I’m going to take a wild guess that since you’re here you enjoy a good house tour as much as I do. I also love a good blog party and play along whenever possible. So–drumroll!–I’ve decided to host one of my own called “Hooked on House Tours.”
Mark your calendar for Tuesday, August 5th. If you have a blog, I hope you’ll participate! If you don’t have a blog, then all you have to do is show up and look around. I’m imagining this as one giant Open House tour around the blogosphere.
If you want to participate, then all you have to do is host a house tour on your site so I can link to you. It can be a house that’s on the market, a friend’s house you love, pictures you took during a local home tour, or even your own house. Maybe there’s an historic mansion in your town you want to show us. Doesn’t matter. It’s up to you.
Then we’ll all spend the day hopping from one blog to the other, peering into houses and making some new blog friends. What could be more fun than that?
UPDATE: The party has started! Click here to join the fun.
A Few Notes (Pay Attention, Bloggers!):
1. If you plan to participate, please leave a comment on this post so I can get a general idea of who I’ll be linking to Tuesday. If you don’t comment, then I may resort to going to your blog and tracking you down to BEG you, so just make it easy on both of us and volunteer right now. Thanks.
2. E-mail me the link to your post when it’s live and ready to be linked to (try to publish it Monday night if possible so I can include your link early Tuesday morning). Be sure to give me the link to the actual post, not your home page, so that people who may want to see it in days to come don’t have to scroll through searching for it. My e-mail address is jknispel @ cinci.rr.com.
3. Be sure to link back to my party post so that your readers can visit all the other Open Houses that day, too!
Are you up for it? I hope so. Because I don’t want to plan a party and have nobody show up. That would just be sad. Then I’d have to have a Pity Party, and I really don’t think anyone wants to see that. It could get ugly.
I’m giving you plenty of notice so you have time to come up with something. So start thinking about what you’d like to share. I can’t wait to see what you all have to show us! -Julia
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Ooh, this sounds like fun and I have the perfect house in mind. It’s a beautiful historic home 1 block from Franklin’s downtown square that’s just been completely redone. I just have to figure out how to get the pictures to my blog. For 1.7 mil, I don’t think they’ll just let me traipse through, right?
Hey miss “having been in cave”. You crack me up!
Please count me in for your party. Just so I can be difficult..how many tours can we sign up? Like say I have 3 different posts of home tours. Do I link up each one individually or combine in one post?
hmmmm…would one of my usual “small town excursions” count? because i just went to the cutest little town today…
either way, i’ll think of something. let me know!
That sounds like a lot of fun. I am not currently living my house, but I am sure I could find SOME house to take pictures of. Maybe I’ll look around on my local realtor site. Great idea!
Amy–
That house sounds great. Break in if you have to, but get us those pictures!
Brandee–
I’d say give me the link to one of you house tours and then link to the others from it. Sort of how I do with mine at the bottom of each post (”If you’re hooked on house tours, then check these out, too”). That’ll work. And it’ll keep people on your site longer and you’ll get more hits–always a good thing. So add as many as you want. The more the merrier!
Maya–
Sure! People would love that, I’m sure. -J
You’re genius! This sounds like a LOT of FUN! I’m in!
Ok…I’m in too. Have a great funky, retro artists house I would love to showcase!!
You don’t have to ask me twice. Stay tuned for another wonderful Austin or Austin-area home.
Very fun idea! I have a couple in mind already – decisions, decisions!
Fun! I’ll see what I can conjure up.
New Orleans is in if you’ll have us. I’ll just have to narrow it down and figure out weather to go big or small. What a fun idea!
I’m in if I can get my act together.
Sounds fun. I think I’ll try to show an Alaskan Home.
I guess I won’t have to host the pity party for you….looks like you have a GRAND start on a cool idea. Now if I only had a BLOG!
I’m thinking! I’m thinking!! Thankfully you gave us a few days to prepare…
) Can I give a “tentatively count me in”?
Aughhhhhh – your killin’ us Julia! We’ll see what we can come up with – you KNOW that we’ll make ourselves….that’s what Summer Kitchen girls doooo…..!!!!
Thanks for the heads up (we think!!)
~Karla & Karrie
I’d love to participate in this – now just to remember to do it. Maybe I better start building the page now.
I’m going to try to participate. I’d love to show you my friends’ house in Madison, but don’t know if I can get there this weekend to get all the great pictures. I’ll certainly try.
Several of you have asked if it’s okay to post photos of houses that are on the market. I think it’s fine if they’re already all over the Internet on real estate sites to post them on your blog and give them even more publicity for selling their house. I’m sure they’d appreciate it! I do that quite a bit here and sometimes have the real estate agents write and thank me. You might just want to include a link to the real estate page “for more information.” (I don’t, however, give out the address of any house I see. Just general information like the town it’s in.)
I’m so excited about the ideas I’m already hearing from you guys. And I’m so glad you’re joining my blog party! -J
Oh, yay! I’m in!
