Lovely colors abound: terra cotta, ochre, pink, white and yellow accented by gray, beige, black, green and brown shutters.

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The cabin design is clean and spare, the colors in muted tones of gray, red and beige.

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"It's more subtle, " she says, adding that she prefers stripes in navy and gray, gray and white or navy and beige.

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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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Brown black, Noble beige, Clay orange and Mist gray.

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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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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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There were wooden benches, beige walls, and dozens of lawyers clad in dark gray and blue.

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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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Today, the store has a new beige carpet and freshly painted walls in each room, including sea salt, gray, navy, celery, red and teal.

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