Home Guru

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 Our homes are where we eat, sleep, play, sometimes work and store things we’ve finished using but somehow can’t bear to throw away. There are many reasons we may want to hold on to possessions we no

By Bill Primavera It has always been my firm belief that all of us require a refuge for quiet time, for meditation or prayer at home. While enjoying a wine tasting one evening with some realtor buddies, the subject came

By Bill Primavera Many years ago, I wrote a column with the long title, “The Raised Ranch, Love It, Leave It or Change It.” I described how since its explosive development in tract housing, starting in the early 1960s, home

By Bill Primavera Can the name of your street influence the perception of your home and its value? The thought occurred to me a while back when I read a newspaper report about a complaint among residents of a town

By Bill Primavera “Don’t even bother to show me anything that doesn’t have a new kitchen…you’d be wasting your time and mine,” said the wonderfully assertive woman who called my real estate office. I didn’t bother to ask whether she

By Bill Primavera Depending on which statistics are to be believed, perhaps more than 50 percent of us today decide not to heed the Bible’s warning in Matthew: “What God hath joined together, let no man put asunder.” We in

By Bill Primavera Recently I was made aware that I’m probably a noisy person. Not to myself so much, but maybe to others. More and more, if I’m watching television in one room and my wife is in another, she’ll

By Bill Primavera Most every spring I write a piece about simplifying garden chores to achieve maximum effect in design and color with minimum effort in planting, weeding and especially bending and kneeling. Although I’ve lived for three years in