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> **白と茶色を基調とした** 真新しい洋風の外壁。

I saw that ～を～とする means "as" and that 基調 means "to be the main color in
something like a picture" ([2nd
definition](https://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/word/%E5%9F%BA%E8%AA%BF/#jn-52768)),
but I can't link everything in this sentence.

"Brown as white"? (Or is it "white as brown" because the wall was brown
actually. I'll upload a picture). Should I consider it as "instead" instead of
"as"? For example, "white instead of brown"...? Considering that there is both
white and brown in the image, it looks the game is talking about both the
colors, but I don't know which would be the main one.

[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/iz7t9.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/iz7t9.jpg)
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grammar translation set-phrases
What does 白と茶色を基調とする mean in this sentence?
Three words/phrases are modifying 外壁:

  * 〖白 **と** 茶色〗を〖基調〗とした  
which uses 〖white **and** brown〗 as 〖base colors〗

  * 真新しい  
new

  * 洋風の  
western-style

Note that 白 and 茶色 are joined with と ("and"). Here 白と茶色 is a set, and comes
before the "as".
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