How To Use Ground floor In A Sentence

For that reason its exterior façade is made of limestone on the ground floor and an innovative terra-cotta cladding on the upper floors. The Seigle House by Lohan Anderson
The heavy spring rain has flooded out the ground floor of the hotel.
The Malleswaram market in the new parking complex plan has a basement, ground floor, mezzanine, three floors and a terrace across 70,000 sq ft, as does the Seshadripuram market.
Staff revealed that four ovens were situated on the ground floor, two electric and two gas, each the same size as a small car.
On its ground floor, executive director Amy Tobin showed me some salvaged-wood tables, benches, and a lustrously smooth black-acacia countertop created by Paul Discoe, an ordained Buddhist priest whose Oakland-based company, Live Edge, utilizes lumber from urban street trees that have been cut down due to storm damage, disease, and other reasons. Anneli Rufus: Rainwater Toilets and Slag: Touring Berkeley's Greenest Building

The drawings included drawing 24G showing standard curtain walling, a reconstituted slate roof and at ground floor level the columns in place of the fins, to which we have already referred.
The ground floor is the hub of the activity as it is the main banking hall.
The ground floor also contains a common room, servery, kitchen, meeting rooms and offices.
The ground floor of the complex will contain a spa, while the second floor will house a conference centre, a club room, and lounge.
The elevator creaked to a halt at the ground floor.
Carly Otness/BFA DJ Nick Cohen Ludlow Manor, Mr. Carl's latest foray into nightlife, is an over-the-top triplex space with a tapas restaurant on the ground floor and palm trees on the rooftop. Tacos to Tapas: Hot on the Scene
The film looks like any big-city hotel - an atrium, subdued lighting, comfy modern chairs on the ground floor.
Most of the ground floor was inaccessible to the public, and was otherwise occupied by a small café and three temporary exhibition rooms. Times, Sunday Times
On the ground floor is a saloon bar with a food servery, kitchen and customer toilets.
A diminutive, wiry figure, he sits, smoking roll-ups and nursing a cup of black coffee, in the corner of his ground floor study in north London.
We'd carefully prepared the house (bought case of beer - check, removed all breakables from ground floor - check, warn neighbours - check), and our preparation paid off.
With his augmented capital, Huang had the old building refurbished in 1908, with the second floor functioning as a pharmacy department while the ground floor served as a shop front.
The three-bedroom terraced home has an open-plan ground floor and a secluded courtyard patio. Times, Sunday Times
On the ground floor is a saloon bar with a food servery, kitchen and customer toilets.
Evidently, as the water slowly receded in the city, the museum's ground floor took on water from hydrostatic pressure through cracks in the concrete slab.
The ground floor and mezzanine are designed for restaurants, cafés, fitness clubs and boutiques. Times, Sunday Times
The three-bedroom terraced home has an open-plan ground floor and a secluded courtyard patio. Times, Sunday Times
The house is divided horizontally so that she has the basement and ground floor and he has the first and second.
On the ground floor there is a lounge, sitting room, dining room and kitchen.
Ground floor and blue prints then,' and then even more playfully, `or I could maybe give you a piggyback. FALLEN WOMEN
We had the restaurant on the ground floor and the building became available upstairs. Times, Sunday Times
Expect to find signed works by the shop's regular customer Alan Bennett and local authors such as Gervase Phinn on the ground floor, with the basement given over to classical, folk and jazz CDs and a wide range of sheet music. Independent bookshops in north-east England
The house has a living room, a sitting room, a kitchen on the ground floor and a hallway with storage.
The ground floor also features antique wood panelling on the walls and front bar with an inviting open gas fire near the entrance.
Huge pools of water still lay about everywhere, leaking from the ground floors of the buildings, but they were little more than two or three feet deep. Ballardian » Simon O’Carrigan’s The Drowned World
So far, the spacious bistro, on the ground floor of the building occupied by Genova, Burns & Giantomasi, is a gathering spot for Genova attorneys, city workers and Rutgers B-school students at night. A Bistro in Newark
Instead of a vaulted lower ground floor, here there are two up-and-over heated garages.
The permanent collection is displayed on the first floor, whilst the ground floor houses temporary exhibitions.
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.
Having viewed the shed from the rear ground floor room of number 90 and from its garden, I do not consider that it overshadows that property to any significant extent or causes any material loss of light.
If you are on the ground floor, the cause of the water ingress may be rising damp.
