In either case, he said, a machine that would adequately filter a 400-square-foot room with an eight-foot ceiling would cost about $400.

It was at least thirty feet square and had over an eight-foot ceiling.

The house had been built with eight-foot ceilings, to accommodate him, but his fists brushed the pine beams, even so.

In a room with an eight-foot ceiling, using a paddle fan may result in heating-cost savings of only 1 or 2 percent a year.

Put that bed in a room with an eight-foot ceiling and, he said, "the bedrooms look like this vast sea of bed and nothing else."

As the average New York apartment has eight-foot ceilings, this is a season of miracles.

It was a vast space, perhaps sixty by eighty feet, but with the same eight-foot ceiling bearing down on your head.

"But with a 96-inch drapery for an eight-foot ceiling, that's two inches."

Why, that would make its visitors' room only ten or fifteen feet square, with a mere eight-foot ceiling.

Then, the architect did the unthinkable: lowering the already stingy eight-foot ceiling by an additional four inches.