The Ottoman room is in updated Turkish style, with deep-red bedspreads, fabrics and oriental carpets.

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Inside, the colors stay just as bright: Pink bedspreads and orange walls greet guests.

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The five rooms are impeccably styled with 1950s furnishings, yellow bedspreads and dark hardwood flooring, and the pool has a view.

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One abiding feature of Britishness is a reticence about overt demonstrations of patriotism: flags are seen on Remembrance Sunday, at sporting events and occasionally as bedspreads.

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