Pigeons flew in and out of the large, drafty prison.
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If your doors are also drafty, install a door sweep.
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Drafty windows and doors could send your heating bill soaring.
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It was raining heavily, and the space was cold and drafty.
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She lives on an abandoned commune in a bleak, drafty cabin.
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The basement space was drafty, not a surprise for Detroit in the winter.
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One of the main hotels, a graceless rectangular prism, became a drafty concrete husk.
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Move all plants away from heat vents, drafty windows, and intense sun spots. 5.
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Years ago, I was stuck working out of a cold, drafty basement in Michigan.
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They had taped clear plastic over it, hoping the room would feel less drafty.
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When they saw their room at the new hostel, Andy panicked: it was drafty.
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Sometimes in the winters they'd wake up under snow that passed through the drafty roof.
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"Clear plastic that goes over the window is really great for drafty windows," Leal says.
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The shape provided warmth in winter and served as a wind block inside drafty houses.
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Not all the windows shut tightly, and there are more (drafty) doors than strictly necessary.
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Corbyn grew up in large, drafty houses, first in Chippenham and then Pave Lane, in Shropshire.
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It wouldn't give off much heat within the drafty walls, but it's good enough for Her Majesty.
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Drafty windows and gaps under a door can defeat much of the work of an air conditioner.
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Our Brooklyn townhouse is drafty this time of year, so sipping hot beverages all day long helps.
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As it turns out, this drafty old house is more open and welcoming than it is perfect.
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If I wanted a drafty, wet bathroom, I'd move back into the old farmhouse I grew up in.
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Serena gets the leg up when she dashes into June's drafty bedroom and pins her into a chokehold.
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But a drafty house or inefficient heating system could result in a bigger-than-expected bill, said Frappolli.
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Though picturesque, after decades of neglect it was so drafty the bootmakers worked wearing overcoats and fingerless gloves.
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I was living in a big drafty place in the winter in upstate New York — it felt haunted.
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I think of the drafty insides of these houses, the furniture left behind, the pictures on the walls.
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Sven had long ago moved to Glasgow from Stuttgart, and seemed perfectly at home in this quiet, drafty environment.
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Syrians typically pay $100 to a landowner to build drafty, uninsulated breezeblock shelters with flimsy plastic tarpaulins as roofs.
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Some days, she was the only worker on duty, color-coding orchids in some drafty greenhouse with a broken boiler.
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Black and White were shown to a drafty stone room in the basement that smelled of dust and old cardboard.
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Sometimes those cold and drafty Saturday afternoons learning kata in the Marble Factory often felt like the bilge end of "satori".
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Rustic black, wide-planked floors are made from repurposed wood, and long black shutters help keep the otherwise drafty rooms warm.
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Scaffolding has already appeared at its base, and the building's gurgling pipes, drafty windows and creaky elevators will all be replaced.
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My parents were raised observing religion the normal way, faithfully attending services in drafty old buildings with beautiful stained glass windows.
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When the coat finally lost its top button, I spent a whole winter season feeling slightly drafty and hoping nobody would notice.
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"Bohème," the other Zeffirelli, comes into intimate focus when the singers are strong and specific; on Wednesday it seemed looming and drafty.
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"The Lost House" could be an adventurous spread from an architecture magazine: the creaky, drafty ancestral home of an eccentric Irish lord.
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In 1911 the brilliant harpsichord pioneer Wanda Landowska discovered the piano languishing in the same drafty monastery where Chopin and Sand had stayed.
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The sensors do a great job of taking accurate temperature readings and help regulate the comfort settings in my drafty, three-story house.
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Its home games, in drafty Olympic Stadium in Berlin, reach capacity only when more prominent teams visit, as was the case on Jan.
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Out with the "cold, drafty place" of patriotic austerity (as Ms. Paley put it) cultivated by the White House's previous inhabitant, Thomas Jefferson.
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It's full of details (fabrics, weather, food) and emotions — jealousy and fear (not much love) — that make his drafty, dangerous world come to life.
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WHEN (AND HOW) TO TAKE IT OUT If your apartment gets drafty or your light is limited, you probably want the air-conditioner out.
