# Ask the girl who has gone from squalor to show home

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**Created:** [September 12, 2010, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-girl-who-has-gone-from-squalor-to-show-home/553495 "2010-09-12T12:19:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2010, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-girl-who-has-gone-from-squalor-to-show-home/553495/21 "2010-09-15T12:38:24Z")

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Don’t pay attention to the “neuter everything” crowd. I’d love me a red and black kitchen, and I’m not the only one. Pamplona’s weather is strikingly similar to Glasgow’s (yes, I do know that’s very different from Edinburgh, I’ve lived in both, but it’s a close reference for you); both places tend to be gloomy, so anything which brightens up a flat is welcome. When I was looking at places to buy in or near Pamplona with my mother, the first time we saw a flat decorated in ultra-bright colors she made fun of it. By the time I decided to buy one with a bedroom done in shades of copper, the other one painted orange, a light-green kitchen and strawberry walls on the living room, she found it perfectly normal.

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