NB: House Tours and Brownstoner Party Sunday
Just a reminder that both the Clinton Hill House Tour and the Carroll Gardens/Cobble Hill House Tour are taking place on Sunday. We’ve gotten lots of rsvp’s to the post-tour wine party we’re throwing at Ici from 3:30 to 5:30 but there are still a few spots open, so shoot us an email to brownstoner.ici@gmail.com…
Just a reminder that both the Clinton Hill House Tour and the Carroll Gardens/Cobble Hill House Tour are taking place on Sunday. We’ve gotten lots of rsvp’s to the post-tour wine party we’re throwing at Ici from 3:30 to 5:30 but there are still a few spots open, so shoot us an email to brownstoner.ici@gmail.com with the number of people in the subject line and names down below if you’d like to come.
May 6: A Busy Day for House Tours! [Brownstoner]
Brownstoner House Tour After-Party at Ici on Sunday [Brownstoner]
Uh, I think I answered above. Good House Tours give you a wide variety of lifestyles, sizes, architecture, etc. You can see how other people solved problems you might want to solve. You can see what it meant to be an artist couple buying in Clinton Hill in 1960, and what was important to them then. A good house tour includes places which violate every realtor’s staging rules – places are eccentric, provocative, stuffed to the gills with an owner’s life. Some of the houses are a train wreck, some make you laugh, some make you think that maybe life doesn’t depend on what kind of dishwasher you buy. Many of them began as attempts by local groups to expose like minded folks to the possibility of living in a new area. They are really boring when they are what you seem to be worried they are – simply another way of marketing properties or showcasing a particular designer’s product. Clearer?
“…if you think $20 or $30 dollars is a lot of money what are you doing at open houses anyway?”
If I can afford to pay $2M for a townhouse, I should also pay $10 for a cup of coffee? Open houses are free of charge.
For the third time, what do these house tours have over open houses?
what anon 2:03 said. the money is used to support the neighborhood groups. they in turn use the money for neighborhood events and improvements.
if you think $20 or $30 dollars is a lot of money what are you doing at open houses anyway?
these events fund these neighborhood groups…would people stop complaining about 15 vs 30..either pay it and support the neighborhoods or dont
$20 more reasonable but still should be more like $10-15. Again, what do you get that you don’t get on a Sunday afternoon at O.H.’s?
Carroll Gardens/Cobble Hill Tour is $20
Anyone know approximately how much time one should budget for the Clinton Hill tour?
I thought it was $20. House tours can be fun or a bust. They are fun when they show a variety of different styles and homes. One year the Clinton Hill tour ran the gambit of latest loft to formal high Victorian to detached Opera set designers to artist funky coop which has been worked on for 20 years. I thought last year’s Fort Greene was kind of a bust because everything was very high end and just showed what money can create. Although some of the houses on a tour will be on the market shortly thereafter, many are not, and are just an opportunity to sneak a peak at the creativity of the neighbors. I find the SONYA art tour gives another such opportunity.
$30 seems steep for a house tour. Why is it worth it? What more do you get than that from a couple of open houses on a Sunday afternoon?