Last week we showed you what the past and current White House private quarters look like. Paint company Benjamin Moore offers paint color suggestions for the next White House residents. The paint choices are different for the McCains and the Obamas. Can you guess which paints are recommended for which family? Find out below the jump...
For the McCains:
- for the formal dining room: "Salsa Dancing", a terra cotta red paint shade that echo the desert tones of Arizona and reference American painter Georgia O'Keeffe.
- for the bedroom: "Pensive," a creamy taupe.
- for 17-year-old Bridget McCain's bedroom: "Riviera Azure," a blue color.
For the Obamas:
- for the formal dining room: "Autumn Purple," a dark eggplant, or "Citron," a yellow with chartreuse tones.
- for the private living area: "Wethersfield Moss," a gray green, or "Beacon Hill Damask," a yellow with beige tones.
- for the Obama daughters' bedrooms (Malia (age 10) and Sasha (age 7)): "Rhododendron" and "Pink Pansy."
What do you think of Benjamin Moore's presidential paint forecast? Read more about the forecast by clicking here.
[Color images from the Benjamin Moore Virtual Fan Deck.]
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What about the Palins? It has to go with dark woods and firs, lol
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Firs? It has to match evergreen trees?
view Shawn's profile
Pink: Give it a rest, please!
I just have to make a comment about the knee-jerk selection of pink for the little girls' bedrooms. Why must little girls automatically like pink? I hated pink when I was a little girl, and that was before it was ubiquitous and synonymous with womanhood. I think it is really possible that many little girls have a lot bigger imagination than just "I want the pink one."
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Ditto on being one of those little girls who hated pink. Perhaps they'd like a cool yellow, or aqua, or purple, or (gasp!) blue?
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The White House State Dining Room has been painted white ever since the Kennedy Administration.
There's not a single chance that it'll be painted Terracotta, Purple or Yellow.
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bepsf- they are talking about the dinning room in the private residence on the top floor, where the president actually resides, not the museum tourist area below.
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One of my nieces always loved pink -- but mainly only the Barbie-ish kind. The other one always loved purple. Neither of them wanted their rooms that color.
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