Winter House Tour

Many years ago I participated in a real house tour that some of my acquaintances had organized. While it was a joy to tour all the homes, the work to get them ready for a friend to see them all at once, was very intense and tiring. When other bloggers invited me to join blog tour of homes, I always declined because of the exhausting effort it would take to get all the rooms ready for photographing, and I was never certain I could complete the assignment in time for the date that was set.

Lately, the home tours shown on blogs have been done in small increments, sometimes only showing table vignettes or fireplace mantels. This made me feel a little more confident about having a house tour on my blog. You do not have to know the rooms or part of the rooms that are not ready yet. Since I am never able to get every area of my house ready at the same time, I will show what I can, for the next few days.

Of course this will last about five minutes in real life, before it is all removed and the piano bench is returned to its place and the tea pot put back in the cabinet.

This lasted 5 minutes and the piano bench which substituted as a coffee table was returned to its place.

 

Not real donuts.

Mere staging makes this chair look very neat and tidy but it is in use constantly.

 

 

 

 

I do use the teapot and plate quite a bit.

This is a lot less stressful than having guest walk through every room in one day. I do hope to have other pictures for future posts during this festive season.

 

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