Decorated in cornflower blue and white, this features a striking granite fireplace with marble inset and, like most of the ground floor accommodation, is floored in Junkers timber.
Inside appears the three-storeyed division of ground floor arcade, triforium and clerestory.
At present, it is split into a museum on the ground floor and an art gallery upstairs.
Saev led her through the rest of the ground floor: a dining hall, an ill-equipped kitchen, a medical station with no supplies. CHAMELEON
Apparently there are two bearded men who potentially live in the ground floor flat. Times, Sunday Times
_Club Room_, which occupies all the ground floor: it will be divided by columns and pilasters of scagliola, and decorated with a paneled ceiling and appropriate ornaments. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 531, January 28, 1832
There is underfloor heating on the whole lower ground floor as well as in the bathrooms. Times, Sunday Times
So the provisioner went in followed by the portress and the Porter and went on till they reached a spacious ground floor hall,148 built with admirable skill and beautified with all manner colours and carvings; with upper balconies and groined arches and galleries and cupboards and recesses whose curtains hung before them. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
The ground floor needs 14 window openings made with sandstone surrounds.
The permanent collection is displayed on the first floor, whilst the ground floor houses temporary exhibitions.
The floor slab perimeters are suspended via steel hanging rods located in alternate curtain walling mullions with no columns at ground floor level to compromise the huge entrance foyer.
The ground floor is a warren of rooms crammed with every kind of device you ever saw in an ironmonger's, and quite a lot more besides.
On the ground floor of the house there was another flat and our front door. Times, Sunday Times
The heavy spring rain has flooded out the ground floor of the hotel.
The ground floor houses a study, dining room and drawing room, which opens on to another terrace and the garden. Times, Sunday Times
Supply and return air to and from the ground floor is ducted to diffusers incorporated in and above the light fittings.
The ones on the ground floor were covered with a thick wire mesh. Exploring language (6th edn)
The ground floor of the building was redecorated during the closed winter months, the upper gallery having been refurbished last year.
Only the ground floor has remained in use after the first floor was deemed structurally unsafe in the 1950s.
The stairs leading to the ground floor are a highlight. Times, Sunday Times
With a nod from an instructor, I began the rappel down the ground floor 210 feet below.
The cantilever on the canal side is counterbalanced by the concrete ground floor on the land side.
There was no sound of movement in the house as he climbed slowly down two flights of stairs, also lit by candlelight, to the ground floor.
The ones on the ground floor were covered with a thick wire mesh. Exploring language (6th edn)
The three storey building comprises a ground floor retail unit and residential accommodation overhead.
Our ground floor became a consulting room and two changing rooms for his patients. Times, Sunday Times
The flood left a thick deposit of mud over the entire ground floor of the house.
The ground floor is primarily transparent, providing a sense of the park extending through the building and into the courtyard, where a grove of Yellow birch provides shade and protection.
On the ground floor there four reception rooms, a kitchen with fitted units, a separate utility room and two larders with traditional stone shelves.
So there's a striking contrast between the grim aspect of the kitchens and vaults at ground floor level, and the movement of space and light at first-floor level and above.
We live in a ground floor flat which backs onto a busy street.
The house has a kitchen, dining room and two sitting rooms on the ground floor. Times, Sunday Times
The kitchen suffered nearly 70 per cent fire damage and the rest of the ground floor and part of upstairs were also affected.
He rapidly crept through the large room and down the steps, and on the ground floor ran up against one of the lodgers in the caravansera. Debit and Credit Translated from the German of Gustav Freytag
The ground floor is best known for its unique collection of antique dolls' houses dating back to 1673.
The ground floor slab is not nearly as costly as the second floor slab because it has no rebar or plastic blocks. If you have questrions about my project...
If you have underfloor heating throughout, you will enjoy a better all-round ambient temperature in every room, not just on the ground floor.
Investigations had revealed extensive rot in the beams under the ground floor.
In the three-bedroom duplex houses, the ground floor accommodation comprises a living room, separate kitchen/dining area and cloakroom.
There is underfloor heating on the whole lower ground floor as well as in the bathrooms. Times, Sunday Times
A splendid double staircase leads to the ground floor as high as an 'entresol'. The French Immortals Series — Complete
The house has a kitchen, dining room and two sitting rooms on the ground floor. Times, Sunday Times
Building A has no glazing or guttering, no ground floor or access to the first floor, no service fittings or internal finishes.
She showed him around the ground floor of the empty house.
