bedrooms.
Half of the first floor is occupied by an ice cream bar and a leisure area with orange furniture.
Also available are three-bedroom duplexes on the ground and first floors; these have 105 square metres of accommodation and are selling for €228,000.
Stairs rising to first floor with exposed timber bannister.
Better to go for one on the first floor: room 127 has a terrace overlooking the garden. Times, Sunday Times
A separate stair to the main bedroom on the first floor would divide the kitchen from the dining area.
It is understood that it plans to provide a first floor coffee shop cum restaurant and to open a retail outlet on the ground floor.
Emily broke from her journey of reminiscence and concentrated on the sounds carrying from the first floor.
From the entrance hall, a staircase with carved bannister rail and balustrades leads to the first floor return.
The first floor up would be reached by an spiral iron staircase, enclosable at its top by a trap door. Orangeville
The four impressive staircases at the four outer corners of the structure lead to the first floor.
The ground floor, first floor and part of the second floor would contain bars, restaurants, bistros, lounges and a dancing area.
The first floor accommodation, which originally comprised two rooms to the front and one to the back, has been divided into four separate units.
Sullivan lifted the second story of his house onto piers holding it over the enfilade of the first floor and its high brick basement.
A dog-leg staircase which has the original wrought-iron railing leads to the first floor landing with herringbone parquet flooring.
From here, a long ramp winds up to a triple-height exhibition hall on the first floor.
Gurney moved the kitchen out of a dogleg at the back of the house and into the middle of the first floor, and he relocated the front stairwell into the dogleg.
Most lodging will be on the first floor and relatively accessible, however certain amenities commonly found in the United States may be lacking (such as grab bars in rest rooms to assist persons with disabilities). Where to Find Friends for Travel in Back Country
The architectural appearance of this edifice reminds us a little of the severe style of the florentine architecture; the large doorway is ornamented with the attributes of commerce, as likewise the coping of the edifice; two bas-reliefs, of eight and a half feet high, and sculptured on stone by David, representing the _symbols of navigation and commerce_, decorate the middle of the facade on the first floor. Rouen, It's History and Monuments A Guide to Strangers
First is a two-bedroomed, first floor flat with a period fireplace and real gas fire.
A landing between the ground and first floors is ample enough to be used as a study.
The showpiece is the glass staircase that leads to the first floor. Times, Sunday Times
The offices of the management were on the first floor, and Henry was conducted thither and shown into Witherspoon's private apartment -- into the calico, bombazine, hardware and universal nick-nack holy of holies. The Colossus A Novel
Within, upon the first floor above the street, up a wide carven stair, he showed them to a fair room, light and airy, with goodly hangings of dull gold sheen unfigured. The Lord of the Rings
He had to jump from a first floor window.
With hand signals, she gestured for the rest of the team to follow her into the next hallway, which would lead to the first floor staircase.
His boss sat on the forty-first floor and was still basking in the reflected glory of his minion.
On the first floor was the living room, dining room, a conservatory that led onto a small garden, a kitchen, and a bathroom.
The blueprint sees an auditorium retained, with seating in the circle on the first floor which could be used to watch theatre.
A staircase with white oak bannisters leads to the large first floor landing which has recessed ceiling lighting and access to the attic.
The old gallery will be found on the first floor of the house; previously on an outside wall facing East.
They all have two storeys - either basement and ground, or first floor and attic space.
Toilets on the first floor are only available to those attending meetings.
We had the first floor with three rooms. Lost Voices of the Edwardians: 19011910 in the words of the Men & Women Who Were There
It transpired I was actually on the first floor and not the ground floor. Times, Sunday Times
All four bedrooms on the first floor, as well as the entrance hall and bathroom, have wooden floors covered by carpets.
In the larger cities (above all Rome and Ostia) there were also examples of more plebeian housing, generally small in size and located on the first floor of the large residences that occupied entire city blocks.

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