Home Tour Recap

[boiler717]

I mentioned awhile ago that our home was going to be featured in a historic home tour in our city. It was this past weekend and almost 2000 people come through! It was completely crazy but a great experience. I highly recommend doing it if you live in an area with a tour. 99% of people were incredibly nice and apparently our house was the "favorite" home on tour. It was a huge compliment because the other 6 homes were all over 3000 sq ft (we're 1300) and all have had massive additions and major renovations. Apparently ours had the most personality and fun .

My favorite side eye comment: this lady went all through the house am them back tracked to the front to tell me "you would never know your house is so cute from looking at it on the outside!!" ummm, okay!

ETA: some crazy typos!

[housegeek]

Do you have a blog r anything? I want to see!

[boiler717]

I wish I was dedicated enough to blog! I posted interior pics before on The Nest but couldn't find a link. The Indianapolis Star is doing a Sunday feature on it soon so I'll post the link when it is published.

[boiler717]

Found it!

community.thenest.com/cs/ks/forums/thread/65154650.aspx

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Here's one of the pro pics

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And the front

[sailorgray]

Congratulations!! My goal is to one day have a home on a tour. I love going on them. I love your house!

[thewop]

You have one of the most beautiful homes on this board. I love it! The art above your couch is sooo awesome.

[boiler717]

Jun 19, 2012 20:27:41 GMT -5 asdfjkl said:

I'm from Indianapolis so I think it's super cool that you were featured in the tour. I especially like that they chose your house because it's smaller and I think it's nice for them to feature a variety of houses. I have to say the "featured" house was one of my least favorite houses in Indianapolis and all the more for its history which includes tearing down neighboring houses to make room for massive gaudy additions. That damn houses is like a virus. Anyway, the tour sort of redeemed itself by featuring your house, which is just lovely.

Congratulations. What a neat thing to be part of.

Aww thank you! That house is just 4 blocks away from us. They were house 1 and we were house 2. People can go in any order, but a lot follow the list. So we had a lot of complaints from people who had just been there. I'm surprised they volunteered to be on the home after all the controversy. It is a pretty amazing home in terms of modern design though.

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Jun 19, 2012 20:36:23 GMT -5 thewop said:

You have one of the most beautiful homes on this board. I love it! The art above your couch is sooo awesome.

Thank you! There are some gorgeous homes on here . I'm excited to do it again when we move!

[housegeek]

It looks lovely!

[boiler717]

Here's a link to home SBP mentioned (at least I think this was the one she was talking about!):
www.thedesignfile.net/thedesignfile/2012/06/new-modern-home-part-of-this-weekends-historic-neighborhood-home-tour.html

And another home on tour. It was gorgeous!!
www.indystar.com/article/20120608/LIVING02/206090302/Meridian-Kessler-tour-home-Kim-Thomas-classic-update

[boiler717]

Jun 19, 2012 21:26:52 GMT -5 asdfjkl said:

Jun 19, 2012 20:40:08 GMT -5 boiler717 said:

Aww thank you! That house is just 4 blocks away from us. They were house 1 and we were house 2. People can go in any order, but a lot follow the list. So we had a lot of complaints from people who had just been there. I'm surprised they volunteered to be on the home after all the controversy. It is a pretty amazing home in terms of modern design though.

OOoh, what kind of stuff were people saying?

I have to say, I find nothing "amazing" about that home. It is just gross to me. There's a house at 57th (?) and Washington Blvd. that I think is fascinating as far as modern design goes. The Tobias House? No. Just no.

People were mad that it wasn't historic and that the tore down the old house (even though it was deconstructed or whatever term). People couldn't relate to the terms used when you were navigated through the house (au pair suite, children's art studio, drum studio, wait here if you'd like to speak to the person who placed this piece of art, etc). It seemed like most of the crowd was older so they probably weren't drawn to a super modern home.

I did think the light fixtures were pretty cool though. And I liked the kids rooms and playrooms. I know how hard it is to hear people say negative stuff about your home so I did feel bad when people would comment. I thought it was a nice gesture to be on the tour when so many people were curious about their home.

But we had several from Jimmy Choo wearing, Louis Vuitton carrying crowd who were not impressed with us! "You don't have an upstairs? Only one bathroom?". It's good they had a wide range of homes!

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Jun 19, 2012 21:35:10 GMT -5 asdfjkl said:

Jun 19, 2012 21:09:28 GMT -5 boiler717 said:

Here's a link to home SBP mentioned (at least I think this was the one she was talking about!):
www.thedesignfile.net/thedesignfile/2012/06/new-modern-home-part-of-this-weekends-historic-neighborhood-home-tour.html

And another home on tour. It was gorgeous!!
www.indystar.com/article/20120608/LIVING02/206090302/Meridian-Kessler-tour-home-Kim-Thomas-classic-update

Wait, I thought this was the featured house:

showhouseindy.com/

I was confused when you said Tobias house. That was for the Decorator's Show Home which is a different tour. We were in the Meridian-Kessler tour.

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Washington is a great street! We are moving soon and looked a lot at resorting a home there or on Pennsylvania. I'm glad the other home doesn't offend you as much! It's pretty interesting for sure. Did your parents go on the tour this year?

I really wanted our potential kids to grow up in Westfield where I'm from though. It was a tough decision and with my travel schedule we couldn't commit to a large restoration. It would also be different if we were in Washington Township
Schools vs Broad Ripple. We bought our current home as an investment and are so glad to keep it and be apart of the revitalization efforts in the southeast part of Meridian-Kessler.

[boiler717]

I was in Westfield from age 5 until college and loved it. I could never do Carmel or Fishers, but we were open to both Westfield and Zionsville. My family has stayed very involved with the community and school system so it's definitely a strong pull. I really love the small town feel, and I appreciate the work they are doing with parks/trails and encouraging locally owned small businesses to open. I'm excited that we will have quite a bit of walkability with our new house too (not as much as we have now though). Our neighborhood also has a lot of professional women which I did not find in MK (everyone was a SAHM or SAHW).

Eta: autocorrect fixed!

[tarheels]

I went on a Christmas home tour 2 years ago and my favorite was the smallest house. The grand ones were...grand and all, but the smallest one felt like I could just move right in. Congrats on being featured!

[sratsey]

So cool. I remember when you posted those pics. Your home is so beautifully done.

[katecoop]

Jun 19, 2012 22:07:04 GMT -5 boiler717 said:

I was in Westfield from age 5 until college and loved it. I could never do Carmel or Fishers, but we were open to both Westfield and Zionsville. My family has stayed very involved with the community and school system so it's definitely a strong pull. I really love the small town feel, and I appreciate the work they are doing with parks/trails and encouraging locally owned small businesses to open. I'm excited that we will have quite a bit of walkability with our new house too (not as much as we have now though). Our neighborhood also has a lot of professional women which I did not find in MK (everyone was a SAHM or SAHW).

Eta: autocorrect fixed!

Beautiful home! We wanted to go on the tour but we were out of town this weekend. We currently live in Westfield but talk often about moving down to your area--the schools always give us pause though.

I didn't realize there were so many Indy people here.