“Fame is a two edged sword,” says Lysandra. “Without it, we wouldn’t be where we are now. Sometimes, it gets to the point where you’d like to be able to do things without being recognised. But at the same time, we have to accept it and use it as a positive. It just took us a while to figure it out. The truth is that it has been a hugely beneficial experience and when you are trying to establish a business doing something you love, you couldn’t pay for that kind of publicity.
At the time, being on The Block was extremely hard – it’s one of those things which you look back on with fond memories, but at the time, you just want it to be over. You have to live day by day. If you look too far ahead, then it’s overwhelming. We were police officers during Sky High. When we finished that series, we decided to take a chance, handed in our resignations and then came back and did Fans vs Faves.
In that time, we set up an online home wares store and then started an interiors design business. So now we have two businesses, which is cool. It’s totally different to driving around in a police car. The online business is something we’re on a steep learning curve with, but we’re always improving the website and learning, while the interior design business is almost second nature to us now.
Running your own business is fabulous because you can work as hard as you like and see results, but you can never switch off. Having problems and solutions always on your mind is something which we are adapting to, but it’s really rewarding, too.”
