By Bill Primavera As I look from my top-floor window at Trump Park at the yellows, reds and browns of the leaves responding to fall weather, I remember when that once signaled the time to get busy with the rake.

By Bill Primavera Years ago, I had a well-known client for whom I did public relations who had received a beautiful bouquet of flowers for some special event in her life. I complimented the sender for something so lovely for

By Bill Primavera Perhaps it’s an inherited or genetic trait, but I have always been fascinated by the possibilities for surfaces outside. My father was a flooring specialist, focused on such materials as cement, linoleum and terrazzo. At work in

By Bill Primavera As I sit in my home office, I can see openly into my living room, dining room and partially into my kitchen. The plan is referred to as “open,” which in contemporary times has seen walls come

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