Reporting For Christmas

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About the design:

Our holiday design for 2024 at the Cherry Tree Inn Bed & Breakfast (the original filming location for the movie Groundhog Day) is inspired by the release of a new film, Reporting For Christmas, available for streaming on Hulu, AppleTV, Vudu and Google Play. The film’s holiday storyline follows reporter, Mary Romero (Tamara Feldman) as she is assigned a piece about a Christmas toy manufacturer, and later finds the heart of the story after falling in love with one of the company’s owners, Blake Johnson (Matt Trudeau). Throughout the film, the company’s signature product is found, ‘Mistletoads’, which was the main inspiration for our design, as a reflection upon our team’s work as one of the interior set designers of the film.Balancing out the rich wood tones throughout the estate, we selected a bold geometric folk patterned embroidered ribbon and ruby red pleated silk ribbon as the focal point for this design, which is echoed within the dark tone of the wooden birdhouses, geometric shape of the silver beaded snowflakes and rhinestone snowflakes (Melrose), and the various shapes of ornaments in a variety of finishes (Vickerman), including our favorite drop ornaments which mimicked the ribbon’s pattern perfectly.Highlighting the olive and juniper hues of the various Mistletoads throughout the film, it was fun to add a splash of lime to brighten the color palette of this eye-catching design. From there, we pulled out hues of red, burgundy and metallics from the individual flourishes within the embroidered ribbon. Full of intricate details, our team balanced out the need for an interesting visual design when viewed up close within the estate’s parlor, while also providing enough large-scale detail, by selecting 4” and 5” ornaments, which can be viewed through the beautiful rotunda of widows from the street.With hundreds of tours provided to guests and tourists a month, we are excited to unveil our design at the most historic home in the county and local area, which has become part of our company’s permanent Folklore Collection of holiday decor which will be used for years to come.