Christmas decorations 7.5k

[Cleo888]

Hello,

I would like a honest opinion do these pricing look fair or they are taking me for a mug. I thought we would hire a Christmas decorators to decorate our home thinking it would be practical to have a company set it up and take it down.
The final pricing remains the same whether you keep the decorations for 2 weeks or 2 months. The contract will be for 2-4 years the final price is payable every year.

Staircase garlands £1100
Outside doorway garland £550
Kitchen garland for above cupboards £550
Inside lights for glass (both areas) £1700
Living room fireplace garland £275
Inside 8ft tree , fully lit and decorated £950
Drive lights for pathway£180
Icicle lights for roofline and top windows £420
Access equipment to install lights and take them down £500
Total price £6225
Plus vat @£1245

FINISHED PRICE £7470

@dikwad I'm almost positive he'd enjoy it.

@Speedweed but what are the rules on pimping our your friends husband?

This! Give your money to charity.

I would feel as if I was living in a department store.

Ask them to quote for real reindeer. Please, OP, just to wind them up and give us all a laugh.

That’s more than I spent on a a car 😧

It's 2x the cost of our first house, I'm really old!

Same, except I went to the range 🤣

@Cleo888 can you post some pictures of what the finished results look like, is it an online brochure

Seems like an obscene waste of money to me

Wow!

Some people are taking this thread far too seriously

You’re insane to even consider it

OP I will do it for you for 10k, mine will be much better and I will decorate every room.

or you can pay 5k for my basic rate

this is bonkers. if you want to celebrate the true Christmas spirit, please give that money to charity- there are so many charities doing special stuff over Xmas. kids are going hungry in this country. I have nothing against having nice stuff, bit this is pure waste

go for it

Get yourself to home bargains😂

So how much would you honestly have been prepared to pay to get someone to put up and take down some fancy Christmas decorations OP? Get your family to do it together, work out the difference in cost, donate that difference to someone who truly needs a bit of help this Christmas. Sit back and admire your work over a drink and a mince pie and feel a bit better about yourself and the world you live in. Don't tell others that this is what you did. Just give your head. a shake and get on with it.

This reminds me of those pictures showing how Mrs Rooney, an Ecclestone, etc have decorated their homes and your first reaction 'I bet no finger nails were damaged!'.

Omg 😱 some of the comments are pretty savage.
I absolutely do not intend to spend 7.5k on Christmas decorations thank you!
I am heading to primark 😳

How much did you think it would be?

When my OH died the first Christmas I bought a Balsm Hill artificial tree' as he'd cursed like mad man-handling the real tree. and I thought that had been an extravagance. This year I'm in profit looking at the price of real trees where we used to go!

Imagine what you could do with that money for a food bank … or any Christmas charity.

It’s a disgusting & vulgar waste of money IMO

This.

I’m sure others have said this - but isn’t putting up the decorations part if the fun? Or just don’t put so many up. It can’t be that hard to hang a garland on a door.
and do you really need swags in the kitchen?! But I’m sure it will look spectacular, but maybe a bit soulless - like a hotel.
love to see pics and be proved wrong !

I would LOVE to see the end result! I'm imaging Home Alone...

Ooh yes! Massive garlands !

Op you were probably expecting £500 or so but done professionally. £7.5k is a joke. I'm guessing people living in Chelsea in those townhouses probably pay that to decorate outside their homes and massive Xmas trees inside as well.

I suspect their pricing is actually pretty standard as they’ll be used to dealing with millionaires and corporates and presumably need to make the bulk of the money during a small window in December unless they do other events. It probably isn’t aimed at people looking at what you want which seems to be a one-off treat. You might find something a bit less high end if you still want to look.

It reminds me a bit of when I got some quotes from a garden designer. I hadn’t quite realised she was proper ‘high end’ and spent £1500 getting drawings done which were nice enough and didn’t seem particularly bonkers. i then had the shock of my life when the first quote came back at ‘starting from £80k’. We swiftly parted ways. My lesson learnt now is to always discuss budget upfront and check you’re in the right ballpark otherwise it’s just a waste of everyone’s time.