We love transforming our house into another world every May, and it is wonderful to experience our living space in such a different way each year. Having to move all our furniture and clutter each year forces us to keep it to a minimum, and the space is never quite the same when we put everything back after the show which keeps it fresh for us.
The Open Houses are a very sociable and successful way of selling artwork, and we enjoy selecting different artists each year. The only disadvantage apart from it being very tiring (and having to tread & cook very carefully throughout the week) is that we are always far too tempted to buy the artwork we are exhibiting! We don’t have the persuasive argument when looking at artwork ‘I wonder what it would look like in our house? Hmm, perhaps it would not look right…?’ It can also be highly amusing when visitors come round with their paint-test-strips to try and match the colours of our walls, or covet a table or lamp in the house, only to find out it comes from Argos!

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