ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD APARTMENT
From French appartement, from Italian appartamento, from appartare to set on one side, separate.
10 QUOTES WITH «APARTMENT»
Famous quotes and sentences with the word
apartment.
I started out by believing God for a newer car than the one I was driving. I started out believing God for a nicer apartment than I had. Then I moved up.
I always wanted to be an actor, but I always loved design, and growing up in New Orleans there was such great style, great architecture. I would decorate my little apartment in New York over and over again, because it only had a couple of rooms. And I did it for friends and family on the side just for fun.
I like to walk around my apartment naked. I like sitting around in the nude watching sports, actually.
I've been performing since I was very little, about three years old. I was inspired at first by the MTV artists of the '80s and started putting on 'shows' in the apartment, most of them set to Michael Jackson's 'Bad' album. In my mind, there was a full lighting rig behind me... but it was just a couch.
After student years of flat-sharing and living with other people's taste, I went into decorating overdrive when I acquired my first apartment - its floor plan not much bigger than the vintage Hermes scarves I then wore side-knotted on my head, pirate-style.
I seemed to belong to three countries: I had an apartment in Paris, a house in Hollywood, and when I married British theater director Peter Hall, I moved to London.
Alien abduction movies are always the scariest; no matter how cheesy they are, they still scare me for a week. I live by myself in my apartment, and I don't worry about intruders or robbery; I mostly worry about alien abduction or evil, mean ghosts.
Someone skipped on the rent and they left behind a huge upright piano, which got moved into our apartment so the other apartment could get rented out. I took to it and started playing.
My idea of working out is going upstairs in my apartment.
Every hotel room, every apartment we rent, I am sage-ing. And I have crystals that I travel with. It just makes me feel better.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «APARTMENT»
Discover the use of
apartment in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
apartment and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The First
Apartment Book: Cool Design for Small Spaces
Full of bold, vibrant photos, an extensive resource section, and hundreds of big ideas for small spaces, this book proves that there are no limits on how spacious and how cool your first apartment can feel. From the Trade Paperback edition.
Kyle Schuneman, Heather Summerville, 2012
2
The
Apartment Book: A Day in Five Stories
Illustrates a day in the life of an apartment building by showing activities going on in different units at various times between 7:00 a.m. and 1:00 a.m.
Leo Hartas, Richard Platt, 1995
3
Apartment Therapy: The Eight-Step Home Cure
Here is an eight-step process that includes: A therapeutic questionnaire to help you get in touch with your personal taste and diagnose your home’s physical, emotional, and energy flow issues A prescription with recommendations for each ...
The Apartment, the astonishing first novel by Greg Baxter, is a tale of war and peace, friendship and aloneness.
5
Apartment Therapy's Big Book of Small, Cool Spaces
The creator of the top design website Apartment Therapy shares creative strategies for making the most out of small spaces, providing coverage of how to add comfort and style for a range of needs.
Maxwell Gillingham-Ryan, 2010
6
Apartment Stories: City and Home in Nineteenth-century Paris ...
But what of the city's homes? In the course of answering this question, "Apartment Stories" provides a singular and radically new framework for understanding the urban and the domestic.
7
Help! My
Apartment Has a Kitchen Cookbook: 100 + Great ...
My Apartment Has a Kitchen ▽ If you want to halve a recipe that calls for 1 egg,
use 1 medium egg. If you're doubling a recipe that calls for 1 egg, you could
either use 2 eggs or 1 extra-large or jumbo egg. Should I Blindly Trust My Oven?
Kevin Mills, Nancy Mills, 2006
8
Zenana: Everyday Peace in a Karachi
Apartment Building
A rare, intimate glimpse into the daily lives of middle-class women in urban Pakistan
9
The
Apartment Book: Smart Decorating for Spaces Large and Small
A decorating handbook for apartment dwellers explains how to transform large or small spaces into a home that reflects one's taste and personality, combining nearly three hundred full-color photographs, floor plans, informational sidebars, ...
10
How to Buy and Sell
Apartment Buildings
In this bestselling guide, the Volluccis’ simple, step-by-step program shows you how to become a real estate millionaire just like they did.
Eugene E. Vollucci, Stephen Vollucci, 2004
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «APARTMENT»
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apartment is used in the context of the following news items.
Bedside candle to blame for apartment fire
Firefighters in Dayton battle flames from an apartment building in the 100 block of Santa Clara Avenue on July 6. (Jarod Thrush/Staff) ... «WHIO, Jul 15»
Developer blocked from moving into apartment — for 16 years
He bought the Manhattan apartment space for more than $2 million in 1999 — and is still waiting to move in! Prominent real estate developer ... «New York Post, Jul 15»
Man shot to death inside DeKalb apartment
DeKalb County Police said the victim invited the suspects into his apartment. At some point, the suspects shot the victim, then left. The victim's ... «WXIA-TV, Jul 15»
Help! My old apartment building is so damn hot
Q. I live in an old 1920s apartment with great light and a southern exposure. Because of its age, the insulation has all rotted out, so the thick plaster walls heat up ... «Grist, Jul 15»
Family Displaced After San Pedro Apartment Fire; Investigation Into …
Investigators were trying to determine if a fire that ripped through a San Pedro apartment on Sunday, displacing a family, was intentionally set ... «KTLA, Jul 15»
Neighbor: Dallas man found bound and killed in apartment
A neighbor told News 8 he discovered his neighbor dead inside a third-floor apartment with his hands tied behind his head and all the furniture ... «WFAA, Jul 15»
Mother says mold in apartment is making child sick
Ethaca Truitt says she has been complaining about the apartment to management at Sonoma Ridge for months. She says they won't let her out ... «WSB Atlanta, Jul 15»
Madison-area apartment construction still booming
This is the living room of a model apartment at Domain, a new, 12-story, luxury apartment tower in Downtown Madison that opened to its first ... «Madison.com, Jul 15»
Hot rental market drives apartment deals
On the flip side, more builders are turning their eye to apartment ... Properties is taking a second stab at a $37 million apartment project. «Knoxville News Sentinel, Jul 15»
Apartment Building With Staircase Death Had Earlier Collapse
A falling staircase that killed a tenant at a Northern California apartment building was due to be repaired after another set of steps collapsed a ... «NBC Bay Area, Jul 15»
