Home Tour Countdown - Nine Short Months by Evelyn Montgomery
The date for our next home tour, our first fall home tour, in October 24. That is the weekend before Halloween and after the close of the state fair. Hopefully, our fall tour will lure visitors with seasonal plantings and decorations, as well as our neighborhood’s great architecture. A successful home tour is an opportunity to make some money, get publicity for our neighborhood and our home owners association, and attract visitors who might be so impressed that they become our new neighbors.
As your humble home tour chairperson, I need to start gathering two things-people and houses. I will need to assemble a home tour committee, hopefully not limited to the members of the board. I also want a co-chair, because I am lazy. The co-chair would ideally by friendly and popular, to assist with pursuing volunteers, as I am known for my shyness and hermit-like habits.
The houses I seek are those which will thrill and amuse the visitors. I would like six locations. Your house does not have to big or elegant to qualify-though it would nice to have at least one like that. Funky decorating, interesting collections, walls stripped to the shiplap, these are just a few of the features that might make your house perfect. Lest you think I am asking you to do something I would not do myself, my house is already signed up for the following tour, fall 2012!
Please contact me at drevelynmontgomery@sbcglobal.net with any and all offers of home-tour help.