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Christmas at Biltmore
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The Breakfast Room is one of the first rooms visitors see when they enter Biltmore House.
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Outside, you won't see many decorations at Biltmore. The Estate focuses most of its decorations indoors.
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Biltmore designers use thousands of ornaments to cover its trees every year. Each one is wrapped in tissue paper and stored at the end of the season.
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Biltmore's Breakfast Room decked out for the holidays
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Biltmore also displays Christmas gifts from the past. This child-sized tea set is one example.
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This receipt from F.A.O. Schwarz shows some examples of holiday gifts from the late 1800s and early 1900s.
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At Biltmore, every detail matters. Each gift under every tree is decorated with the same theme as the rest of the room.
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Designers regularly swap out the greenery and flowers to make sure they are always fresh.
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Every ornament matches the theme of each room. Themes can be anything from a color to a feeling designers want to evoke.
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Crews use scaffolding to hang some of the higher decorations and decorate the tallest trees.
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At the end of each season, all of Biltmore's ornaments are carefully packed away in labeled boxes.
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The library at Biltmore is covered in bows and greenery heading into the holiday season.
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Biltmore's Great Hall is one of its most iconic Christmas rooms.
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