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If you have a drafty decorative fireplace, cut a piece of foam core to fit the back or opening to block the cold air.
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I grew up watching my mother make quilts so that we wouldn't catch a chill from the winds that whistled through the drafty house.
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Had they not the Belgium and Australian fans outside in the drafty concourses would have been waiting even longer to cheer their teams on.
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Through all the external turmoil, Elizabeth is relatively untouched, focused on family affairs, surrounded by her corgis, walking through rooms in the drafty palace.
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They can be used for literally anything: as a way to block a drafty window, Easter-egg bunny ears, bedroom slippers, and makeshift armpit wipes.
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My childhood bedroom and twice-yearly vacation quarters is a somewhat drafty wi-fi dead zone that's full to bursting with my parents' wardrobe overspill.
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Roderick Dwayne Belin, a senior A.M.E. Church leader, stood before a gathering of more than 1,393 pastors in a drafty Marriott ballroom in Naperville, Ill.
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I hiked to the far north of Venice to see the church where he prayed, the drafty Madonna dell'Orto, where his bones lie beneath the tiles.
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"We weren't allowed to go to see him," said Lai Yuanlong, a 40-year-old Hakka farmer, leaning over a smoky wood fire in his drafty home.
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It took seven years (many more for ASoIaF readers) for fire and ice to meet, and studdenly there's palpable chemistry warming up the drafty rooms of Dragonstone.
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The full-time faculty member who shares the office, whom you have yet to meet, has the desk at the rear, a preferred space beside the drafty window.
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" He liked Britain for Boy George and Culture Club, for its cooked breakfasts, carpeted bathrooms, drafty windows, spongy bread, Silk Cut cigarettes, and "the repressed but omnipresent sexuality.
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The only question that need trouble her now: How does one avoid going slowly and irrevocably insane in a drafty castle the size of an Italian hill town?
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We recently moved to a drafty old house with lots of bookcases, so I've been gleefully arranging my books into the rooms where they seem most at home.
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The neighborhood became a sort of engine for Western culture after World War II, with Beats, artists, musicians and oddballs flooding the cheap, drafty rooms in rundown brownstones.
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Gangloff works alone on the second floor of a drafty warehouse building in Astoria, Queens, eight blocks away from a studio occupied by her husband, the painter Benjamin Degen.
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Their new two-and-three story houses, made of drywall, are drafty and appear flimsy compared to their old thatched-roof adobe cottages heated by wood-fired stoves, some said.
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Joints of freshly butchered lamb are hung in a wooden shed, known as a hjallur , that is chinked with drafty gaps, allowing the islands' incessant winds to blow through it.
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If you're a renter, you know that drafty windows, sketchy radiators, and unfathomably high heating bills are all part of the joy of living in a building you don't own.
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The second best thing is that all 72 exhibitors are in a single room, albeit a large and drafty one: You can take it all in with a leisurely stroll.
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On Sunday, after the boys have been tucked in bed, Margaret does the dishes, the warm water an antidote to the drafty window over the sink, to the cold tile floors.
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On weekdays, between fajr and dhuhr prayers, the drafty main hall grows raucous as dozens of women in black abayas and colored hijabs arrive in waves of banter and warm greetings.
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The sculptor Augusta Savage abruptly left her home in Harlem in the early 20143s for a drafty farmhouse in Saugerties, N.Y. The reasons for her departure are only now becoming public.
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"So I hear you're afraid of the dark!" the uncle says to Maurice with a snort at their first dinner, which is by candlelight in the great, dark, drafty dining hall.
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Standing in a drafty V.F.W. hall strung with American-flag bunting and Christmas lights, he told an audience about the time he went to a White House event on education reform.
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The upstairs rooms, Ms. Radest said, are now far less drafty in the winter, and her daughter's, which has two exterior walls, was cooler this summer than it had been before.
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We don't necessarily want to live in Downton Abbey — it's drafty, the hot water comes and goes — but we want to live in the idea of it as much as ever.
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There she lived in a drafty Quonset hut, walked planks over muddy paths and, with her Red Cross comrades, met the B-26 Marauders limping home from missions over the Continent.
