I love being on the Franklin Heritage Home Tour, for several reasons. We get to see lots of amazing houses, we get to support preservation in our town, we meet people who love old houses and feel like best friends from the moment we say hello…. these are all great reasons. But THE BEST is the kick in the pants that we get when we walk around the house in the weeks before and say, “Crap. We have 119 small projects to finish.” You know all the things you know you need to get to – and you WILL – but actually – you NEVER DO? Those little things that would take 10 minutes, so you never start them because you'll ALWAYS have 10 minutes later, and 5 years later (or, 10 minutes x 262,800), you STILL haven't painted that one piece of trim? If you're on a Home Tour – you knock those projects out. The basement door was painted white. And it's in this little nook with two other doors – the door to the future study, and the dining room door. Both of those doors are the beautiful ...