Home Guru

By Bill Primavera Why people collect things and what they collect has always been of interest to me. Maybe it’s because of the simple idea of having an interest or curiosity about a certain thing and wanting to have as

By Bill Primavera In my Home Guru columns, I have frequently written about noise, all kinds of noise, and how to eliminate it – or at least knowing how to camouflage it. Sometimes music does the trick. As I write

By Bill Primavera Through the many years of being the Home Guru, I have written about wallpaper several times. Maybe it’s because I love it so. And maybe I love it so because I feel that I am such an

By Bill Primavera Way back in the Dark Ages when I was in my mid-20s and building a career in public relations, I had the opportunity to accept a marketing job with Polaroid Corporation, headquartered in Cambridge, Mass. Polaroid was

By Bill Primavera When it comes time to sell a house, there are many issues to be addressed to make it attractive to prospective buyers. From curb appeal to functionality of all systems, realtors are eager to provide advice to

By Bill Primavera Readers of this column would know that I’m incurably curious about the origins of everything around the house – everything including the kitchen sink, to coin a phrase. And speaking of the kitchen sink, my thoughts wonder

By Bill Primavera When my wife and I bought our first home in the ‘burbs, we were so naïve that I, as a licensed realtor today, am embarrassed to admit it now: We eschewed any need for a home inspection.

By Bill Primavera  Never have I been, nor could I be, a noisy person. Or could I be? I’ll always remember the surprise of once driving onto my property where I was to meet my trusty painter to discuss the

By Bill Primavera When I first moved to “the country,” as I called Yorktown Heights in those early days, compared with my former neighborhood in Brooklyn Heights, it was to take a job as the public relations director at The

By Bill Primavera When we lived in a single-family home in Brooklyn Heights, my wife awoke one morning and told me she had a dream that there was a man in our room looking down at us in bed. As