The garden lies on a level just below the first-floor ceiling, and it's a constant presence inside.

He plans to remove the first-floor ceiling at the front of the building to create a double-height architectural office.

Three-foot-high drifts of muck fouled the interior, and the scummy waterline was just four inches from the first-floor ceiling.

The first-floor ceiling is low and painted white, along with the insides of the window frames, to brighten the room.

It was business as usual yesterday beneath the soaring first-floor ceiling of Tiffany's.

Waugh also designed two light fixtures for the first-floor ceilings bounding the north and south ends of the atrium.

But the system failed because five other valves, behind separate panels in the first-floor ceilings, were closed.

Parts of a first-floor ceiling have collapsed over the last two years, ruining original hand-stenciled walls and damaging historical paintings.

"Through a join in the wire, through the first-floor ceiling, up through the second-floor ceiling, and out the roof."

Chaz led the vampire into an abandoned house; the place was partially demolished and there was a gaping hole where the first-floor ceiling should have been.