The Wall Street Journal has outlined some of the chic decorative changes at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue:
Handmade striped wallpaper manufactured in Amagansett, N.Y., with trim painted in American-made Benjamin Moore. Obama’s decorating team reupholstered in caramel-colored leather the two mahogany arm-chairs that Bush had placed in front of the fireplace. Obama still uses the famous Resolute Desk favored by some of his predecessors, but got a new leather desk chair and a new (American) walnut coffee table. Both were made in New York State, as were two blue ceramic table lamps.
The new couches were custom-made in New York, but the fabric – light brown cotton with red, white and blue threads running through it – came from Pennsylvania. Maybe it’s coincidence, but New York has 31 electoral votes. Pennsylvania has 21.
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Whoops! They must be on the larger rug - sorry!
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I’ll get this right yet - I was looking at the seal originally....
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mmm mmm mmm
Another laugh.
Stupid is as stupid does.
109 posted on
09/04/2010 9:41:24 AM PDT by
hoosiermama
(ONLY DEAD FISH GO WITH THE FLOW.......I am swimming with Sarahcudah! Sarah has read the tealeaves.)
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“chic”? Give me a break! Those fuzzy sofas are nouveau trailer park IMHO.
I don’t hate the wallpaper but everything else, especially that coffee table, needs to go. I saw other photos of the new drapes, they are awful.
116 posted on
09/04/2010 10:12:58 AM PDT by
Fudd Fan
(Where [politics] wishes to do the work of God, it becomes not divine but demonic. -Pope Benedict XVI)
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A little Alaskan memorabilia would be an improvement.
118 posted on
09/04/2010 10:15:39 AM PDT by
Genoa
(Titus 2:13)
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You mean they didn’t appoint anyone to copyedit the rugs?
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I'm surprised he didn't go for this classic look...
128 posted on
09/04/2010 10:50:23 AM PDT by
Fresh Wind
(King: "I have a dream"...Sharpton: "I want a check")
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The room is nearly lifeless.
Reminds me of the United States right now.
135 posted on
09/04/2010 1:46:33 PM PDT by
GVnana
(I'm a Mama Grizzly)
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Compare and contrast:
Note the varied textures of fabric and objects.
Note the collection of objects to carry the eye through the room.
Note the balance of accent colors, red and green.
Note the varied heights of objects in the room to lend balance.
Nancy Reagan had absolutely perfect taste.
138 posted on
09/04/2010 3:05:10 PM PDT by
GVnana
(I'm a Mama Grizzly)
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140 posted on
09/04/2010 3:51:42 PM PDT by
maggief
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"
Except it's not a King quote. The words belong to a long-gone Bostonian champion of social progress."
I beg to differ with the collectivist leftist premise of "social progress" and all that it entails.
Might I suggest "individual freedom" -society is not a herd that is progressed... Both social and technological advances are a direct result of individual achievements that are only possible in a free society where individuals free to pursue self interests subsequently advance the common good...
142 posted on
09/04/2010 7:50:56 PM PDT by
DBeers
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