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>>I think that appeared on "Changing Rooms" or one of those other house makeover shows a few years ago.
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>>Nowadays they'd all be bleating on about "not neutral colours" :-)
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>I am told the hot interior paint color in California these days is burgundy. Not everywhere, of course -- that would be a brothel -- but in a main first floor room such as the family room or dining room.

Sounds like the ageing TV stars' regency flats here in Brighton. But a few years ago it was all Moroccan cous cous house and Mexican orange colour washes. Now it's gotta be "neutral colours" such that the people who go look at houses, in those find-me-a-property shows, all go "That's a good-sized room - and neutral colours". They're all brain-washed by the expression's constant repetition. And why "Good-sized"? What's wrong with "big" or "large"?