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After a pause, the terrified Maurice gets out of his chair and turns, and moaning, he wobbles slowly into the dark shadows at the back of the great, gloomy, drafty dining hall.
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At the railroad stop, the lover of the downtrodden buys fourth-class tickets so he can be with the peasants, but hours in the drafty, unheated railcar give Tolstoy chills and fever.
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Londoners stayed away in droves from the drafty former smokehouse near Smithfield Market (the anchor of that city's meatpacking district at the time, and just as deserted at night as Manhattan's was).
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"My wife said to me when we moved up: 'I'm not living in a drafty, cold house, or a dark one,'" he said during a visit to the estate in mid-September.
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At the other end of the temperature spectrum, cold snaps have left children shivering in schools with malfunctioning boilers and drafty windows that do little to protect them when temperatures dip below zero.
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Many senior Warren staffers stayed behind in the drafty historic church and got in Warren's "selfie" line to take a picture with their boss and celebrate the one-year anniversary of the campaign.
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Still others want to earn money by fixing up drafty houses that waste huge amounts of energy, just as millions of houses, with their leaky windows and barely insulated attics, do across the country.
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Here at Insider Picks, I keep the trusty Barista Express deskside, and I find myself having to tweak and dial my grind settings just about every morning — granted, this is a drafty office building.
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Sarah Carpenter's drafty farmhouse, perched on a gusty North Yorkshire moor that's all "tussocky windblown grass, clouds racing overhead, drops of icy rain when you're not expecting them," is the very definition of desolate.
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Behind the vast arched wall on the street side was a blocky postwar cube that once held back-office operations, and, across a haphazardly asphalted courtyard, a couple of drafty, bare-bones garage bays.
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For his fall 2017 show, held in a drafty garage near the Place d'Iéna, Mr. Van Beirendonck booked Seidä Pass, a band that looked like a group of metalhead trolls freshly summoned from hell.
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"Portrait of a Lady on Fire" obeys all the accepted conventions of juicy gothic romance: In a drafty mansion on a windswept coast, a mismatched couple tries to ignore the irresistible pull of forbidden love.
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What was important there in the design was that Matt wanted the sense that the prisoners were absolutely freezing, and that it was a drafty, cold space where light kind of dripped in on them.
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At a drafty old church we learned something surprising about Vance, then had an eye-opening reunion with Herb in Muir Beach — followed by a terrific lunch among the surfers and Frisbees of Stinson Beach.
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You're relegated to a table in a drafty corner, and while so-and-so is chatting with their friend or their significant other, you're on your phone scrolling through spam emails trying to look busy.
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The building also had drafty copper-clad wood-framed windows, which resulted in manuscripts flying around offices and snow drifts forming on the window sills, said Mr. Sargent, who is now chief executive of Macmillan.
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As I ate and sipped my drink in what felt like a chic personal bubble, I noticed that while I still needed to wear my coat, it wasn't drafty or overly chilly inside the igloo.
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But Mr. Macron, at times sounding defensive, seemed most at pains to reassure his critics on the left in his speech Tuesday, in a frigid and drafty hangar at a windswept police barracks in Calais.
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It was drafty, cold and damp (like most housing in this part of the country), but the cost of an extra sweater and a dehumidifier was worth the extra $220 per month I saved this way.
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Intimacy so stressful to you, your heartbeat has quickened, pinpricks of sweat are breaking out on your upper body beneath your clothes though the air in the office is cold from the drafty, ill-fitting window.
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Many residents of the Castle Hill Houses, a sprawling housing development in the Bronx, live with windows that are old and drafty, interior doors that no longer close and kitchen appliances that have seen better days.
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Lyla was more urgent about her reasons for wanting to move soon, and abandon the drafty old fur trapper's cabin they have been living in, with hooks still on the beams from which hides once hung.
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And sometimes the fascination lay in the sheer unlikelihood of such an author existing at all, amid the most inauspicious circumstances: a houseful of children, a ne'er-do-well husband, a spindly desk in a drafty hallway.
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Also for beef and broccoli, which offers me time spent at the wok, refining my stir-fry technique, no different from practicing scales on the uke or drop shots on a drafty squash court — except more delicious.
