His business has decked the halls of the Buckinghamshire home of Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne, as well as David and Victoria Beckham's property.
Before I got into Christmas decorating, I was in franchising of maintenance chemicals. It had nothing to do with Christmas at all, but this is much harder work. In that time, I'm taking phone calls, speaking to clients, writing risk assessments and method statements for installations, and putting proposals together.
We can't take all the business. We disappoint more than we don't. We don't answer the phones because if we did, that's all we'd do. All our calls go through to a call center where they take all the inquiries, and they send the emails, too. Everybody gets responded to.
When you've just decorated one of the biggest shopping centers in the UK and they've got all "The X Factor" finalists coming to switch the lights on, not being ready is not an option. We have to be ready. The first Christmas exhibition of the year is in January in Frankfurt, Germany, and it's called Christmas World. It's the biggest exhibition in the world. Then I spend the next couple of months traveling through Southeast Asia. We have our own offices in Hangzhou, China, to maintain quality control of the products we manufacture.The Christmas Decorators