The Property Lover’s Guide to Christmas
Because festive season should feel more “champagne courtyard soirée” and less “panic-cleaning before guests arrive.”
Ah, Christmas. That magical time of year when fairy lights go up, social calendars explode, and everyone suddenly becomes deeply invested in the styling potential of their living room.
If you’re a property lover (or just someone who appreciates a well-placed, hand chopped cushion), here’s your festive reminder of how to survive — and thrive — this season with a little elegance, a little humour, and absolutely no tinsel-induced chaos.
1. Curate, Don’t Clutter
This year, we’re leaving the “throw everything red and shiny at the tree” energy in the past.
Think: elevated neutrals, soft metallics, maybe a sprig of eucalyptus you pretend you foraged.
Minimalism, but make it festive.
2. The Guest-Ready Home Illusion
The holidays demand one important skill: the ability to make your home look like no one actually lives there.
All you need is:
One scented candle so expensive it becomes the personality of the room
Clever Tetris-level cupboard-shoving techniques
And a throw blanket casually tossed with the precision of an interior stylist who has done it twelve thousand times and has the time (even though you absolutely do not)
3. Air Con: The Unsung Hero
Forget the sleigh — the real MVP of Christmas in Australia is the reverse-cycle unit that’s held together by hope and annual servicing.
May yours blow like a cool alpine breeze and not like an exhausted hairdryer on duty with a 12 bridesmaid wedding party at 3pm on Christmas Day.
4. Your Backyard: December’s Social Arena
Whether you’re hosting a 20-person lunch or a “quick drink that somehow becomes a full dinner,” the backyard becomes the stage.
Pro tip: direct guests away from the patch of grass that’s definitely dying but you’re absolutely pretending is “a landscaping choice” and send the kids out early to check for Fido’s land mines that would be sure to ruin a tweens new suede Puma Speedcats
5. Christmas Table Styling: A Competitive Sport
Somewhere along the line, table settings became the Olympics of domestic aesthetics.
Linens. Layering. A centrepiece that says “effortless sophistication” even though you watched eight Pinterest tutorials to get it right.
Just remember: no one will notice the charger plates, but they will remember if the potatoes aren’t duck fat crispy.
6. May Your Neighbours Be Quiet and Your Champagne Be Cold
This is really the essence of the season.
A little peace, a touch of indulgence, and the hope that nobody decides Christmas Eve is the perfect time to start a DIY project. Early warning signs to watch for, the small structural hints like new fences or skip bins appearing, signaling a bigger project is brewing before the noisy demolition starts. If a truck suddenly appears to deliver scaffolding, it’s ON, Gwenivere!
7. The Great Outdoor Furniture Mirage
Christmas always convinces us we need new outdoor furniture, in November when you lift the dusty outdoor furniture cover and lament your life.
2025 has been all about creating “comfortable, multifunctional, and stylish spaces”, blending “indoor luxury” with nature through '“wellness-focused designs”, in “deep-toned palettes”, using sustainable materials, sculptural curves, modular setups, woven textures, and “integrated fire pits”, making backyards feel like extensions of the home.
How did you miss that?!
8. Christmas Shopping
We’ve all got that one friend who shops for gifts, they have lists and have gifts put away in early April. Reminder: These people are not normal.
Real people endure Christmas shopping for relatives you can’t stand: it’s the annual sport of finding a gift that says ‘I tried’ without exceeding the emotional investment of a discounted Temu novelty socks.
9. The Art of the “Styled” Pantry
Christmas is the season when half of us attempt a pantry makeover we absolutely did not have time for.
Glass jars, woven baskets, matching plastic sets all sporting labels in fonts we can’t pronounce identifying items we use once or twice a year — all to give the illusion that we live a life of quiet, organised life of luxury.
Just don’t open the cupboard above the fridge. That’s where the truth lives.
10. Boxing Day: The National Day of Realestate.com.au Browsing
The sun is shining, leftovers are plentiful, and for reasons science cannot explain, everyone decides to see what’s on the market.
It’s not that you’re buying — you’re just looking.
Manifesting. Dreaming. Quietly judging the decor... “what were they thinking!?”
Here’s to a holiday filled with beautiful spaces, beautiful moments, and beautifully chilled beverages.
May your Christmas be luxe, your home be calm, and your New Year filled with properties worth swooning over…. just us? Surely not!
Thank you for being a big part of our 2025, we look forward to more deals, homes, inspections and negotiations, in 2026!
With love,
Fahey, Marie-Louise, Heath, Ben, Ken and team xo
Younger Hill are Property Advocates located in Melbourne’s Inner North. Led by Fahey Younger, our team are fully licensed real estate agents and property specialists. We offer a collaborative and emotionally intelligent approach to transform old ways of buying property. With more than 20 years of combind buying and selling experiences, you’re in rock solid hands.
We service Melbourne Metro, Mornington and Bellarine Peninsulas, Rural Victoria (Gippsland, Daylesford, Hepburn Shire, Ballarat & surrounds), Sydney northern beaches, and more because property smarts don’t stop at the border.
