It's bolder, it's bluer, it's golder. The Blue Room, one of the most visited rooms of the White House, reopened for tours this week resplendent in brilliant sapphire blue and with a lot more gilt. Estimated cost -- $358,000. Refurbishing is being paid for by the White House Endowment Fund, which used interest on the $12 million it has raised from private donors since 1990. The Blue Room, last decorated in 1972, had become worn, the draperies frayed and faded. The Committee for the Preservation of the White House recommended in 1990 that the room be redone. According to the White House, First L...