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Though I had some initial trouble getting the SmartSensors to connect — a bug that Ecobee has since fixed — I've found they are accurate and do a great job of regulating the heat in my large, drafty house.
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King's Landing is pretty drafty, but we're probably supposed to make the connection between her and the Night King, since we fade to black on Cersei before zooming out to reveal the frosty blue eye of the villain.
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Ms. Shi and her husband, who had also lost his job at Songting, were unable to find steady work, leaving her scrimping to support her two young children in a drafty concrete house not far from Songting's plant.
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The cold is creeping in through drafty windowsills, Central Park once again smells like decomposing leaves and roasted peanuts, and cashmere and wool coats — the unofficial mascots of the winter season — are being unfolded from their summertime storage.
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The average house or office building constructed today is required to have better windows and insulation than the drafty old buildings we used to put up, so that a new building wastes far less energy over its lifetime.
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According to Airbnb, people are royally obsessed with the idea of ringing in the new year in a drafty stone building that may have once housed nobles — and the vacation home-booking site is more than happy to oblige.
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In The Ghost: A Cultural History, recently released by Tate Publishing, author Susan Owens begins not with the specters of Halloween or some drafty Victorian haunted house, but with this scene where Scrooge is visited by his former partner.
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"Your expectation that our members and the children that they teach endure bursting boilers, drafty windows, frigid temperatures in classrooms, and risk getting sick in these 'less than ideal' conditions, is utterly ridiculous," she wrote to the school CEO.
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But its $250 price tag meant you really had to know you were going to use it around the house — for identifying drafty windows, for checking leaky pipes, to see things in dim or dark rooms — before you bought it.
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Caterpillar and Flir are marketing at people with extremely specific needs, like park rangers who want to be able to spot animals in the dark, or people who remodel homes and need to check for leaky pipes or drafty windows.
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I spent the most time in his drafty, nicotine-stained townhouse on Vandam Street, but I also visited him at his house in Mattituck, on Long Island, and in his sun-drenched apartment overlooking the East River, near his company's studios.
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Emulating the interior of the Armani hotel in Milan, Mr. Armani, 83, transformed a drafty warehouse on the Thames into a sleek nightclub, all lilac uplighting, low leather couches and what seemed to be a never-ending flow of Champagne.
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With her razor-sharp bob, Mary Talbot looked particularly dangerous, I thought, as she patrolled the environs, so I was unprepared for her to get gooey at the news that Granny is going to that big drafty castle in the sky.
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The average homeowner pays $2,000 to heat or cool their homes, according to the Department of Energy, and as much as $400 is going to waste by slipping through drafty windows, poorly insulated attics and outdated heating and cooling systems.
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In Schenectady, N.Y., it got so cold and drafty that Chris Bendix, an engineering student, rigged up a "blanket cave" by raising a bed, hanging blankets from the side and sleeping inside the makeshift cave, snug against the baseboard heaters.
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But she still goes in for the final blow — one that resonates far beyond the confines of that drafty warehouse, or even the century in which she's saying it: You gotta find what it means for you to be a soldier.
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The drafty spartan gym is quite a contrast to the Enri tennis club, which has couches courtside and cappuccinos at the bar, and even more of a contrast to the center courts of the world where Ostapenko now earns her very good living.
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In 2014, after the Balazs plan faded, the Port Authority issued a third request for proposals, and this time, Mr. Morse said, his company was big enough to take on the task of renovating a drafty, deteriorating monument to aviation's golden age.
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Although there are no exact figures for how many sharia councils exist in the U.K — estimates range between 30 and 80 — standards vary hugely, with councils ranging from organized committees attached to larger mosques to a single scholar holed up in a drafty office.
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Foam and V-channel (or tension seal) weather stripping helps to eliminate drafty windows while still allowing you to open the windows on warmer days; Lowe's has a helpful how-to, and you can find the gear there, online or at any decent hardware store.
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After all, an English stately home was drafty, isolated and so devoid of creature comforts that a cosseted American heiress might find she had to take her evening ablutions in a tin hip bath filled with lukewarm water hauled up in buckets by a housemaid.
