Once west of Perpignan, the landscape starts to resemble parts of New Zealand, with crystal-clear, robin-egg-blue skies and snow-covered peaks.

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Gettle likes a 1950s palette, so she chose robin's-egg-blue paint for the main hallway, pale yellow for the kitchen and pink in the dining room.

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"We've seen specialization work in the success of companies like Zappos, Blue Nile and New Egg, " Lore says.

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