Has Your House Been on a Tour?
Have any of you had your house opened up on a neighborhood house tour? Any negatives to this that you’ve experienced?
Have any of you had your house opened up on a neighborhood house tour? Any negatives to this that you’ve experienced?
I went on a couple of house tours and throughoutly enjoyed it. Im sure being one of the homeowners is an interesting experience as so many people are gushing over your hard work.
I just wish they allowed photographs. Would make the experience for me a lot more useful for me (idea gathering, etc..).
some guy named dave came on my house tour in GH and stole my Chinese butler.
I thought people put their house on the tour when they were ready to sell. You ready to sell?
Or maybe burglars can’t afford the $20 entrance fee. You only get the addresses (in a book) if you buy a ticket.
Dave, I’ve been on the Bed Stuy house tours. The security is insane.
No photographs are allowed. There are gaggles of people in every room watching your every move.
Also it’s so big and the houses are so far from the ticket purchasing location, it seems highly unlikely anyone would take the tour on the spur of the moment. Although I guess that has nothing to do with it.
Can burglars be the plan-ahead types? They don’t seem to have heard of house tours, though seems hard to believe.
DIBS – I went on the Park SLope House Tour and it was amazing – the organizers are really good at their job and many of them are informative about the houses. I would expect the BS house tour folks would be just the same. There were always 2-3 volunteers in the house stationed to answer questions and direct the flow and make sure no one lifts anything!
I think for the most part people come and are really friendly and respectful. I would think the only drawback is that you might get some dummy criticizing your tastes or choices of renovation – but ideally you wouldn’t be there to hear that!
Ah well.
The organizers will recruit house sitters. But in a small neighborhood like ours we ask the home owners to help out with the process. Frankly I was happier having friends be my house sitters — made it more fun. However the BedStuy tour committee is probably much larger than ours so this may not be an issue for you.
It was not me, grand army. The only Brooklyn house tour I’ve ever been on was CHN.
I assume the organizers will have people in the rooms directing the flow. If i have to round them up myself it’ll definitely be a “no.”
DIBS, come to think of it, you’re not the guy who told me about my door hardware on the ’07 PH tour, are you? It was a guy from Bed Stuy who recognized the unusual thumb latches on our doors and explained that they’d been made in Trenton, NJ in the late 1870s. He even knew that the pattern name was Tokio (sic), reflecting the then all-the-rage influence of Japanese design. He was a friend of my friend Will M., but was he called Dave? I just can’t recall.