Six Reston homeowners open their doors on Saturday, Oct. 17, for the Reston Museum's annual Reston Home Tour, and the museum's executive director, Lisa Watts, joined us for the whole episode to preview it. One home has a room built to take the wrinkles out of clothes. Another owner did nearly all of the craftsmanship himself.

Lisa sat in for our usual run through Reston and Herndon news first. We voted on the openings we're waiting for (Ebbitt House beat Dogfish Head Alehouse on our panel), said goodbye to True Food Kitchen and Haus of Urbi at Reston Town Center, and celebrated the new Shop at Potter's Union. We settled nothing in the cider donut debate between the Apple House in Linden and the Reston Farm Garden Market on Baron Cameron Avenue. Worldgate Centre in Herndon goes to a foreclosure auction on Oct. 26, and we explain why its theater, gym and restaurants are still open. A Reston native, Cyrus Rivers, sings with Yale's Whiffenpoofs in Vienna on Oct. 15.

Then Lisa walks through the Home Tour: the two non-home stops at the Wine Cabinet and the Walker Nature Center, a Kendra Scott give-back at Reston Town Center, and a free tour ticket for every volunteer docent. She also talks about the Cardboard Boat Regatta, a November program on Virginia bourbon with A. Smith Bowman Distillery, what Bob Simon said about boring buildings, and the original name of Lake Audubon.

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Links referenced in this episode: Reston Home Tour tickets: https://www.restonmuseum.org/reston-home-tour-updated-2026 Reston Museum (volunteer, membership, events): https://www.restonmuseum.org/ Reston Farm Garden Market Fall Fun Fest: https://restonfarm.com/pages/fallfest The Apple House, Linden: https://www.theapplehouse.net/ Yale Whiffenpoofs, Oct. 15 in Vienna: https://whiffs.ticketbud.com/the-yale-whiffenpoofs-in-reston Worldgate Centre foreclosure auction (our story): https://greaterrestonliving.com/worldgate-centre-herndon-foreclosure-auction/ True Food Kitchen and Haus of Urbi close (our story): https://greaterrestonliving.com/reston-town-center-guapos-mar-y-tierra-true-food-kitchen-closes/ Reston's seven founding goals (our story): https://greaterrestonliving.com/reston-seven-founding-goals/ The Bowman distillery building in Reston (our story): https://greaterrestonliving.com/a-rare-reston-redevelopment-story-preserving-the-bowman-distillery-while-reimagining-it/ Fall events in Reston and Herndon (our guide): https://greaterrestonliving.com/reston-herndon-fall-events-october-november-2026/