Monday, December 15, 2008

Christmas tour of days of yore.

Hi everyone! I'm participating in a holiday open house today courtesy of "Hooked on Houses". I decided to use pictures from our City House back in 2006 (and 2005). We didn't decorate last year as we were doing renovations and yes, we're STILL doing renovations. We now live in the Country House which I will be featuring tomorrow in Kimba's Holiday Open House.


So...I bring you the City House... it was built in 1811 and is located in a historic city on a very historic street. You history buffs out there, just might be able to figure it out but that's OK, we're living somewhere else now. Incidentally, the house will be on the market soon so if there's any chance that anyone out there is interested in an old house with a brand new kitchen and some added on bedrooms...you can find me here on this blog!

Yes, I even decorated the bathroom... doesn't everyone?

I do it now because I like it but back in the City House, I did it because every year we had an open house where people would pay money to come on the street and tour the homes, ours was the only home with a bathroom on the first level and believe it or not, people would ask to use the bathroom instead of the port-a-potties that were provided. Decorating the room, just made it easier to say, "no."







Did you catch that? The tree is in two different places! ha ha! That's because for the life of me, I couldn't find any pictures of our living room tree from 2006, other than the one of The Son at almost three sitting in front of it. I'm pretty sure 2005's tree looked much like the tree in 2006 so just use your imagination.

Thanks for coming on my tour! Tomorrow I will be giving a tour of the Country House's decorations and on Wednesday, I'll be hosting my first give away in honor of 200 posts! Actually, it will be 201 posts by then but who's counting? I'll be featuring a hand crafted item of mine for the give away, I hope you'll come back to enter.

Happy holidays everyone!

8 comments:

Darlene said...

I LOVED the tour of your city home! So festive and how neat that there were tours through it!

Free Art Printables said...

What a great house! Thanks for the tour!

Cathy said...

Looks great!! That sure does bring back memories!!

Buffy said...

Beautiful! And look at the son! They're growing so fast.

Anonymous said...

Wow, this is great. I love historic homes ;-) Beautiful.

Shell in your Pocket said...

How festive..everything looks beautiful!
-Sandy toes

Julia @ Hooked on Houses said...

I love your brick. And your magic tree! ;-)

Thanks for joining my blog party! -Julia

Domestic Goddess..Diva sometimes said...

Your city home looks pretty for Christmas! Seeing those gifts are also reminding me to start wrapping presents.