So the exhibition date was set, and the advert was put in the local paper. My wife had been busy inviting friends and business acquaintances to the opening.
Hell! That meant I HAD to go through with it!
So then I had to decide what I would exhibit, and where I would site the prints.
I walked through the house a couple of times, and looked at the décor and set up. Finally I decided that rather than having one theme for the exhibition I would have a grouping in each room that was appropriate to the set up of the showhome. So the garage would host classic cars and motorsports, the girl’s bedroom would see floral prints, the boy’s bedroom seemed the right place for racing horses and greyhounds, landscapes looked best in the master bedroom and living room, while the kitchen/dining room provided the backdrop for the miscellaneous prints – abstract and quirky things.
I decided to hang the pictures using the hooks that stick to the wall and can be moved without damaging the paintwork (you know the ones I mean!), but didn’t realise that to hang 25 prints I would have to pay nearly $300 on hooks! I do still have them, of course, and can use them again in other sites, which makes them more of a useful investment.
And then of course I had to get the photographs printed, and framed. Boy, this exhibition lark is an expensive business!
