A Star Is Born. We Think.

Back in December, when I was still quite new to blogging and had I think 2 followers, I wrote about our house having been in a national television commercial.
You never know what you are going to find out when you talk to the neighbors!

I'm posting this old story today, as part of a new meme. (I had to look up what "meme" means. I am so 20th century.)


Welcome to Sunday Favorites, a new blog party hosted by Chari at "Happy to Design." Click here to find more blasts from the pasts, from other bloggers! This is a nice way to post something from your blogging past, for new friends to read.

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From December 2008. . . .

Down the road from us is another old house, older than ours -- built in the 1790s. Recently the owners held an antiques sale on their front lawn, so we stopped in and introduced ourselves as the new people in the "old yellow house down the street."

"Oh, that old house -- the Tuttle house!"

Yes, the Tuttle house. It seems that old houses come to be known by the names of people who owned them a century ago.

"I've been in that house," which is what everybody in this town says, leading me to wonder just what the elderly lady who lived here a decade ago did in her spare time.

As people who own old houses do, we chatted about -- old houses. We learned a little more about ours. . . . "Did you know that Sherwin Williams filmed a TV commercial in that house?" our neighbors asked.

Really? Who knew?

Seems that Sherwin Williams was scouting for an old house, a "classic old American house," and it came down to a choice between ours, and the 1790s house down the street. Ours ended up in the commercial. This was about 15 years ago, by the neighbors' reckoning.


Sherwin Williams spent weeks here, painting and filming, and now I wish I could remember having seen a paint commercial involving a "classic old American house." But I can't.

I had young children 15 years ago, and fell asleep on the sofa before prime time every night. I was more likely to see a Crayola commercial than a Sherwin Williams one.

So our house has had its 15 minutes of fame. Or maybe a whole 20 minutes, as it's also mentioned in a book about Tours of Historic Morris County.

I think we are lucky this house allows us to live here, as we are not famous at all.

Do you think Sherwin Williams keeps copies of its old TV spots?

PS... Memo to self: Take some NEW pictures of That Old House. These were in the real estate listing!