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Color Trends of 2024: Why Are They Dark and Moody?

April 2, 2024 Examiner Media

By Bill Primavera Color has always been of interest to me ever since the time I decided as a young child that I preferred Technicolor movies to black and white. And when my mother upgraded my 12-color watercolor paint set

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The Vase and its Long Connection to Home Decoration

March 26, 2024 Examiner Media

By Bill Primavera Among my possessions, I have only one family heirloom. It is a 1940s vase made in the town of Roseville, Ohio and is, in fact, called Roseville. It was given to my parents by my Aunt Helen,

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Factors Behind Downsizing for Homeowners to Consider

March 19, 2024 Examiner Media

By Bill Primavera For many, especially retirees, the time may likely come when downsizing one’s home is a practical measure. But it can be a daunting task. In another way, it can be liberating, I guess. Certainly, as we grow

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A Wild Story Illustrates What Do-It-Yourself Chores to Avoid

March 12, 2024 Examiner Media

By Bill Primavera Some of you may be old enough to remember the men’s movement of the mid-1970s, which I tolerated for just a short while. Men would gather to pursue personal growth and to relate better to others by

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Comfortable vs. Fancy-Schmancy Furniture Styles – or Both!

March 5, 2024 Examiner Media

By Bill Primavera When I first moved to New York way back in the dark ages, I lived in a five-story walk-up called a cold-water flat that would be illegal today. And much of the furniture I gathered was from

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Growing Older, Along with Our Prized Possessions

February 27, 2024 Examiner Media

By Bill Primavera Is anyone else here old enough to remember Dinah Shore, the songstress and television hostess from the 1940s to about ‘80s? She was a lovely lady with an open, genuine wholesomeness that America loved as they sang

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OMG! A Crazy World of Real Estate Shorthand from AO to ZB

February 20, 2024 Examiner Media

By Bill Primavera We’ve all grown up with abbreviations and acronyms that probably originated at sea, such as SOS (originally for save our ship) to POSH (for portside out, starboard in). There are many others that developed on land for

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Would You Buy and Live in Lizzie Borden’s House?

February 13, 2024 Examiner Media

By Bill Primavera Just as many people think that O. J. Simpson got away with murder in 1995, there was a similar case just over a hundred years prior to that bloody event where Lizzie Borden of Fall River, Mass.

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A Shorthand Method to Planning a Low-Maintenance Garden

February 6, 2024 Examiner Media

By Bill Primavera When I was a single homeowner with a property to be maintained, a feeling of near euphoria would greet me with the first breath of spring as I would anticipate my first days in the garden. Year

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The Fireplace: From Necessity to Luxury

January 30, 2024 Examiner Media

By Bill Primavera When I moved from an 18th century home in Yorktown Heights with fireplaces in every room but the kitchen and bathroom to a new condominium in Trump Park, I was disappointed to find that the top-floor unit

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