This Weekend: Houses in PLG, Gardens in FG, CH, PH
The 37th Annual Prospect Lefferts Gardens House and Garden Tour goes down on Sunday from 12 to 5 and, as usual, this is looking like a can’t-miss event. Among the many turn-of-the-century brownstone and limestone houses on the tour, we think the former rooming house that has undergone a DIY period restoration by its owners…
The 37th Annual Prospect Lefferts Gardens House and Garden Tour goes down on Sunday from 12 to 5 and, as usual, this is looking like a can’t-miss event. Among the many turn-of-the-century brownstone and limestone houses on the tour, we think the former rooming house that has undergone a DIY period restoration by its owners sounds particularly fascinating. At the other end of the spectrum, a 1906 home whose interior was destroyed by a fire in the 1970s provides an example of a more modern take on the townhouse. To buy tix in advance follow the link below or stop in at K-Dog & Dunebuggy or Easy Access Real Estate.
Sunday is also the day for the Brownstone Brooklyn Garden District Garden Walk through Fort Greene, Clinton Hill and Prospect Heights. There are 17 (!) gardens on the tour this year. Highlights include a pair of storied gardens that fall in the Atlantic Yards footprint and may not be around much longer as well as a triple-lot garden with cascades and ponds. Tickets are $15 in advance at Tillie’s and the Forest Floor and are $20 on Sunday at Tillie’s, the Forest Floor and the BAM Triangle Garden. The tour runs from 11-5 and shuttle buses will be running.
37th Annual House & Garden Tour [LeffertsManor.org]
Brownstone Brooklyn Garden District Garden Walk [phndc.org]
I really enjoyed the tour. What it lacked in ‘jaw dropping/oh my-ness!’ it made up for in showing real ideas and real possibilities for real home owners and home owners to be.
It is fun to see really impressive homes and interior design that you could never imagine being able to afford, but I think the idea of this house tour was more practical. My favotite house on the tour was the arts and crafts decorated home (on Midwood – I think). Great warmth and style. It gave me many ideas about blending traditional with modern.
Okay now I’m showing my atrocious editing skills, in my post at 5:13. Yikes! You know what I’m saying.
Hilarious typo, 4:55pm!
You’re so right to thank everybody all over Brooklyn for letting we hordes of nitpickers into to see their homes they put so much into. That was nice of you to say.
Sorry Anon 4:55 here with atrocious typing skills. That would be “homes”
It is so hard to get people to put their homes on HT’s. Although you know that there will be comments, it is still hard to deal with. Most of the Tours have seen fewer homeowners willing to go through it. I know that as a previous post stated you need “thick skin.” I don’t have the guts for it. I do thank my neighbors all over BK (FG, CH, VicFl, etc.) for their graciousness in allowing us to see their hoes.
Wow, my experience was much more in line with that of 12:19. I talked to a lot of people taking the tour who were very disappointed, and at one point we elbowed our way through a good sized group of people on the sidewalk who were debating why this years tour was sub par. Oh well…eyes of the beholder I guess.
Having had my own home on tour four times I can well understand how a homeowner in that situation might ocasionally seem distant or distracted–they were probably thinking of some detail they forgot in preparation for the big day. The only place you will NOT see that are HTs like the one I went on years ago in Charleston, where the homeowners were all absent and their identities were concealed. Brooklyn HTs are more personal.
Maybe you kept running into some particular malcontents, 12:19 while you were doing the tour. That’s too bad. We only saw happy people who were really complimenting the houses. In fact I was surprised that we did not encounter people standing around criticizing things. I was definitely assuming we’d see that. But we didn’t.
I had an okay time on the tour, though to be honest I did see some frowns and also heard several comments expressing disappointment.