Posted on 08/31/2010 8:55:44 AM PDT by reaganaut1
The Oval Office has gotten a makeover.
When President Obama addresses the nation on Iraq on Tuesday night, he will do so from newly redecorated digs. The look, which includes new and reupholstered furniture and new paint and wallpaper, is more modern and tends toward neutral hues of brown and taupe, rather than the gold and yellow tones favored by his predecessor, George W. Bush.
Gone is the sunburst rug that Mr. Bush loved so much; designed by his wife, Laura, he used to say it evoked a spirit of optimism. In its place is a more muted, mostly wheat and cream-colored carpet featuring the presidential seal in the center, and ringed on its edge with five quotations selected by Mr. Obama four from former presidents (Lincoln, Kennedy and both Roosevelts) and one from the Rev Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Mr. Bushs yellow brocade couches have been replaced with two custom-made sofas of brown cotton that resembles velvet. They face a boxy table, fashioned from American walnut and mica, that features a fruit bowl not flowers as its centerpiece. There is a lone navy blue pillow on one of the couches, which pulls in the blue from some new, modern table lamps.
The new wallpaper is striped, gold and yellow, but the pictures portraits of Lincoln and Washington have remained, as has the grandfather clock. Mr. Obama reupholstered Mr. Bushs two mahogany chairs and kept the desk, called the Resolute, that every chief executive since Rutherford B. Hayes with the exception of Johnson, Nixon and Ford has used.
The makeover was not done at taxpayer expense; the White House said the costs were covered by the White House Historical Association, a non-profit group
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Beyond horrible.
GO BACK ON VACATION YOU MORON!
I guess I was thinking of TP. I wonder why???? LOL
Who would decorate the oval office in yellow?It looks horrible comapred to the traditional dark blue. Gee did Michell also paint the livingroom hot pink? How soon does this low rent couple leave the People’s House?
What is that? A coffin right in the middle of the room?
Somebody call Ty Pennington!
U G L Y
Makes me want to take a nap.
I’m surprised Zero hasn’t replaced the portraits of Lincoln and Washington with those of himself.
The room looks horrible.
I got a buck that says that the Lincoln and Washington portraits get replaced about a month from now.
Barak Alesandro Mountain Dew Hussein Obama
Sure looks like it.
WOW, that looks SO MUCH BETTER. It was a gorgeous room. The designer of the newly decorated office = EPIC FAIL.
It looked SO MUCH BETTER before. Typical obama, he mucks up everythig he touches.
I think those are wires running up the wall.
rooms to go, the “el cheepo” collection.
It looks like someone’s Grandmother’s bedroom.
It sort of has a Ramada Inn feel to it.
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