White House underwent $86m two-year makeover only to emerge without much change!

London, Sep 14 (ANI): The White House's West Wing may have emerged from a 86 million-dollar makeover that took two years to complete, but apparently it didn't seem as if anything about the landmark building had actually changed.

The current outcome of the construction project, which began in September 2010, is visually anticlimactic, though two years of the 4-yr-project still remain, landing the White House administration with a total bill of over 376 million dollars

The construction project began in September 2010 with the excavation of a huge, multistory pit in front of the West Wing, wrapping around to include West Executive Avenue, the street that separates the White House from the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, the Daily Mail reports.

A tall, green construction fence sprang up that blocked America's most famous office complex from public view. But now the fence has been removed, revealing the familiar whitewashed sandstone facade and the lone Marine guard who stands watch at the entrance to the West Wing lobby, the paper said.

According to the report.The General Services Administration (GSA), which oversaw the work, said it was to replace aging water and steam lines, sewers, storm sewers and electrical wiring conduits. Heating, air conditioning and fire control equipment also are being updated, officials said.

Future phases of the project are expected to involve more excavation elsewhere on the North Lawn, the well-groomed park that tourists see from the fence on Pennsylvania Avenue and possibly inside the East and West wings, the paper said. (ANI)