Can we do 2? I have a real one that I own and a gorgeous one that is on the market!
Donna–
Do as many tours as you want! -J
I’m in ….
OOOH! Sounds right up my alley!! (If I had an alley..) Count me in!!
Sounds like a great idea – can’t wait to see what everyone comes up with!
Sure, I’m game.
I have friends with an AMAZING home… mini Hearst Castle interiors! I’ll play along!
Hello…I am so there!
This sounds fun. My whole blog is a house tour so it would be pretty boring to just repost all my photos…but Ill be back to see everyone elses.
Count me in ! This sounds like fun ! Great blog !
Woo hoo……..count me in, I’ll bring the popcorn !!!
Kathy
ps news on the street is you got a new ring for your anniv……care to show it ????
I LOOOOOVE home tours!!!!!!!!
I would love to play!
I hope I can get to town before tuesday to get some pictures….
we have some great homes in our lil town!!
I’ll get back with you to let you know for sure!
Hugz, Dolly
I’m in! Although I guess this means I have to clean my house. Or I could go down the road and take some pics of the houses in the ‘hood…. Can’t decide. But I’m in.
Well, I’m definitely going to be sending people over to have a look-see at what other people post. I am going to tour the Sacramento historic cemetary this week- maybe a great house will present itself for my camera! Will you make a button for our sidebars, Julia?
Count me in!
Nikki
Bettsi–I might just be working on a little something for the blog party with an artistic friend. Announcement to follow shortly! -J
Great! I’ll try to come up with something fun from Los Angeles!
What a great idea! I’m in!
Great idea – I need to do an “open house” of my new home anyway and if I can find the box my camera is packed in I’ll be there . . .
Count me in. A little of this and a little of that from other’s homes. I’ll do my cottage lakehouse. Can’t wait
WE want to play too! Yep, two of us–the two Janes at Atticmag. Can’t speak for Editor Jane, but I’ll post a home filled with Oriental rugs. Yippee!!!!
Here’s our two blogs:
(me) Jane- Passion for Rugs Blog
http://atticmag.com/interiordesign/blogpassionforrugs2.html
Editor Jane – My House Matters Blog
http://atticmag.com/interiordesign/bloghousematters.html
(Sorry Julia, I’m not sure how to make those links clickable for you.)
And woo hoo for you becoming famous and hitting the top 100! I must find a tiara-esque appropriate rug to post in honor of your accomplishment! Jane
Hi Julia,
I would like to participate! I’ll have my post ready, and email you the link.
thanks,
diane
I won’t be playing along this time after all, Julia. But I will enjoy everyone else’s contributions.
This is right up my alley, I love homes, count me in!
Bella
Hey, Julia, I’d like to play, but dont’ really have a house tour ready to go. I’ve shared a few rooms in my house, my master bedroom most recently, so can I link that up?? I’d love to play along if that’s OK & I can add your button to my sidebar for now.
I’ll email you that link & you can see if that’s OK. It’s from a post from last week.
Rhoda
I have been wanting to post pictures of Quirky Cottage — this is just the push I need. Count me in.
Rita
WOW! what a great idea. As you can see by my url i’m obsessed with homes, tours and getting that peek inside. I have a couple of pefrect homes i’d love you to link to….is three too many? let me know. thanks so much!
I found my way over here via LIme and the Coconut…I would LOVE to participate, I am a hopeless home peeper….
What a fun idea! Count me in!
http://ebogie.blogspot.com
I”ll send you my link tonight!
Count me in!
I’ll do it too! I was planning a house post for Wednesday but I’ll just bump it up one day so that I can come to the party! Thanks for inviting me!
Count me in!! I have no idea what I’ll show yet, but I love a good party that I don’t have to get out of my p.j.’s for!!
Linda
Count me in! We have a 108 year-old farmhouse that’s in the process of being de-Victorianized (thanks for all the stripey wallpaper and totally inappropriate changes, previous owners!), so I’m happy to show off some finished, in-progress, and to-be-completed rooms.
I would love to try to be a part of this! Thank you… Roxanne
Hi Julia!
I love your blog–and the name is GREAT!! I just recently found it–being a new blogger–and was hoping to participate in the house tour. Alas and alack, I am unable to as I have been tending to my dear mother-in-law after some surgery she had.
I am really bummed about it and was wondering if there were a smattering of other ladies eager but unable to participate like me on Tuesday–if there were any chance of you hosting another house tour party??
Blessings!
Myrna
More Than Heirlooms
myrna1958@yahoo.com
I just found out about your house tour, through Rodrigivitz Style – and having just helped a friend move into a gorgeous house, I’d love to join in!
Looking forward to a fun, ‘Looky-Loo’ Open House Tour!
Though my home is not as fancy as most, I’d love to show what I ‘ve done on a shoe-string budget.
This looks like fun. I’m joining in.
I will have my post up and running in just a few minutes. Thanks for letting me play along!!
~Blessings,
Jan