In the past, there was simply beech parquet flooring, oak brutally used as a living room cabinet, wooden ceilings, or an Opel Manta, which people like to smile about today. My Manta was definitely top class! Every era also has its products/colors that are "popularly chosen." You just can't imagine now that in a few years you won't be able to see or understand a color or another decision made during house construction/in life; unfortunately, I can't quite either despite growing wisdom with age. When we built for the first time, we stumbled into the same traps and let ourselves be sold many things with reference to style or aesthetics, as if any of that could actually be bought with money. That hasn't changed to this day.
But even today, it is difficult for me to make an appropriate color decision, since we are building now and at first quite liked this anthracite. Due to the heat issue, however, we then put the technical sense or nonsense in the foreground. So it probably won't be white, although that might make the most sense, but definitely something lighter. And once this switch is flipped, you suddenly find possibilities that you didn't see before because of all the dark gray. At the time, we had wooden windows made of softwood in maize yellow; that was considered almost innovative back then, as the majority relied on Meranti. Despite material criticism, those were excellent windows, absolutely trouble-free to this day, painted exactly once. To be honest, I no longer see the color of the windows, exterior plaster, etc. as something separate and only perceive it as a whole.