It has four bedrooms, an almost entirely open-plan ground floor and an underground garage. Times, Sunday Times
Lifts are surrounded by glowing glass; and luminous white glass boxes are inset into the bar's polished stone counter in the ground floor cafe.
The doors opened on the ground floor, and he found himself confronting a despatch rider with a crash helmet. SEIZE THE RECKLESS WIND
Located in Hampstead, London, originally this spacious flat used to be a ground floor and basement for a gothic-styled grand house built for an artist way back in 1870. Luxurious Home in London’s Holland Park
The chain wants to convert the ground floor to what they describe as a traditional ale house and wine bar, with no-smoking zones and a family area.
On the ground floor a corridor has been introduced along the north side, but the original ceiling beams continue across with traces of early paint. Times, Sunday Times
The intention was to convert the ground floor of a house into a farm shop, replace and enlarge the garden centre and coffee shop and landscape an overflow car park.
A clunking old metal elevator struggled to make its way to the ground floor, then grudgingly opened its doors to allow myself and a frazzled woman to embark.
It is a spacious house but the bathroom is on the ground floor and it is on a fairly busy road. Times, Sunday Times
The ground floor has now been opened up into a bar, with a raised dining room at the rear. Times, Sunday Times
The retailer is expected to convert the ground floor into a supermarket and sell the upper floors to a developer.
It did this first by remaking -- in the '80s -- the major downtown shopping street, a then dead pedestrian mall now known as the phenomenally successful and often imitated Third Street Promenade, and then by enabling -- starting in the' 90s -- the building of many five-story apartments (with retail on the ground floor), so that now the downtown has a large and growing residential population. Frank Gruber: Searching for a Fourth Urbanism, Part 2: Wherein I Find One and Describe it
Of course, much more remains to be done, but the ground floor now houses a large historical museum containing many artifacts indicative of past life in Wood's Harbour.
The centre is looking for a safe, ground floor office with access for buggies and pushchairs.
Delivery, workshop and storage occupy the ground floor of the north wing, connected to a service entrance on the harbour side.
Our ground floor became a consulting room and two changing rooms for his patients. Times, Sunday Times
The increase of wealth brought about change: in the fourteenth century the leading merchants lived in fairly simple homes, with the ground floor used as a shop. The Times Literary Supplement
The ground floor also features a library and dining room.
Formerly a Garda barracks, sweet shop and saddlery, the ground floor of the property has been opened up to accommodate one very large reception area which is partially divided by a wood panelled partition.
The moment we stepped over the threshold, on the right hand of the passage we found ourselves ushered into what in other countries would be called the antechamber; the ground floor, however, was muddy and filthy, a large fire was burning, John James Audubon
A spokesman for the London fire brigade said that part of a flat on the ground floor was alight. Times, Sunday Times
The general appearance of the area will be greatly improved, particularly benefiting those people located in the ground floor annexe.
This would involve combining the ground floors of the town hall and Wiltshire College into one open plan area, and demolishing the current stairway to the mayor's parlour.
The south-west side also has a fully glazed ground floor set back behind pilotis, indicating the location of the most public interface: the day-patient clinic.
The farmhouse has four bedrooms upstairs and four rooms on the ground floor.
No matter the meshy relation from the person still is framework of technical ground floor, reflected adequately " You Xiushi bound " platform extends a gender.
We live in a ground floor flat which backs onto a busy street.
The guest rooms remain on the middle and top floors; the service rooms and kitchens have been reinstalled on the ground floor.
The reception, to the rear of the ground floor hall space, is all white with one purple wall to create a slightly softer and more welcoming space than the daringly dark remainder of the scheme, with white desking and a giant mirror on the chimney breast; a contemporary take on a baroque frame in opaque acrylic. Manchester Square Interior by SHH
The ground floor includes a bar and lounge, and the upstairs could be converted into a restaurant or function room, subject to planning permission.
As a nod to the contemporary lifestyle of the owners, and to add a sense of fluidity and lightness, most of the ground floor is open in plan.
By tapering the roof around the bedrooms and angling the front facade of the house, you maximise space on the ground floor, where you need it most. Times, Sunday Times
A four-storey tower or turret, containing large circular rooms, rises out of the ground floor, and is adorned with friezes of classical and renaissance detail.
The two storey semi-detached residence consists of a large ground floor area, previously a licensed premises, and toilets.
