Talk:Green Room (White House)

Adding images of individuals

Over the last 3 years images featuring individuals have been added to the White House room articles. The room articles are primarily about the architecture and decorative arts of these rooms. While some text describing historic events that have happened in a particular room are important, if the event is significant enough to have its own article (Partial Test Ban Treaty) the photograph is more appropriately placed there with a link in the article to the White House room article.

There are an abundant number of photographs showing the rooms without people, where the focus is on the architecture and decorative arts. The emphasis in adding a photograph is to illustrate the room and its furnishings, not an individual. If you must add images of people, please add them in the gallery feature. CApitol3 (talk)

Refurbishment/Renovation vs Restoration

@ User:Tysto A small point about terminology: Coolidge's choice to redo the Green Room with early American furniture isn't like an ordinary refurbishment/renovation where you follow your tastes and proceed from there. Instead, what he was doing is more accurately referred to as a "restoration," which is what you call a redo when it involves using decor authentic to a particular historic period. Jackie Kennedy took this notion and ran with it, conceiving of the White House as a museum showcasing the best of our cultural history, as demonstrated in the White House's historically accurate museum-like interior decor choices because she thought that takeaway was more important for the American people than a simple redecoration. For all those reasons, I would simply be cautious about which terms you use when.