30-year-old Veronika Gentile and her sister 40-year-old Giovanna Avati charge £13 an hour to decorate Christmas trees for busy families.
The Melbourne-based siblings said they were inspired by their mother’s incredible color-coordinated trees.
“I started getting a lot of attention from friends, they loved my ornaments, and one of them even asked if I would set up their tree for them,” Veronika told MailOnline.
At first they did the work for free before they slowly introduced a $26AUS fee.
Veronika, who mainly relies on their customers’ own decorations, reveals she uses the same approach to decorating clients’ trees as her own.
“At the moment we’ve only used what people provide us. They tend to leave us a box of things and we get to work,” she said.
“It’s all about positioning,” Veronika shared. “For my own tree I place my ornament, stand back and figure out if it works in that space. I do the same thing for other people.”
Most of their clients are families who are too busy to decorate their own sparking tree.
The sisters also tend to avoid tinsel and prefer oversized flowers and classic colors of red, green, silver and gold.
While decorating Christmas trees is just their side hustle, the stylish moms are planning to expand and might even set up a Facebook page for those who are interested.
One internet user commented: “The nicest and most Christmasy trees are when you let the kids decorate them and especially the decorations they made over the years. Its nicer when they are not perfect.”
Another wrote: “People have paid somebody else to decorate their trees!? Society baffles me daily.”
A third added: “These are pretty but I was a bit sad to read that families were too busy’ to fo their own. Putting up the Christmas tree is creating a family tradition. Remembering the decorations gathered over years got down from the attic.”
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