Within architecture, a floor is typically the moo horizontal surface of a room (see as well flooring). the various levels of rooms around a building are also known as floors or even stories (level inside British English): "ground floor", "first story", "mezzanine floor", etc.

The confusion arises between them forms of floor numbering in use worldwide. Around virtually all of Europe, & so British usage, a floor at a ground level is the ground floor, & a floor above is the foremost floor, which maintains a continental European utilize dating from either a times of the construction of palaces. For instance, around French, the term for the ground floor is rez first state chaussée. However inside Northward U.s. usage, a floor at a ground level is the number 1 floor & a floor above is the 2nd floor; this formulas is as well utilized inside Russia and other countries of the previous Soviet Union.

A main floor is a story which contains a primary flat, whether on the ground floor even or the floor above; inside Italy they are always on a latter & called the piano nobile. A level beneath a ground floor is known as a basement even if only a little beneath ground level, or even a cellar; the story inside the roof is known as a attic or the loft.

In the U.S., a expressions a single pair, ii pair, etc., use to a floor above a 1st flight of stairs from either the ground (view as well carpentry).

Floor coverings
Carpet Linoleum Tile Mosaic