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UNFINISHED BUSINESS Notes of a Chronic Re-ReaderBy Vivian Gornick Of all the things that haunt me about my drafty, tired old house, it is the books, sitting boxed up in the basement without sufficient shelving to hold them, that give me the most distress.
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At a white-themed dinner for 40 people last month hosted by royalty at the cavernous, drafty Victoria & Albert Museum, Lady Elizabeth marched over to "my little Indian caftan man on the Portobello Road" and bought a load of white pashminas to drape on each chair.
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The youngest of four daughters born to a haberdasher who had once tried to break into vaudeville and a homemaker mother who later worked as a secretary, she grew up in "a big, old, drafty, kind of awful farmhouse" in a rural area outside of Topeka, Kan.
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What might have seemed contrived and stagy — the hippie ballads; the vintage sound system; the harmonious, though drafty, old structure — was instead organic to Mr. Nakamura's way of seeing, and consistent with the concept of wabi-sabi, the Zen-based aesthetic philosophy that finds beauty in imperfection.
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My kid sister and I loved the playground and grassy field that the apartment overlooked—you could check who was out there and sprint down in a breath—and my mother appreciated the southeast-facing windows, as drafty as they were, for the brightness they let in.
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But the bigger challenge is what to do with the 27 million existing homes, many of which are old and drafty and the vast majority of which are heated with gas-burning boilers and would have to be replaced, Mr. Kazaglis said, with electric heat pumps.
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"We're not Florida people," said Mr. Johnson, who was a high school biology teacher, explaining that afternoons spent poolside and balmy winters held little appeal — for decades the couple had kept the thermostat of their drafty house, which they shared with two cats, set to 61 degrees.
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The country must battle the perception around the world that without the EU the whole of Britain will become a caricature of the most dilapidated members its aristocracy, a hollowed-out set poor in cash and rich in condescension, the kind whose drafty estates are rented out for fairy-tale weddings.
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The lofts, as they would come to be called — entire floors in former factories and warehouses gone to seed — were drafty in winter, noisy in summer and challenged when it came to plumbing, but who cared when you were getting thousands of feet of raw space for as little as $21970 a month?
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Create your own version of this at El Preferido de Palermo, an elegant high-ceilinged restaurant with old-fashioned accents that the owner, Pablo Rivera (also the owner of nearby Don Julio, the famous steakhouse that you have to book months in advance, or queue for hours), has chosen to retain, like the drafty wood-outlined windows and the tile floor.
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While half of the time we're busy planning gatherings, shopping for gifts, or just trying to get through another day at work before our holiday vacation starts, we're also dealing with the changing weather and how it's affecting us (and our homes.) Unless you're rocking a Nest Thermostat in every room, it's easy for things to get drafty — or even stuffy — depending on the size of your home.
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Indeed many of my favorite writers, the ones I read in my college bed with the covers pulled up over my head so that I could be alone with their words — John Cheever, Alice Munro, Ann Beattie, Grace Paley, Lorrie Moore, Raymond Carver, Richard Ford, Andre Dubus — were all published in the pages edited and checked in the stately, drafty building at 20 West 43rd Street where The New Yorker was then housed, a short distance from its longtime home at 25 West 2009rd Street.
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Occupation: EngineerIndustry: InfrastructureAge: 24Location: Philadelphia, PASalary: $63,400Paycheck Amount (Biweekly): $1,18.253 Monthly ExpensesRent: $750 for my half (I live with my boyfriend, and we split the rent of our one-bedroom down the middle.)Student Loan Payment: $0 (I got significant financial aid for undergrad, and my incredibly generous grandparents covered the rest.)Vision Insurance: $4.66, taken out of each paycheck pre-taxHealth Insurance: $67, taken out of each paycheck pre-taxPhone: $30 ASPCA Donation: $19 Renters Insurance: $7.92 for my halfNetflix: $0 (I use my parents' account.)HBO Go: $0 (We use my boyfriend's parents' account.)Internet: $113 (My boyfriend pays.)Electric: $70-$200 (We live in a drafty apartment with electric heat, so this varies wildly from summer to winter.)Acorns: $216.67 (I invest $50 once a week, which comes out to $216.67 monthly.
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