There's a country air to the bedrooms, and most of them look onto the quiet garden: lots of soft deep pink or beige on walls and floors, plus greens and creams and coffee colours in curtains and friezes.
You could also use instant coffee powder to colour the water.
the endlessly repeating minimalist scene, with marble, sunk lighting, coffee and black colouring, plate glass; it is all ad nauseam.
No two rooms feature the same artworks, though they do boast similar classic coffee-and-cream colour schemes (with dashes of colour) and sumptuously comfy beds.
Some produce the brown-coloured compounds that give coffee its characteristic dark colour, while others produce the bitter-tasting chemicals responsible for its taste.
Olympic medals, Nobel prizes, the colour of coffee romances, prestige credit cards and superior chocolate from Terry's to Wispa... no element has ever meant more (though as the world heats up, carbon may come close).
On the northwest side of the island, the Atlantic Ocean crashes on to a 6km curve of sand at Famara the colour of coffee cake.
It made me wonder if Omanis have as many words for brown as the Inuit do for snow: rooms decked out in cocoa and tan, walls the colour of coffee ice cream, and everywhere heavy, dark wooden chairs, tables and loungers.
Locke operates an equality policy in which ethnicity is always specified, noting the "afro" of a witness, but also a Texan oil man's shock at a "white hand" serving his drink at a club, while the trial judge is a "white woman … with hair dyed the colour of coffee".
