She was wearing a drab ensemble of gray cotton sweatpants and a loose-fitting pale-yellow knit top, and her brown hair fell in bangs just above her eyes.

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In one corner is a pale-yellow Brastemp Retro mini-refrigerator, with rakishly angled chrome legs and a curved chrome handle, a product made by the Brazilian arm of Whirlpool.

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Manny, a pale-yellow one-year-old, comes from a dog breeder.

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This modest-sized restaurant in a 19th-century, pale-yellow frame house was purchased by chef Margaret Fox in 1977 as a kind of Chez Panisse North, a kitchen that gloried in the organic, the locally produced, the presentation of authentic flavors.

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Opened in 2010, the light-filled building with its pale-wood furniture and splashes of bright blue and yellow prides itself on being an eco-friendly hotel that pays close attention to its energy and water consumption and contributes to the community (for example, the mostly organic breakfast is provided by local bakers and greengrocers).

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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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