The one on our kitchen wall was bright red, with a super long cord.
We had one in just about every room of the house though, once my dad started running phone line there was no stopping him. I was the same way when we had a landline in our old house, I had two jacks in each room in case I wanted to re-arrange things.
Wouldn't answer it half of the time...and the only person I ever called was my mother.