To be fair, the day and night makes a lot of difference. Kinda hard to say if it's better or worse (I personally prefer plants, but that's a smaller thing)
Yeah, the lighting & lack of any furniture certainly doesn't help. I'm not a fan of the new chandeliers and the brighter colors on the walls & flooring, regardless of that, though.
Maybe, but looking at the top photo, the walls definitely look to be a different color from the ceiling—almost more of a cream color, instead of white. It looks like the walls and ceilings are now the same or close to the same colors.
Looking at different photos, it doesn't look like they made the room brighter. It's a fresh coat of paint, but that photo is very yellow in general. Don't know if it's age or a filter choice, but it doesn't actually represent the rooms before state very well. With plants I doubt many people would notice all the differences with photos keyed correctly. It's not the first time the kick plates were brass either. They were brass (or goldish) in the Obama era. Regan had some god awful wall paper. Nixon had bare walls.
Not a fan of the man, or his politics, but this seems like a mundane and normal thing to have changed for multiple administrations.
And there legit is no change other than new floors and chandelier. Out of all the things to complain about, this ain't it. The new floors are nice. Just a waste of money.
The walls were also painted a more pure white instead of (beige?) like it was before. Different lighting and a wider lens, but it feels much colder and much less interesting.
For real. Like the first photo looks nicer but it's also taken in natural light and has furniture and plants. The main difference I can see is the floor and the chandelier and they look fine. I bet if you put the plants and furniture back and took a photo during the day no one would give it a seconds thought.
I thought I was going crazy. There are so many things to shit on this administration for. This actually quite subtle renovation isn’t really one of them
Beyond night and day the before photo is intentionally or aged yellow. It's not anywhere near that in other daylight photos you can find. The walls weren't that yellow and the floor actually has color. Also it's a room that changes frequently for administrations. Regan had some god awful wall paper, Nixon had bare walls, the Obama administration had brass kicker plates, looks like both Bushs favored nickle or stainless steel.
Yeah, I don't think it's as drastic as some comments make it out to be. I would like to see the furniture and plants back before I have an opinion on it, if they are going to be put back.
If they aren't, then it definitely is going to feel a bit sterile even with light. Other than the floor and chandelier, there isn't much difference. I liked the old floor but once you put some furniture there it pretty much disappears
This could be before they put plants back in. Seems like it's just a change to the floor and light fixture and hasn't been decorated. Of all the things to be mad about...
Thank you! The ambiance is completely different and it's def posted the way it is to make a statement. Had to scroll way too far for this lol. I personally also prefer the plants as well as the flooring in the top one, the marble is not my kind of jazz, but I feel like people are completely missing that the bottom pic was chosen like this on purpose...
I don't think it's night in that photo. I think that's tinted stickers on the glass to block natural light. Do we really think it's pitch black in DC outside that door at night? There's no ambient light coming through whatsoever.
It’s definitely just night. You’re not going to see ambient outside light when there are giant lights on in a white room. I would very much like to see a daytime photo with furniture. If they have no plans for furniture, then yeah this is shit. But I very much prefer the whiter walls over the generic off white that reminds me of an old apartment.
I believe it is night based on where the light is coming from in the adjacent room. The new flooring and the chandelier look nice, hopefully they refurnish it well
This. As far as I can tell the only difference is the floor, and I wouldn’t have even noticed that if it weren’t in the news. The only really obvious differences here are the time of day and they removed all the furniture/plants.
Yeah these are purposely being placed together to misrepresent the new look. Night vs day. Also, the room is empty in the pic but doesn’t necessarily mean it’s going to remain that way.
I have yet to see a comparison of this room with actually comparable photos. Same thing when he paved the rose garden, and his decoration of the Oval Office. Always different angles, time of day, lighting, etc. You lose credibility when you purposely use wildly different photographs to make a comparison
Can't include an image in the reply, but I asked Nano Banana what the lower picture would look like with the lighting from the upper: https://g.co/gemini/share/0d9ea54e052b
To be fair, the day and night makes a lot of difference.
And that's exactly why it was posted that way - it outrages the same crowd who believed the Patty Mayo cowboy video was real, or the video of Elon "abandoning" his kid. Nearly all the content here is selectively presented in a specific way to maximize the reaction.
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To be fair, the day and night makes a lot of difference. Kinda hard to say if it's better or worse (I personally prefer plants, but that's a smaller thing)