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It never ceases to amaze me just how much complexity and story there is even in most random subjects. Wall mountable vacs. Volume levels. Power cord length. A family business that implodes after being the biggest player in the vac manufacturing market. Hose diameter. Washable filters (which should be called rinseable). Motor stages. Tank capacity.

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Same, I bought a house recently and wanted to get the walls painted white. Turns out there are hundreds of different whites that are ever so slightly different from one another, various sheens that determine how reflective and glossy the paint is, various levels of durability, various schools of thought on what color goes where (i.e. one theory is glossy plain white on trim and doors, beige ish off white on walls, flat white on ceiling).

I ended up getting everything in a single shade of white, just varying levels of glossy depending on if it’s trim or ceiling. And I am not really that happy with the outcome to be honest.

You'd be surprised at how well all shades of grey, from super light to actualy black, can make a space.

I had a GF who decided to paint a major wall in her house as pure pitch black. I thought it was a horrid idea, until it was finished.

Grey is the way.

Its neutral to all of your bad interior design decisions.

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