A few years ago the electricity went on the ground floor of our house. Times, Sunday Times
It has views out over the River Tweed and is on the ground floor of the building. The Sun
Our ground floor became a consulting room and two changing rooms for his patients. Times, Sunday Times
The disappearance of the whiff of chlorine that used to fill the ground floors of some houses may be another. Times, Sunday Times
There are wine bars and pub sin every setting from a converted canalside warehouse to the ground floor of a theatre!
They then ran to the main house and entered from the ground floor, checking the rooms. Times, Sunday Times
The chain tends to have a strong ground floor business through its brasseries and bars, and it hopes to carry this tradition into Belfast.
Sixty or so art and antiques dealers will occupy the ground floor, some twenty jewellers the lower level.
Annette joined a new company so she could get in on the ground floor . That way she can participate in the company's growth.
Beyond the ground floor, however, the transformation of the office building into lofts has taken a controversial turn.
Office seekers in Malton often declared a preference for ground floor accommodation with spaces for 50 cars outside the window.
He is now refurbishing the ground floor of the building and plans to open a late night bar and dance floor from Thursday to Saturday.
Once inside the ground floor, one can promenade through either by a ramp or a curving staircase.
The accommodation briefly comprises ground floor lounge bar, first floor mezzanine area, second floor catering kitchen (with service lift to bar area).
Nearly the entire ground floor had been blown out by the blast and what was left to support the building was burning.
Being built on four levels with the ground floor reserved for secure parking, the flats will have panoramic views north across the Forth estuary to Fife.
Walk on and you find more of those signposts with the boy's face, and in the last ground floor room two walls of gridded photographs of the head of Horn's niece, variously smiling, grinning and girning.
The same oak panelling also features on other walls, and in the guest bedroom on the ground floor. Times, Sunday Times
Most of the ground floor was inaccessible to the public, and was otherwise occupied by a small café and three temporary exhibition rooms. Times, Sunday Times
You can look down from the mezzanine into the ground floor lobby.
The fire spread across two ground floor rooms and caused 50 per cent fire damage to the downstairs.
Situated on the steps leading from ground floor to the mezzanine, entitled Artist's Breath, the work is infused with pathos and mystery.
The great hall of Gwerbret Cadmar occupied the entire ground floor of the main broch. A TIME OF WAR
The guest bedroom is on the ground floor and is en suite and there is a separate downstairs toilet nearby.
The owners have stayed true to the property's origins by installing features such as pitched pine floorboards throughout the ground floor, period fireplaces and a stained glass leaded window in the entrance porch.
On the ground floor one bay would serve as an entrance and utility room, with a stair to the first floor.
The first block to be completed houses a grocery store on the ground floor.
The ground floor and mezzanine will be occupied by the society and the rest will be given over to other offices.
The whole of the north side of the ground floor was devoted to the preparation and storage of food and drink. Malory: The Life and Times of King Arthur's Chronicler
On the ground floor were double doors and bays from which you could see the river. Times, Sunday Times
But in the 1820s the ground floor had a shopfront fitted. Times, Sunday Times
Amis and I are speaking on an "unamusingly cold" (his phrase) night in the first week of the new decade, in a large sitting room - really two rooms knocked together - on the raised ground floor of his imposing London town house, close to Regent's Park. Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
She showed him around the ground floor of the empty house.
We have spent quite a lot of time and money on decorating the ground floor and the upstairs was in pretty good condition.
There is little point in having a first aid kit on the ground floor if you cut your foot badly upstairs.
In the centre is an enormous circular counter … We ascend a broad staircase, which leads to ‘The Lounging Rooms’, and to the first of a series of circular galleries, lighted from the lantern of the dome, which also lights the ground floor. Big Box Bookstore of the 1790s
Ground floor and blue prints then,' and then even more playfully, `or I could maybe give you a piggyback. FALLEN WOMEN
The elevator always takes exactly 2 minutes to reach the ground floor. The Harper Dictionary of Science in Everyday Language
Residents looked on in tears as water receded slowly, offering the first glimpses of streets, squares and ground floors submerged in mud.
There are two bedrooms on the ground floor and two upstairs but there is also an unusual room which could be changed into a nursery if an extra room was needed.
The ground floor of the house has ramps so that disabled visitors get a chance to see the main rooms.
The ground floor is dominated by the open-plan sitting room, with sandstone flags incorporating a zoned, controlled underfloor heating system.
Office seekers in Malton often declared a preference for ground floor accommodation with spaces for 50 cars outside the window.
The fire, which is believed to have started in the cupboard that houses the electrics on the ground floor, took three hours to bring under control and more than 30 firefighters were involved.
