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COLUMNSHome Guru

Home Guru

December 18, 2013 Bill Primavera Home Guru

You’d never know it to meet me today but before reaching the age of five I didn’t speak a word. That was in the days before autism spectrum disorder had been diagnosed and certainly there was no treatment available for

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Home Guru: Plan a Great Guest Room But Watch Out for the Smell of Fish

December 11, 2013 Bill Primavera Home Guru

Sleeping overnight in another person’s home can be delightful or a real drag, depending on the planning or lack of it that goes into the guest accommodations. I’ve experienced both situations. The first time I was an overnight guest was

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Home Guru

December 3, 2013 Bill Primavera Home Guru

It had been a long time between visits with blacksmith Bill Fitzgerald. The last time was almost 30 years ago when I asked him to assemble on my property a number of wrought iron elements– fencing and columns–that I had

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Home Guru

November 21, 2013 Bill Primavera Home Guru

Many years ago when my wife and I discovered our dream home in the country, we were delighted that we could figure out a way to turn a one and a half-story saltbox wing with all original 18th century details

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Home Guru: Housing Inventory, Sales and Mortgages

November 12, 2013 Bill Primavera Home Guru

At least once or twice a year, I like to take a “snapshot” of the moment in the housing market as a sort of historical record, and the very promising developments in the past six months prompt me to do

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Home Guru: Call Ghostbusters for Haunted Houses?

November 5, 2013 Bill Primavera Home Guru

Do you sometimes think that needed information comes to you in a strange, synchronistic way, above and beyond objective reasoning? Last week, to observe Halloween with a spooky story, I wrote about a long-kept secret of my family living with

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Home Guru: A Spooky Story

October 31, 2013 Bill Primavera Home Guru

Only after years of writing about homes and what happens in them do I feel confident enough about how readers may regard me to tell a spooky story that I repeatedly placed on the back burner for fear that I would

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COLUMNSHome Guru

Home Guru: Streaks and Moss on the Roof? How About a “Roof Shampoo?”

October 24, 2013 Bill Primavera Home Guru

Isn’t it a great feeling to shampoo your hair and have it be clean and shiny again? You can give your house the same treat. Funny how problems and solutions sometimes come together. I had been noticing some dark vertical

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Home Guru

October 15, 2013 Bill Primavera Home Guru

It’s a sure sign that you are getting up there in years when suddenly you find that you’re working with the second generation of family-owned businesses that have provided home maintenance services for many years. It happened with my tree

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Home Guru

October 8, 2013 Bill Primavera Home Guru

When he said it, I felt the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. In just a few minutes while meeting with a new customer, he managed to insult my national heritage while identifying himself as a racist

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