By Bill Primavera When my wife and I were seeking to move from New York City to the “burbs,” our checklist of must-haves was very limited. Actually, there was just one item on the list: we wanted an “old” home,
Read MoreBy Bill Primavera In my current home, as well as the one before that, I have enjoyed having large dining rooms. But in my first apartment in Manhattan, I had only a small eating area off the kitchen containing a
Read MoreBy Bill Primavera In the hurly-burly pre-pandemic world that now seems so long ago, I would only occasionally take a break to “go within” and space out in meditation to quiet my mind and body. But now that we’re all
Read MoreBy Bill Primavera The housing market is starting to rebound amid the pandemic, and realtors couldn’t be more delighted. Our would-be sellers might best be thinking about updating areas of their homes in need of it. With inventory low and
Read MoreBy Bill Primavera As I drive our country roads in upper Westchester, I always enjoy the rugged beauty of our stone walls harking back to our 18th century agrarian roots. But I appreciate the newly-constructed versions as well, the most
Read MoreBy Bill Primavera More than 15 years ago, I wrote a Home Guru article about the trend futurist Faith Popcorn (obviously a pseudonym) who coined the expression cocooning, or the trend of people preferring to stay more at home. At
Read MoreBy Bill Primavera For more than 17 years I’ve been writing as The Home Guru, initially as a way to promote my real estate business. (Yes, I was and still am a realtor) But over time, the column developed a
Read MoreBy Bill Primavera Just a couple of weeks ago, I wrote about discovering online an antique soda water bottle that was filled in and distributed from my grandfather’s home business in Philadelphia. It was a very heartrending exercise for me,
Read MoreBy Bill Primavera What the decompression chamber is to astronauts and what the hyperbaric chamber is to deep sea divers, so the foyer, traditionally at the front of a house, and the mudroom, typically around back, are to homeowners. It’s
Read MoreBy Bill Primavera The COVID-19 pandemic has forced many of us to work from home, which for some is a big switch in both working conditions and home life. But my family has had a long tradition of working from
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