tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14731145.post8381206174464788384..comments2023-07-26T08:12:40.144-04:00Comments on Flatbush Gardener: Event, June 10: 2007 Victorian Flatbush House TourChris Kreussling (Flatbush Gardener)http://www.blogger.com/profile/08467595231097695124noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14731145.post-27266158037566097622007-06-07T10:37:00.000-04:002007-06-07T10:37:00.000-04:00I have heard our house tour compared to Cape May N...I have heard our house tour compared to Cape May NJ's Victorian week house tours. Many of the houses on those tours are B&B's, mixed with personal homes. Our neighborhood is pretty much all family's homes. And yes, to have a home ready and prepared for a house tour is not just a huge undertaking but good timing! For example, if the garden looks good, it is time to paint the outside, and if the outside looks good, oops, the kitchen is ready to be updated or the upstairs bathroom just leaked! So all things considered, cherish the 12 homes that are on the tour and hope for more synchonicity next year.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14731145.post-90831335013440702792007-06-02T09:22:00.000-04:002007-06-02T09:22:00.000-04:00DOTS: I hope to see you next weekend!AK: Hope you ...<B>DOTS</B>: I hope to see you next weekend!<BR/><BR/><B>AK</B>: Hope you can make it. We'll have a blogger meetup!<BR/><BR/>It's hard to take a <I>bad</I> picture of most of these houses, especially in Prospect Park South.<BR/><BR/><B>Anon</B>: Thanks for your insight. It sounds like you're speaking from experience.<BR/><BR/>We've not had the opportunity to open any of our home to visitors; we're years of work away from considering it. My gardens are in better shape, but even they are at least a year or two away from tour-worthiness.<BR/><BR/>One thing I've always taken away from each house - and garden - I've visited: the pride that the homeowners and visitors take in their homes, and the vision, commitment and patience - not to mention resources - it takes to restore and renovate. I am concerned about the long-term viability of this event. I don't know what could help ensure its future.<BR/><BR/>I have been talking with some neighbor gardeners about what we could do for a garden tour. I think we might have more success with a garden-only tour, separate from the house tour. What do you think?Chris Kreussling (Flatbush Gardener)https://www.blogger.com/profile/08467595231097695124noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14731145.post-11698547082043165872007-06-02T03:35:00.000-04:002007-06-02T03:35:00.000-04:00Getting a home ready for a hosue tour is alot of w...Getting a home ready for a hosue tour is alot of work. It is also a very emotional experience. People walk through your home making comments on your design/decor and some of the comments are rude. When I attend hosue tours I am always minful; that someone has been gracious enough to open theri home to me. I always save any comments for after I exit and always thank the homeowner and any volunteer. If we don't get more voluteers to help scout possible homes and then give them the support that they need on the day of tour, these tours may become a thing of the past.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14731145.post-54538380708025047472007-05-16T00:09:00.000-04:002007-05-16T00:09:00.000-04:00Thanks for the heads up on this - I think the BIB ...Thanks for the heads up on this - I think the BIB staff will try and make this, production schedule permitting. Great image by the way.A Kinlochhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00750265212542983012noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14731145.post-23333116215080056922007-05-12T15:04:00.000-04:002007-05-12T15:04:00.000-04:00OK. I just bought two tickets via paypal. Can't wa...OK. I just bought two tickets via paypal. Can't wait.Dope On The Slopehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02625235199555306825noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14731145.post-79148250521893198882007-05-12T14:58:00.000-04:002007-05-12T14:58:00.000-04:00Beautiful. That reminds me so much of the Victoria...Beautiful. That reminds me so much of the Victorians in the old downtown neighborhoods of Knoxville, Tennessee - my pre-Brooklyn stomping grounds.<BR/><BR/>I'll have to sign up for that tour.Dope On The Slopehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02625235199555306825noreply@blogger.com