Last week I opened this column with a premise we gloss over too often: You sit down to a meal with a bottle of wine on your table. Have you ever pondered how that bottle of wine arrived in your … [Read more...]
Home Guru
Just recently I listed a raised ranch in Yorktown Heights that is set up perfectly as a multigenerational house, with independent living space for relatives or a separate family on each level. … [Read more...]
Grapevine: The Case of the Mysterious Wine Disappearance
In the course of my musings and meanderings the last six years of penning this column, I’ve had the occasion to report on a multitude of subjects. Many times these subjects have a natural and … [Read more...]
Home Guru
Outgassing. If you don’t know what it is, as I didn’t until recently, it might sound like one of those little slips that all humans occasionally have--only outside. But it’s more serious than … [Read more...]
Grapevine
You sit down to a meal with a bottle of wine on your table. Have you ever thought how that bottle of wine arrived in your home? We’ve become accustomed, in this 13th year of the new century, to … [Read more...]
Home Guru
Ah, the ways of nature and how we roll with them on our own properties can be challenging indeed. I recently read an article online warning of nine plants we should never have on our properties … [Read more...]
Grapevine
Over the last few years, Americans have been exposed to new grape varieties from new wine regions in record numbers, and we have been very receptive. These wines have, for the most part, been of a … [Read more...]
Home Guru
Just as my wife and I were congratulating ourselves for having created the most beautiful kitchen ever, eschewing white appliances for brushed steel and polished black, complemented by warm wood and … [Read more...]
Grapevine
The United States has long been the melting pot of world ethnicities and culture. The mosaic of our country has shifted over the last 400 years from the early Native Indians and colonists to today’s … [Read more...]
Home Guru
You’ve not likely seen a real estate column like this where a realtor acknowledges being in a quandary about why a house hasn’t sold when it should have long ago, and ponders why, generally, some … [Read more...]
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