Merchandise racks went from dark blue to beige to dove-gray until they finally matched the floors so that the eye fixes on the product first.

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The cell is a small, windowless room painted a nondescript beige, with a gun-metal gray floor and concrete sleeping platform.

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This slender paragon, wearing only a beige body sheath, lives in an immaculate pale-gray room in an expensive clinic, known as El Cigarral, just outside Toledo, Spain.

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Above these wood accents and around the two-part center armrest, dark "Marble Gray" leather is used, with light beige "St Tropez" leather, trim pieces, and fabrics used beneath the wood accents and on the seats.

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