She loves pondering who used the hidden stairs to the kitchen, how the cistern in the basement worked and if there were one or two chimneys in her and her husband Alex Ball's "fixer-upper" home.

She loves pondering who used the hidden stairs to the kitchen, how the cistern in the basement worked and if there were one or two chimneys in her and her husband Alex Ball’s “fixer-upper” home.

In here, the flushing system on the toilet cistern almost reaches the ceilings ... There were also plans in 2016 to create a lower-ground floor from the basement, but this did not materialise. With ...

To keep the roof garden green and growing, the Hartley has a 90,000-gallon cistern in the basement collecting water runoff from the building. That water is pumped back to the roof to a pop-up ...

A small basement gym takes shape in what was the old cistern. Quadrat, a focused Mediterranean restaurant, occupies the one-time stables and extends into the courtyard garden. All the 42 rooms are ...

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As the location did not possess wells, rainwater was collected from roofs and through a system of canals cut through the rock so that five cisterns could be filled. These were located under the paving ...

KAWARTHA LAKESMy very first memory of Mom is standing by my crib, which was beside my parents’ bed. I liked the Sun Bonnet ...

Our latest lookbook brings together six sun-catching examples. To make the most of the UK's sparse sunlight, many of these basement extensions and sunken houses introduce skylights and lightwells ...

The cistern has been broken but we hate to admit it. The water of spiritual power has drained away and we try to be content with the sands of futile human endeavor.