A Liverpool mum's love of Christmas sees her travelling around to transform celebrity homes.
Adele Gregson, 39, has always loved Christmas and one day decided to set up her own interior design company. Adele, who studied at St Julie’s, in Woolton, previously told the ECHO she "had an eye" for festive decorations and was able to work around her children.
The Christmas Company was born and it has since gone from strength to strength. Herself and her team have transformed the homes of famous faces including Molly-Mae, Jonathan Ross and Paddy McGuiness.
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Their clients also include Liverpool FC players such as Trent Alexander Arnold, Mohammed Salah, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and goalkeeper Adrian.
Adele, who started the company around 11 years ago told the MEN: "I started it up on my own because I love Christmas and I’ve always been a bit obsessed with it. I had always wondered how people had their homes looking so good.
"I had my own home decorated professionally one year, and at the time I was looking to buy an interior design company. I then thought, because Christmas decorations are very interior design-led, it’s something that I could do myself as a business."
She added: "We were probably one of the first companies to offer professional Christmas decorations, so naturally, anybody who wanted the job doing on the scale that we do it started coming to us. We built up our clientele organically because once you do a good job, especially with celebrities, they all talk.
"So it was about building up a good reputation and then getting more clients through recommendations and word of mouth. We get a lot of interest through our Instagram as well, especially after a celebrity posts and tags us we get a massive hike in enquiries."
The team has also created festive displays for the likes of The Ritz London, PrettyLittleThing and Boohoo. One key to her company's success is down to the trust that she has built up with her clients.
Adele said: "A lot of the time celebrities book through their PA’s, so you don’t always know whose house you're going into. As we're going into these people's private spaces and we're privy to a lot of sensitive things, we all sign an NDA so there’s confidentiality there, which is an extra service that not that many companies offer. I think we've built up a reputation for being trustworthy and discreet."
The Christmas Company does everything from lighting trees and wrapping bespoke presents to installing giant sleighs and snowmen. And some clients even give Adele's team free rein to do "whatever they want."
With money no object, some clients have spent thousands to get the look they want. Adele added: "We do about 150 houses each year, but because of how we operate and the scale of what we do, we generally won't go out and do a job for any less than £2,000 because it's not worth sending a full team out."
The Christmas Company is based in Knutsford with the majority of their clients homes' in and around Cheshire, but Adele's team have travelled far and wide for some of their most esteemed customers, with the times getting earlier and earlier each year.
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