Sentences with phrase «ramshackle houses»

In the end, the generally impoverished look of Belize City, created primarily by the tiny ramshackle houses in the neighborhoods, is partly a misleading one.

Another aspect of my experiences growing up that you'll see reflected in the book is the sharp dichotomy between the haves and haves - not - the town that's booming with development while just on the other side of the forest there's a village that is crushingly poor; or the skyscrapers going up in full view of ramshackle houses.

Captivated by the idea of backyard self - sufficiency, Novella Carpenter transforms an abandoned lot next to her ramshackle house in inner - city Oakland into a wonderful urban farm.

Perhaps 10 years ago, the scenario had been what i imagined, with men swooping in, and women keen to swap the hard grind of poverty - stricken ukraine for a new life in the us, even if it was a ramshackle house in a north dakotan town or a sleepy midwestern farm, rather than a manhattan penthouse or la beachfront home.

Unfortunately, he buys his home with his heart, not his head, and winds up with dilapidated, ramshackle house that, in the long run is cheaper to tear down and build over.

Deadline reports that Enos is set to play Vicki Hutcheson, a mother with an eight - year - old boy who lives in a ramshackle house in West Memphis.

The inherited property comprises a ramshackle house and a vast tract of land on which nothing has ever been grown — the function of the land, for the grandfather, was simply to protect the business from prying eyes.

But Arcadia isn't a charming small town; it's a ramshackle house in western New York that is home to a utopian community.

Veblen is just fine on her own, living in a ramshackle house in Palo Alto and translating from the Norwegian in her spare time.

Growing up on a farm in rural Mexico, where authorities turned a blind eye to the polygamous practices of her community, Ruth lives in a ramshackle house without indoor plumbing or electricity.

Happily I already knew quite a lot about painting and decorating from owning a ramshackle house in London for many years.

Yes, there are some areas with ramshackle housing and slow - moving canals, but Belize City also has stately colonial - era homes, lively shopping districts, beachfront amusement parks, and a flotilla of graceful sailboats.

Also, go on a guided tour up Richard Prince's driveway, past a parked 1973 Dodge Barracuda, where you'll get a close peek at his anti-monument of countercultural ephemera — a partially renovated, partially ramshackle house - work «painstakingly crafted to be almost impossible to find.»

Showcased in the documentary that shares the home's name, the Beales lived their lives out in the isolated, ramshackle house along with three dozen cats, a couple of raccoons in the attic, and zero litter boxes.

Not exact matches

After traveling around Europe, overseeing the restoration of a ramshackle 19th - century country house in Burgundy, and simply enjoying life for a while, she began freelancing for various magazines and websites, including International Living, Forbes.com, Bankrate.com, and many others.

He says this matter - of - factly as you begin walking through a scrubby field to an old white farm house, ramshackled and sagging, in need of paint, but generously proportioned and graced with a wraparound veranda.

Also remarkable was the House that Hulman Built, the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, which, when he bought it in 1945, was a ramshackle ruin after four years of wartime disuse.

Their house sits among a cluster of ramshackle buildings at the end of a dirt track.

He squatted in a ramshackle old house next door to our own that was also on the property.

A young woman, ROSE, working a summer job for her father's land development company, is tasked to deliver an eviction notice to a reclusive old woman living in a ramshackle farm house.

When her latest boyfriend Warren (Troy Skog) is shipped off to jail for cultivating marijuana and their house becomes an off - limits crime scene, Joleen uproots with her daughter Tera (Anna Sophia - Robb) to the ramshackle apartment of her younger brother, James (Nick Stahl).

I thought about it even more during Black Panther, his globe - trotting Marvel superhero extravaganza that nonetheless begins and ends with sad, streetwise children talking smack on an Oakland housing project's ramshackle basketball court.

Trapped in a ramshackle suburban house with leaking pipes, she's trying to bring up her kids while ex-husband and nightclub entertainer Tony (Edgar Ramirez) lives in the basement and her neurotic mother Terry (Virginia Madsen) permanently occupies one bedroom, where she watches TV soaps 24/7 (Joy's family hell, pictured above).

He leaves his cubicle at work each day to return to a small room attached to a ramshackle garage just a few feet from the house where his brother Gus (Paul Schneider) and sister - in - law Karin (Emily Mortimer) reside.

Bite off the job of changing the world and this is where you find yourself: driving on a desolate Oklahoma road, past chicken farms and trailers, turning onto a muddy lane, and stopping in the ruts outside a ramshackle old house where a lazy black dog watches over the littered yard.

A gospel - and - blues - hued musical score provides the soundtrack for a slow - moving montage of dusty Delta sunsets, rusty river barges, ramshackle storefronts and rickety wood - frame houses lining crumbling streets.

After a toaster falls from an attic in the ramshackle Victorian house that 14 - year - old Nick has moved into and hits him on the head, the teen disposes of most of the things in the attic at a garage sale.

Domenica Ruta grew up in Danvers, Massachusetts, in a ramshackle, rundown, trash - filled house with her mother, a drug dealer and user who raised Domenica on a steady diet of Oxycontin.

The dogs were being housed in ramshackle kennels.

A «riverside ramshackle meets Thai trendy» guesthouse just down the road from higher profile Riverside Guest House, R - Lampang has a bunch of rooms in a couple of buildings.

It's a slightly ramshackle area yet sufficiently scenic with waterfront kampung houses to the east and jungle to the mountainous west.

In 2003 they bought a ramshackle, eleven - bedroom Victorian mansion in Fleischmanns, New York, painted it black, and decorated it like a haunted house with faux taxidermy and gothic furniture.

Long after she was on clown duty in that ramshackle front yard in Ettalong... where I've spent many a lovely Sunday... Kate was studying law and moved into my first house in Petersham.