Elsewhere, concrete replaces rotten wood floors, window frames have been repaired, and a mezzanine was installed on the ground floor to expand exhibition space.
So many came in that the ground floor and basement were full. Times, Sunday Times
The toilets were good, with the ladies on the ground floor and the gents upstairs.
The ground floor has a rustic bar with several tables in a single room.
We took the lift down to the ground floor.
Jenny now lives in a terraced ground floor flat.
There are three reception rooms on the ground floor, a large shaker style kitchen/family room, guest toilet and utility room.
In a ground floor flat in Belsize Park, I stowed my guitars in the cupboard and instead began propping the door open with the Oxford Handbook of Criminology.
Our ground floor apartment was perfectly accessible for my daughter. The Sun
There is a wine cellar in the basement, naturally, with the ground floor containing a living room, salon, kitchen and office.
Or maybe they are selling up to escape the hell of young family life in a house with an open-plan ground floor. Times, Sunday Times
The ground floor features a 20-foot bar crafted out of a solid slab of 45-year-old bubinga, or African rosewood; the piece they sourced was originally 8.5 feet in width, so they broke it down to create a series of four-top tables for the second floor. The Clog
The couple, from Doncaster, were sleeping in their first-floor bedroom when the first wave hit and floodwater washed through the ground floor of their hotel.
Sharing the building, on the ground floor, was a boulangerie that provided fresh bread and croissants each morning and delicious fruit tarts in the evenings.
They owned the ground floor flat; we rented the first floor. Times, Sunday Times
The ground floor can be accessed via a stairway from the inner hallway, but also has side access.
He will also meet and be shown around the ground floor flat of a woman who is confined to a wheelchair.
We had the restaurant on the ground floor and the building became available upstairs. Times, Sunday Times
When firefighters arrived thick smoke was billowing from the windows of three floors and flames were licking from the ground floor of the building, which is understood to be used as a market hall.
A lack of dividing walls meant the ground floors were prone to collapse. Times, Sunday Times
Mrs Rodgers, and her late husband Jimmy, lived in 41 Rodney Drive, diagonally across from the two houses where the police excavated ground floors and back gardens.
A utility room offers further storage and a cloakroom completes the ground floor accommodation.
A storeroom on the ground floor houses 12 cylinders, each with a capacity of 35 kg.
Built about 15 years ago, this three-bed mid-terrace red-brick house has an entrance hallway, kitchen/dining room, living room and a cloakroom on the ground floor.
The ground floor, which would be partially set below pavement level, would accommodate two single bedroom residential units.
Proposed changes include moving the box office, which is currently at the top of a steep flight of stairs, to the ground floor.
The doors opened on the ground floor, and he found himself confronting a despatch rider with a crash helmet. SEIZE THE RECKLESS WIND
So now you have a rather obtrusive opening on the ground floor with a view into an empty basement without stores or food outlets.
A rubbish recycling station was located on the ground floor of the apartment block and the only passage into the building was piled with rubbish.
It's on the ground floor of the condemned building where Wales is renting an office for a few months before the whole thing is pulled down. Times, Sunday Times
The lift reached the ground floor safely, but the extra weight tripped a brake and cut the power supply.
It's now almost seven years since the last huge blaze when flames swept through historic wooden framed High Street buildings with the butcher's shop and betting office on the ground floor.
One of the main features is the red ebony solid timber in the staircase and ground flooring.
From the ground floor of the church the viewer absorbs the impact of the immense church.
Originally a single-storey mews house, the property has been extensively enlarged with the basement dug out and three floors added to the ground floor. Times, Sunday Times
The first reception room, a dual aspect family/dining room, is located on the ground floor and has a maple floor, recessed lighting and double doors to the garden.
Underneath the cantilever, glass panels between the beams form a band of clerestorey glazing admitting daylight to the ground floor.
The York National Book Fair, which will be taking over the ground floor of the Barbican Centre on Friday and Saturday, is the largest rare, antiquarian and out-of-print book fair in Europe.
He'd been through the ground floor of the house, tipping the contents of my handbag into a flower bed and taking the cash, swiftly going through desk drawers.
It has four bedrooms, an almost entirely open-plan ground floor and an underground garage. Times, Sunday Times
We live in a ground floor flat which backs onto a busy street.
The exterior walls are of prefabricated wood sandwich panels except at the ground floor and on the gable walls, where the exterior shell is brick.

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