An Old House

We were persuaded to let our house be one of the five old houses on the "Old House Enthusiasts' Home Tour" this past weekend. This involved several days filled with nothing but cleaning ahead of time, and much patience on the part of my parents to let us move in with them for the weekend while ~1000 people walked through our house. In exchange, we get a little stipend, an artist's drawing of our house and a chance to see our house as 'put together' by a designer with some borrowed furniture and lamps, pictures, etc. Needless to say, our house won't look this good again likely ever, and definitely not until we win the lottery! (the stipend isn't big enough to cover a new couch, two new chairs, several tables, lamps, framed pictures, and a full-time live-in maid, etc. etc.)

For anyone who hasn't been there, our home is 103 years old and was completely re-done by the guy we bought it from. (Another of his houses that he redid was also on tour, and it was fun to see all the similarities between the two places.) We have done nothing to it, not even the paint job it needs inside. Oh well. I guess people liked it well enough. Here are a few pictures of what it looked like this weekend, for anyone who is curious. (Greg)