The 24 rooms, 20 of which are spread out in cottages near the lodge, also aim to soothe, not dazzle--beige and white color schemes with rattan chairs and black iron tractor seats on the wall as decoration--and they're very appealing, even if they take the sheep motif a bit far (sheep pillows and photos, metal sheep on the rim of the deep soaking tub).

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Put aside that there still is no agreement on how many dead and dying aliens were in the mishap, their color (beige and "yellow-orange, " among others, in addition to the popularly imagined green) or even the specific date when the alleged debacle occurred (various times are given over a three-week period starting in mid-June 1947 and ending just after July 4).

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They bought a two-story house on a street with cookie-cutter homes that range in color from brown to beige to peach.

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Room color schemes run from beige and cream to soft greens, delicate blues and a sumptuous red combined with olive in the corner Mont Blanc Suite (the eponymous mountain can be seen from one of the suite's two balconies on a clear day).

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However, I love to see dollops of bold color in spaces adjacent to beige rooms.

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Its exuberantly curved and canted abstract shapes covered in softly gleaming sheets of silvery titanium are anchored to the earth by warm beige Spanish limestone, their shimmering surfaces changing color magically with the light and weather.

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The Compaq IPaq I-A1 is a cute little beige number with a wireless keyboard and a tiltable color LCD screen about the size of a makeup mirror.

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You have to commit to working thoughtfully with beige rather than bombing it with some huge piece of color and hoping that will solve the problem.

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You can have any color you want, as long as it's beige.

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