Changing topics - Home Tour!!

susanmosley · October 2011

Tomorrow is the annual home tour in the neighborhood here where I grew up. There are about a dozen homes to visit - built between 1900 and 1960 - some have been gutted and redone, others have been preserved over time with all of the original floors, doors, built-ins, etc. It is one of my favorite events of the year. Super excited to go!

Anyone else enjoy/go to home tours? I love them! But it always makes me want to remodel and redecorate when I get home.

jnksmom · October 2011

I have never heard of that but it sounds really cool. I would love it! Enjoy!

lindslalala · October 2011

That sounds so fun! I love all things house related (HGTV junkie!), so I would be all over this if there was ever one in my area.

MAMAxB · October 2011

This. Is. Awesome.

We have the Parade of Homes but it's all brand new houses and just to promote the builders/new styles which isn't really my style.

I would loooove a historic homes tour!

momofmanyinthemitten · October 2011

DH's hometown has them-home tour, Christmas tour, garden tour. Some of the homes date back to the early 1800s. I haven't been to one yet, but we're moving there this spring and we're hoping to buy an old home. Perhaps our house will be on the tour. One of DH's childhood friends has their house on the Christmas tour.

susanmosley · October 2011

KateB1984:
My stance on home tours is hypothetical because I've never been on one, and don't even have a home (yet) that anyone would ever want to tour. What do you think, Suemo? Is it something you would do?

No way! I always think about this. It is two days of strangers tromping though your house, looking at everything. I would not like that! But I sure am glad other people don't mind. Some of these houses are AMAZING.

gatogrrl · October 2011

I think I would love home tours, since I loved house hunting. I am fundamentally a snoop who loves to get peeks into other people's lives (probably also why I like the Bump!). Of course, the homes on a home tour would be WAY nicer than anything we could afford, so that would be fun, too, to dream.

susanmosley · October 2011

gatogrrl:
I think I would love home tours, since I loved house hunting. I am fundamentally a snoop who loves to get peeks into other people's lives (probably also why I like the Bump!). Of course, the homes on a home tour would be WAY nicer than anything we could afford, so that would be fun, too, to dream.

I love my little, modest home. But I would be lying if I didnt' say that after the dreaming part, I get temporarily bummed that I can't upgrade. It passes.

Congrats on #2, gatogrrl!!!

MJCF · October 2011

Yes!! We

MJCF · October 2011

Yes!! We go to our neighborhood one every year and then we go on others as we can. I love it. St. Louis has some incredible old homes and its so fun to look at them. One of the best ones around here is the Lafayette Square House Tour. Its awesome. I've been thinking about putting our house on my neighborhoods house tour next year. We renovated our house top to bottom and Im proud to show it off. Of course I would have family and friends stationed around my house to keep an eye on everyone just incase.

EnglishMajor03 · October 2011

gatogrrl:
I think I would love home tours, since I loved house hunting. I am fundamentally a snoop who loves to get peeks into other people's lives (probably also why I like the Bump!). Of course, the homes on a home tour would be WAY nicer than anything we could afford, so that would be fun, too, to dream.

This. And I wouldn't want to be in a house tour because I am private. My house-tour love only goes one way.

McAllie5 · October 2011

I've never done a home tour, but I'm sure I would love it! I love looking at houses and seeing how they're decorated, etc.

We don't have cable, and the only things I really miss are the HGTV shows. Everything else shows up on Netflix occasionally.

gatogrrl · October 2011

susanmosley:
gatogrrl:
I think I would love home tours, since I loved house hunting. I am fundamentally a snoop who loves to get peeks into other people's lives (probably also why I like the Bump!). Of course, the homes on a home tour would be WAY nicer than anything we could afford, so that would be fun, too, to dream.
I love my little, modest home. But I would be lying if I didnt' say that after the dreaming part, I get temporarily bummed that I can't upgrade. It passes.
Congrats on #2, gatogrrl!!!

Thanks! I had basically given up on getting pregnant, and then it happened, and all my home remodeling dreams went out the window for a few more years.

I am very jealous when I see House Hunters shows from the Dallas area. You can get so much more house for the money than anywhere I have ever lived. If only I weren't so squeamish about the heat.

mrsfirefly · October 2011

So fun!!! I love seeing other people's homes. I'd be super excited, too. You live in Texas, right? I used to live in AZ and, at least there, homes built between 1900-1960 would be considered OLD homes from a different era. Is that how it is there? It's funny, because my house here was built in 1900 and is not considered old. "Old" homes here would be like 1700s homes. But when I lived in AZ, even though I had grown up here, when I went to a home from the early 1900's it felt very totally different era and time period to me. Is that how it is there, too? Not important, really, but I just enjoy history and enjoy how it's "different" in different parts of the country, if that makes sense at all.

susanmosley · October 2011

gatogrrl:

I am very jealous when I see House Hunters shows from the Dallas area. You can get so much more house for the money than anywhere I have ever lived. If only I weren't so squeamish about the heat.

YES! My jaw always drops when I see real estate prices in other places. We've got it good here when it comes to that.

susanmosley · October 2011

mrsfirefly:
So fun!!! I love seeing other people's homes. I'd be super excited, too. You live in Texas, right? I used to live in AZ and, at least there, homes built between 1900-1960 would be considered OLD homes from a different era. Is that how it is there? It's funny, because my house here was built in 1900 and is not considered old. "Old" homes here would be like 1700s homes. But when I lived in AZ, even though I had grown up here, when I went to a home from the early 1900's it felt very totally different era and time period to me. Is that how it is there, too? Not important, really, but I just enjoy history and enjoy how it's "different" in different parts of the country, if that makes sense at all.

Yes, 1900s is definitely considered old here - there aren't too many left. There are a lot of areas of Dallas with 1960s homes. This area, where the tour was, is one of the older areas and so there are plenty there from the 1940s and 50s. Many of them today had original bathrooms with the original tile - which is what my parents have and what I grew up with. It was funny to hear all of the touring people go nuts over how "cool" those bathrooms were because so much of Dallas is NEW and they had seriously never seen that style IRL. We have a ton of 1970+ homes here. And a TON of new builds/communities in the surrounding areas and suburbs.

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