Attics

Attics and basements may already be full of other treasures, leaving no room for that new holiday display you bought this year.

Make sure that if you don’t use your closet for storage, you avoid areas where there is direct sunlight or too much moisture, like in basements or attics.

There are so many treasures you don't realise are in people's attics.

This can lead them into attics, exterior wall voids, and spaces around door jams and window frames.

Back on the agenda last week for a second reading, Councilman Peter Buas proposed an ordinance change that would not incorporate supplemental parking but would redefine accessory rooms to include finished habitable attics.

But early Saturday morning, a fire engulfed a house under construction at 151 Longpré St. and spread to the attics of two nearby homes, leaving the residents displaced.

FREEPORT, Bahamas (AP) — Practically parking over the Bahamas for over a day and a half, Hurricane Dorian pounded away at the islands Tuesday in a watery onslaught that devastated thousands of homes, trapped people in attics and crippled hospitals.

On Monday, Hurricane Dorian unleashed massive flooding across the Bahamas on Monday, pummeling the islands with so much wind and water that authorities urged people to find floatation devices and grab hammers to break out of their attics if necessary.

Practically parking over the Bahamas for a day and a half, Dorian pounded away at the islands Tuesday in a watery onslaught that devastated thousands of homes, trapped people in attics and crippled hospitals.

The catastrophic onslaught sent floodwaters up to the second floors of some buildings, trapped people in attics and led to others fleeing from one shelter to another.

The storm's punishing winds and muddy brown floodwaters devastated thousands of homes, crippled hospitals and trapped people in attics.

Historically, many nondisabled persons viewed people with disabilities as a family shame, a “freak show,” or an anomaly; as such, they locked them away in almshouses, institutions or even attics.

It’s the top of flea market season, calling out to all the bargain-focused putterers and treasure hunters and discerning shoppers to set free a few lucky finds as they browse through the ephemera of other people’s garages and attics.

It was a drafty Georgian house crammed to the attics with women and children who’d fled from violent men.

Progressive rabbis and social activists have called for Israelis to hide the refugees in attics and cellars, just as Europeans once protected Jews from their persecutors.

Unlike Anne Frank and thousands of other Jews who spent all or part of World War II sequestered in attics, caves or sewers, Rose Zar survived the Holocaust by hiding in the open.

I am the product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstair indoor silences, attics explored in solitude, distant noises of gurgling cisterns and pipes, and the noise of wind under the tiles.

In the Americas, Madeira was traditionally stored in the warm attics of houses.

Mica is also used as an insulator in concrete block and home attics, and can be poured into walls (usually in retrofitting uninsulated open top walls).

The façade was ornamented with marble columns, and the piers and attics with decorative cornices.