We’re thrilled to share that @hmrdesigns and @chereeberrypaper were a small part of this year’s White House Holiday Decorations. 🇺🇸 🎁🎄 The First Lady, Dr. Jill Biden called upon and entrusted @bryanrafanelli of @rafanellievents with the creative direction to bring this year’s holiday magic to the White House. ✨ In the season’s true spirit, Bryan invited a select group of designers from across the country to design a specific White House room. We selected the State Dining Room, and @chereeberrypaper did, too. Our teams jumped at the opportunity to collaborate and design the room together. 🫶 Our vision was to create decor that could be replicated in homes nationwide using old paper, newspapers, wrapping paper, etc. HMR Designs’ designer @barianjali shared, “We wanted to invoke feelings of nostalgia and childhood.”  🎄🎁✨ A touching story came when children across the country submitted self-portraits that adorned the trees. 🎄One of the volunteers working with us was a National Teacher of the Year from New Mexico. As she was working on the paper frames for the tree, she came across the portraits of a few of her students, which immediately brought tears to us all. 🥹 Adding to the charm, several paper doves from the East Colonnade “escaped” into the State Dining Room to bring the theme of Peace and Light to the mantel and set alight on the branches. 🕊️ The State Dining Room had:  ❤️ 35 volunteers from across the country involved in producing the HMR/CBP designs 💙The room represented 100 children and families from across the country ❤️ Featured over 5000 individual sheets of paper  💙 HMR worked with the White House curators to create never-before-featured window treatments for the room ❤️ Over 1000 pieces of individually shellacked pieces of candy Photography: @corbingurkin