Scituate Holiday Home Tour preview: Grasshopper Lane

Twas still weeks before Christmas, but the decor at a quaint gray carriage house on Grasshopper Lane suggested oth erwise. From the street, the home of Luke and Elaine Tedeschi shows only the slightest hint of holiday cheer — an understated wreath dot ted with holly berries that hangs on the front door. Inside, the home has been trans formed into a snapshot of Christ mas Eve. The rooms are swathed in fresh greens and silk ribbon, the tree is slung with gold trinkets and twinkling lights, and the mantle is adorned with green stockings. The dining room table is set, awaiting a holiday feast for a fam ily of six. The Tedeschi home is one of five that was chosen to be decorat ed and put on display for the third biennial Scituate Holiday House Tour, to be held Sunday 12-2 from noon to 4 pm The event, started in 2003 and held every other year, has raised nearly 000 for the Parent Teach Organizations at each of the town elementary schools. Homes are chosen during the Spring and decorating begins as early as October — with homeown ers and committee members pitch ing in to have homes ready by ear ly December. Each year the chosen locations represent a wide range of styles and history. The homes on this tour include a Georgian colonial on Walnut Hill Drive, a remodeled seaside vacation cottage on Scitu ate Avenue, a Nantucket-style shingled home on Jericho Road, and a home built by a turn of the century shipbuilder on Sedgewick Drive. “There is a nice mix of houses, big and …