There is a large flat-screen television, floor-to-ceiling windows, a plush bed wrapped in 400-thread-count Sferra sheets and, somewhat curiously, a brown leather ceiling that, together with the eggplant-colored rug, gave the room a dark, cozy feeling.
The walls looked blistered and brown; a ceiling fan hung with only two of its five blades left, both drooping like a sad mustache.
7 Roach Road E3, 07834 275920, thecountercafe.co.uk With its etched glass panes, dark wooden panelling and brown Anaglypta ceiling, this Grade II-listed pub cleaves to its 19th-century roots.
He also helped design the Salyut 6 and 7 space stations and Mir, where his contributions included choosing interior colors: white for the ceiling, brown for the floors and green for the walls.
The mood was party in the front, business in the rear — the bar seemed like a great place to have a chorizo sandwich and get into trouble with ranchers, while the dining room had a church-basement appeal, with brown wainscoting, droopy ceiling tiles and mismatched chairs.
The dining room, to the left of the entrance hall, has an imposing floor-to-ceiling brown brick chimney framing a white ceramic hearth.
Amid the skyscrapers, a squat holdout at Third and 55th, P. J. Clarke's preserved what we all hoped and imagined an old-time New York saloon was like: beveled glass, bartenders in white aprons, menus in chalk, pictures of people long dead, a tin ceiling browned by more than a century of smoke and murmurs.
Painting of walls is something generally done upon moving into a new home, selling an old home, or whenever that weird brown stain on the ceiling under the bathroom reemerges.
And then there are the three rectangular pieces of Styrofoam, each with a slightly different hue, hanging from the ceiling; Mr. Brown wanted patrons to point to one of the three to indicate the degree of doneness they wanted for their French fries.
