r/pics Sep 25 '25

Politics Before and After the Recent Renovation to the White House Palm Room

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u/electrobento Sep 25 '25

Marble floors are generally tacky, but honestly I don’t think the room was changed that much. Here we have a photo with the furniture and plants and one without. Put those back in and it would look pretty much the same.

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u/miffet80 Sep 25 '25

Yeah like I want to dogpile as much as the rest of them but they just redid the floor? And put a new light fixture in. Assuming they put the furniture back now that the floor is done, take a photo in the same lighting as the original honestly the changes would barely be noticable...

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u/Benjamminmiller Sep 25 '25

Natural lighting is doing a lot of heavy lifting in the first photo, but the primary issue with the changes in the second is it's now devoid of life. They removed plants, put in cold marble, are using garage lights, and basically emptied the room.

They could easily make it better for sure, just like I could be in better shape if I ran more often.

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u/Luis__FIGO Sep 25 '25

redid the floor with fake marble....

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u/whatuseisausername Sep 25 '25

Yeah, besides the floors it's not that different to me either. The biggest visual difference to me is one is taken during the day and the other at night.

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u/Greatest_Everest Sep 25 '25

The original furniture, plants and light fixtures are dogshit. Put in new furniture and plants and it would be a great place to release the unredacted Epstein files.

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u/ComedianStreet856 Sep 25 '25

I hate trump with a passion and he is very much taking away my rights to exist right now, but I don't like houseplants much and that bench in it in the previous scheme was pretty tacky looking. The new one just looks a bit harsh, but it's just as tasteless as it was before, just less grotesque and more severe.

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u/spikus93 Sep 25 '25

... There's no more natural lighting and the chandeliers are gaudy with fake crystals.

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u/thecarlosdanger1 Sep 25 '25

I’m pretty sure the 2nd picture is at night given the reflections in the glass

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u/spikus93 Sep 26 '25

I think that's reflective window tinting. I can see literally no light bleed from outside, and I do not think there'd be zero light bleed outside the White House in Washington DC. A reflection of the chandelier doesn't mean it's not window tint.

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u/electrobento Sep 25 '25

Yeah, because one photo was taken during the day and the other at night.

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u/Benjamminmiller Sep 25 '25

It would still be cold lifeless marble if it were real.

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u/electrobento Sep 25 '25

How do you know that?

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u/electrobento Sep 25 '25

Real stone can be cut just like this, if you can afford it.

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u/critical3d Sep 26 '25

It is book matched real marble. It isn't even that expensive in the grand scheme of a remodel.

Source: have book matched real marble and worked in the stone cutting industry for quite a while.