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We think you should take this Saturday morning off from working on your house and GO GET INSPIRED!
I mean, come on. How often do you get to be nosy inside of a house that looks like THIS?
And that is just the foyer.
(All photos and graphics courtesy of the Pleasant Home Foundation.)
Still not sold yet? What if I were to tell you that you could experience all of these things I am going to list below in beautiful Oak Park, Illinois this Saturday, October 6, 2007? FOR FREE!!
- A house voyeur's dream: getting to be nosy inside of the gorgeous Pleasant Home designed by Prairie-Style architect George Maher in 1897.
- Attending free seminars on everything from how to hire an architect, how to restore old windows, how to make an old home more energy efficient, and more!
- Drooling over products and services from exhibitors and artists who will be showcasing furnishings, lighting, green materials, kitchen design, art glass (new and old), the list goes on!
What? You want more? Man, you people won't get out of bed for just anything, eh?
Okay, how about this. From 6 p.m. to 8 p.m., you can rub elbows with other old house enthusiasts at Maher's Erwin House at a special evening benefit reception featuring cocktails and hors d’ouevres, and a presentation on Maher’s bungalows by architectural historian Kathleen Cummings. $25 (advance registration requested)
Still more?
Well, if you want to make a weekend of it, you can spend Sunday indulging your wildest house voyeuristic fantasies on docent-led interior tours of some of Oak Park’s most spectacular bungalows, most never before open to the public, and a self-guided walking tour of their historic neighborhoods.
No tickets will be mailed. Check-in, ticket/map pick-up and day-of registration begin at 10 a.m. on Sunday, Oct. 7 at Pleasant Home, 217 Home Avenue. $35 (advance registration), $40 (day of the event)
You can even stop in at Oak Park Home and Hardware to indulge your Arts and Crafts desires. Oh, no, wait! Because they are going to be at the Pleasant Home on Saturday morning, too! So they will bring their stuff to YOU! You lucky devil.
Oh, and, yeah. Aaron and I will be talking about how to leverage the internet to work on your old house in a typical, geeky show of internet surfing meets old house lover dorkiness. I will be divulging my internet searching secrets that make me sound like I know more than I actually do about, you know, house stuff. And, yes, our seminar is part of the FREE part on Saturday morning. We'll be on the schedule for 9:30 am to 10:30 am so, if you want to gawk at the wonders of the internet with us, don't sleep in!
All of this is brought to you courtesy of the Pleasant Home Foundation of Oak Park where fellow houseblogger Chris of Tiny Oak Park Bungalow can TOTALLY hook you up because he is involved in planning all of this. And, because he is obviously not busy enough with the renovation of his bungalow.
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Comments
Awesome!! Now find me one in Baltimore. ;)
Posted by: jamaila | October 3, 2007 7:55 AM
Wow. I wish I still had family in Oak Park, I'd have to come up to see that.
Posted by: John | October 3, 2007 8:00 AM
I wish I were closer to Chicago or I'd be there, for sure! There are hardly any bunglows where I live (Scranton, Pa.) Lots of Victorians, though most have fallen into disrepair.
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