Tuesday, August 31, 2010

The new oval office




Obama had the oval office redecorated while he was on vacation. Do you like it?


37 comments:

miss tia said...

i like it! looks warm and welcoming....

and i believe there is in the white house budget funds put aside for the new president to remodel his office....as some blogs are making a big deal about the costs....did any make a big deal about bush redoing the office??

i remember when nancy got new china though....that was a big hullabaloo and i think that was really extravagant on her part....though fitting in her austere empirical image...

Frimmy said...

Yes, it looks warm, exactly.

Dirty Disher said...

The money comes from the White House Historical Association and each president is expected to make changes, including designing a new rug with the seal. Obama was very conservative with funds, I thought.

The changes in the oval office are really fun to look up. You Tube has lots of vids. Bush's office was full of western touches. Clintons was very red, white and blue. Obama replaced a bust of Churchill with one of Matin Luthor King and added some African pottery.

CJ said...

It's tasteful, not offensive, but it's too monochromatic for me.

Anonymous said...

The sofas and coffee table look "good will" to me. Did they find them somewhere else in the White House?

Dan Zinski said...

The "coffee table" is actually James Madison's coffin.

Casper said...

Anon@4:13
If you look at the before and after you'll notice they are the same sofas - just re-upholstered. Ditto for the chairs. Coffee table looks sturdy enough to prop the feet on which is what every good coffee table should do. :)
It looks nice.

Anonymous said...

It does look a little like the Good Will.

Christina said...

I don't care for it. Bland is how I would describe it, I guess. If this was a display in a furniture store, I would walk right past. Uninteresting and blah.

Christina said...

I guess I like it better than the first picture, though. That looks worse.

sally said...

It's pretty (maybe a little too yellow); but I like the "before" better.

Anonymous said...

OK, now I see that the sofa was reupholsered, and the chairs. I do like the wallpaper and new drapes. So much gold will tend to make people look tired though.

Anonymous said...

Gold is a black person's favorite color - well purple actually.....Surprised it wasn't purple and gold all around! YOu can take the person out of the ghetto but you can't take the ghetto our of the person.

Anonymous said...

Of course everyone loves Obama's look over Bush's.....None of you libs could EVER say anything nice about Bush....well except for the one you are munching on....

Anonymous said...

Now we find out that the Troll we all know is a prejudiced bigot on top of everything else. That is not a big surprise.
Go photoshop something Troll. We are not interested in you anymore.

Bitch!

Anonymous said...

Come on we all know black people LOVE the color purple (not the movie) and gold... Have you ever gone into a black person's home???? Just speaking the truth BITCH!

Anonymous said...

Kroll. Your Karma is going to be so sweet. You are going to end up with dementia. The state will throw you in a nursing home, cause you do not have any family. You will have black and hispanic women wiping your ass until the end of your days. You will talk your bigoted bullshit towards them and they will allow you to get bed sores.

DD I know that this requires deletion but I had to say it. I hate asswipes like Kroll.

Anonymous said...

Wow you have very little faith in our nurses. My sister works in healthcare (yes she is white) and she has been told by black people they do NOT want her to treat them. Guess what she still treats them with respect and care. Sad you think so little of black people and hispanics. Who is the bigot? What the fuck is a Kroll?

Anonymous said...

Oh wait so only black/hispanics are CNA's???? Another stereotype by the "non bigot" You crack me up!!!

Anonymous said...

Isn't it funny how the Kroll is trying to twist it around?

Anonymous said...

Twist what around? YOu stated that black and hispanics would be wiping my ass and would allow me to get body sores....YOu said it,,,,I was just stating that it's sad you think anyone in the healtcare profession would PURPOSELY allow someone to get sores and the fact that you think only black and hispanics would be CNA's...(CNA's are mostly the ones that wipe asses - yes RN's and LPN's do also) Guess you think a black or hipanic could never acheive LPN or RN status....The just get to be the ass wipers....anywho...you said it not me.....You are a BIGOT BITCH

Anonymous said...

Where is Miss Tia when we need her to protect us from all these evil people....FUCK TIA!!!

miss tia said...

rodney king once had a great statement...."can't we all get along?"....

Anonymous said...

oh MIss tia being so profound tonight...

sally said...

Here in Minnesota everybody likes purple and gold. Except for me cause I'm a Packer fan!

Anonymous said...

oh sally you are SO FUNNY! I can't stop laughing....

TrollSuck said...

Kiki is just mad cause she has no more friends on here. Except for her alter ego. That is why she is in Anon mode today.

Anonymous said...

Again!!! Ask DD for her tracker and you will all realize I am NOT kiki...Funny DD will never do it. guess she likes the drama. SO PAT where am I? am I kiki??? simple answer than once again for the millionth time not me answered...But you all follow her and believe her. You guys are the joke

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Anonymous said...

ooook, I don't want anything to do with the troll drama, don't understand why anyone wastes their time. See that bar at the top of your screen? Type in a different address and click go, what's the point of stirring shit up here?

Anyways..
So the top pic is the 'old' oval office? Honestly? I like that WAY better than the bottom pictures. The 'new' oval office looks too monotone and kind of drab. It looks like a step back in time almost.

Unknown said...

I actually like the yellow tones. Looks sunny and welcoming, I would totally take a cozy cat nap in there. The before looks very formal. Not bad, just like any other office, in which i would fall asleep bored out of my mind.

Bayou Jane said...

If he were decorating for the fall, it would be perfect. But I like my walls bright and clean looking.
Makes my rooms look bigger and I feel less depressed in light rooms.
Just sayin'!!

A-Gran said...

Back to the topic at hand: I hate the new decor. It looks cheap and tacky. Should've left it alone.

Anonymous said...

Donald Trump likes gold..I can't remember if he black or white..I like purple,and I'm white..

Nattie said...

I like the old and the new. I guess they just wanted to rid it of the smell of Bush.

Anonymous said...

I have some purple in my house, I am white. I have some yellow as well. My daughter is making me crazy with her yellows, peacock blues in her new house. She needs to tone it down a bit. It could end up looking like a box of Crayola 64's exploded in there! Ahh..remember the box of 64? It was the dream of every kid! All the rich kids had them at school. 64 colors, wow, she's rich. I had the required crayons, thats it. I even remember the fat & flat crayons we had to use way back in the day. I dont even think kids use fat pencils anymore do they? We did. Till 3rd grade. It was a gigantic deal to graduate to the regular skinny pencils. But, ok...Obama's oval office is just temposary anyways, he's out in 2012, so no biggie. It will be Red, white & blue again when a Republican is back in there. I am neither, so which I don't really give a damn. There are NO good nor honest people in politics. None. ZERO! Thats all I care about. "Shut up Claree!! Nobody cares about that purple shit, all they care about is touchdowns & injuries!!"


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Heidi said...

ROFL @Rox. Now I want to watch Steel Magnolias.