Every First Lady gets $100K to spend on her new digs

President Donald Trump may be building a wall, but first he had𝐆 to tear down the drapes.

The 45th president has launched his first term by ditching Obama’s crimson curtains, replacing a bust of Martin Luther King Jr. with one of Winston Churchill and choosing a portrait of Andrew 🍸Jackson for his new digs. He’s also replaced his predecessor’s rug with the one Ronald Reagan walked across on a daily basis (and not, as was previously reported, a rug Laura꧅ Bush had commissioned for her husband, George W. Bush).

“[The decor changes] send a message th🔯at there’s a new administration in town,” said Kate Andersen Brower, author of the book

Interior decorᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ seems to be yet another area in which Trump꧂ is bucking tradition, as he still hasn’t announced a designer. The incoming first family typically starts mapping out changes to the White House living quarters and Oval Office weeks before the new president is sworn in.

Traditionally, the first lady works with a decorator and White House Curator Bill Allman to “shop” a climate-controlled, 40,000-square-foot storage facility in Riverdale, Md., which conꩲtains furniture and art stretching back centuries.

“Every first lady gets to go to this warehouse. Laura Bush told me it👍 was her favorite thing to do,” Andersen Brow🔯er told The Post.

Although the White House would not confꦐirm whether Melania ℱTrump — who has said she is not moving to DC for the time being — has or will be touring the facility or overseeing a White House makeover, there are thousands of pieces available for the choosing.

“It’s a historic record of everything that has been used in theꦛ White House over the last 200 years,” former White House Curator Betty Monkman told the Washington ⛦Post in 2009. “We have furniture from the Blue Room dating back to James Buchanan’s time in the mid-19th century.”

Among the items are Teddy Roosevelt’s rugs, Harry S. Truman’s nightstand and a large table given to Truman in 1952 by Filipino president Elpidio Quirino. Lyndon Johnson reused the table ꦿin the West Wing lobby — but decided to remove it after getting annoyed that reporters and photographers used it as a repository for hats and equipment.

The first family can also borrow any painting from any American national museum, including the National Portrait Gallery and all other branches of the Sm🐟ithsonian, to display in the 𝓡living quarters or the West Wing.

Kenneth Blasingame was hired by Presi🔯dent George W. and Laura Busꦺh when their family moved into 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in 2001.

“In the residence [space], you have free rein, but you are dealing with so much space, so you have to deal with it practically or it’s just a lot of money to spend,” Blasingame tolꦕd The Post.

Each president is given an allowance — since the Clinton Administration, it’s been $100,000 — to redecorate,💛 though Obama an🍰d Reagan used private funds instead.

While combing through the White House storage facility, Blasingame came across a pair of g🐲reen leather couches from the Grant administration and thought they would be perfect for the Treaty Room. “Laura [Bush] didn’t care for them,” he recalled. But history t🦩riumphed over style. Her husband “loved the idea of [them having been] Grant’s,” and so the green couches made their return.

Some families bring their own furniture to the White House; others put their personal stamp on the place. Nancy Reagan spent $200,000 on new china, whil﷽e Michelle Obama added furniture from accessible retailers Anthropologie and Pottery Barn.

“Michelle t💧ried to mix high and low in the same way she did with her fashion,” says Andersen Brower

Typically, staffers move the first family’s items, including those chosen from the archives, into the White House during the Inauguration Day festivities, though the Trump administration hasn’t confirmed that it’s followed suit.෴ In any case, 𒊎Trump — who obviously loves a gilded touch — seems happy with his new digs.

“It’s a beautiful residence,” he told the New York Times last week. “It’s very elegan𒁏t.”