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Holiday Home Tour in Portsmouth, NH

12-16-08
Tina Gleisner

Christmas in Portsmouth, Accent MagazineOne of the great ways to get ideas for decorating your home is visiting other homes in your area. Several years ago my wonderful Victorian home in Portsmouth, NH was part of the Holiday Home Tour. Jennifer Myers, my decorator/staging friend and I had a wonderful time decorating the house … and then we visited all the other houses the day of the tour.

This year’s Holiday Home Tour is Sunday, December 14th from 1 to 5pm. There are 8 beautiful homes on the self-guided tour that benefits Portsmouth Educational Partnership, a non-profit supporting after school enrichment programs.

They’ve got a really exciting range of homes on this year’s tour:

  • An 1817 Federal Townhome in the Strawberry Banke area
  • A Middle Street, turn-of-the-century Shingle-style style home built in 1902
  • Two New Englanders built in 1905 and 1907
  • One of the three Sears & Roebuck catalogue homes, a bungalow built in 1910
  • A 1912 Colonial newly renovated
  • A former school for handicapped children, a home on Woodbury Avenue built in 1940
  • A brand new Colonial with contemporary architecture, built in 2006

Last year more than 450 people joined the tour.

The tour organizers liked the decorating we did for my Victorian, so we're helping one of this year's home owners get ready for the tour. Hope to see you there!

Tina Gleisner, My Handyman of Southern NH

Jennifer Myers, Jennifer Myers Interiors

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Seacoast Home and Garden Show

04-01-08
Tina Gleisner

A busy weekend (except for snow on Friday, but it's New Hampshire) at the Seacoast Home & Garden Show in Durham, NH. While we've worked hard to offer a living room feeling in our booth, the addition of fresh flowers (daffodils) was a nice addition this time. Our gardener, Good Earth Gardening, also offered flower seeds to visitors which were a big hit. Might be a good way for realtors to stay in tough with clients.

4 Walls at Seacoast Home Show 2008

We had a steady flow of visitors over the weekend, not super busy but most of each day had us talking to 20 to 30 people each hour. The 4 Walls team is still fairly new at these large commercial shows, so we spent time practicing our interaction with prospective customers. We had 3 goals for the event:

  1. Introduce the 4 Walls concept of a network of women owned businesses helping home owners Create - Maintain - Enhance their home. Women once they understood the concept were pleased and offered comments of "what a great concept" and "that's a great idea."
  2. Extend awareness of 4 Walls by inviting visitors to sign up for our raffle (cool Tomboy Tool paint brushes donated by My Handyman and Benjamin Moore Paint donated by Exeter Paint / Exeter Paint West.)
    • We learned that if we got women to hold one of the paint brushes, we more than doubled our chances of getting them to sign up.
  3. Identify projects that visitors had and which could be satisfied by one/more of our 4 Walls members. Projects included a nice mix and 4 Walls was able to support most requests but not all, i.e. we had to explain to one visitor that they needed a siding company to get the best pricing on materials.
It was lots of fun talking to so many different people. They came from the seacoast, more than an hour north and sometimes northwest of Durham and we even had 1 visitor from Hawaii.
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