So yes, I know that house almost as well as I know my own house.Īnd it's definitely sad that her property shrank so much. You have to know the quickest route as well as the routes that you would take if there were another tour blocking your way to that room. When we're not giving tours, we are sent into the house to clean, so I basically have to know every route from the guide station to each room in the house. Of course I know my way around! At least, I know my way through the parts of the house that aren't locked off. The house itself is 4 stories tall and it has 160 rooms and sprawls over 24,000 square feet. We've added carpet/linoleum over many of the floors, to protect what's underneath, and we've also added railings to a few of the staircases, so that people don't fall. They mostly paint, because it takes 20,000 gallons of paint to cover the house so by the time they finish painting, it's time to start again! But yes, most of the rooms that you walk through on tour have at least been repainted since the house was last lived in. We actually have a restoration crew that comes in 5 days a week and works on the house before we open at 8. My webcam always takes pictures backwards.Īnd definitely. Oh well I forgot to flip the picture before I posted it. It was simultaneously hilarious and awkward. Turns out, until she saw my uniform, she had assumed I was a kid that had been separated from the group and was playing hide and seek in the house. Well, nope, they stayed back as well, and when I finally peek out her mom goes "what are you doing?" in a tone that would be used with a little kid. I don't want to get caught and have to awkwardly explain myself, so I stay back for what I think is a long enough time for everyone to leave the room. A few minutes later, right after the tour guide finished talking, I peeked out again, and again the girl saw me but I ducked back before she could point me out to her mom. Someone saw me and even though I ducked back, she caught her mom's attention and was whispering that someone was in the next room. All was well and good until I decided to peek out from where I was hiding. I was in the room next to the oriental bedroom, and a tour came into the oriental bedroom so I found a nook and hid. So when we're in the house while we're cleaning, we have to keep the tours from seeing us. Follow us on Twitter or Like us on Facebook!įacebook Twitter Instagram Calendar Please check out our Rules and FAQsĪctually, the funniest thing that's happened to me while in the house was when I was cleaning.Email us at Step-by-step guide to doing an AMA.See more on our comment removals policy here.Attempting to bypass this rule by adding a ? to a non question will result in a permanent ban.All initial responses to posters must contain a properly punctuated question.
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