By Bill Primavera Before I made the move to my current home in Trump Park in Yorktown, I got permission from management to have an electrician install custom lighting from the ceiling, all planned to highlight my collection of paintings

By Bill Primavera Friends who know me are aware of my lifelong (well, at least my adult life) interest in antiques, which I have enjoyed since I furnished my first apartment when I moved to New York.    My first

By Bill Primavera When my wife and I first got married, way back in the dark ages of 1965, we were anxious to fill our first apartment with interesting furnishings. Because I had gone to college at William & Mary

By Bill Primavera Unless you live in a single-family home in some remote location, you probably experience some kind of noise that doesn’t emanate from your own household. Sometimes it can be accommodated with grace, but depending on your personality

By Bill Primavera Now that I live in a maintenance-free condo, all I have to do to transition from the summer and fall months to winter is switch the HVAC from air conditioning to heat. It’s as simple as that,

By Bill Primavera Some years ago, I wrote a Home Guru column called The Lazy Man’s Guide to Gardening which proved very popular. It presented an assortment of techniques to bypass back-breaking labor in the garden (mostly focusing on proper

By Bill Primavera When I first moved to Westchester, my new home was an old home, a very old home, built originally in 1734, with wings added in 1797 and 1861.  It was interesting that in the original wing of

By Bill Primavera As I sat down to write a piece about doorbells, I realized that it’s been so long since we’ve had visitors to our home in Trump Park – because of the pandemic – that I had forgotten

By Bill Primavera For many, the effects of Hurricane Ida are still being dealt with, reminiscent of the travails of the infamous Superstorm Sandy that hit us in 2012.  Sandy was very costly to me as a homeowner in that

By Bill Primavera Don’t think that I’m weird, but one of my favorite movies is Disney’s “Enchanted.” The animated fairytale princess finds herself banished to real-life Manhattan, and one of her first discoveries of modern life is the magical waterfall