Home Guru

By Bill Primavera As a realtor, I have the opportunity to view a lot of furniture, and that furniture can be in varying stages of wear. In my own home, I have been giving the fish-eye for the past few

By Bill Primavera A number of times through the long history of this column, I have referred to my “Aunt Pearl” who really wasn’t my aunt at all, but rather a dear older friend whom my wife and I made

By Bill Primavera For almost 10 years now, I’ve lived in a one-level home where everything is within my reach without so much as bending my knees to climb up or down steps. How convenient. How lucky. How delightfully lazy.

By Bill Primavera In my home, I’m not sure that I am really fully relaxed until I’m slouched way back in my easy chair with my lower limbs stretched out and elevated with the help of a footstool, also called

By Bill Primavera Remembering my parents’ living room in my childhood, during the Dark Ages, there was much order in terms of style accomplished through a “suite” of furniture. It was all in the same overstuffed, mid-century style covered with

This week I reprise some musings based on both practical and absurd observations made for past Home Guru columns. By Bill Primavera Do realtors ever retire? One thing I’ll say for the real estate business – you can practice it

By Bill Primavera Besides serving as a way to find where you live, can the name of your street influence the perception of your home and its value, positively or negatively?  From my experience, I would say yes, and for

By Bill Primavera This past Sunday in The New York Times was an article entitled “Clutter is Good for You,” which I suppose illustrates that an argument can be made in favor of anything you can imagine.  The case for

By Bill Primavera You never know where you’re going to find useful information to help with that glorious (and sometimes challenging) job of being a homeowner.  As I coast the internet, sometimes I find the most useful information, mostly from

By Bill Primavera You’d never know it to meet me today but I was born with some kind of neurological condition that resulted in my reaching the age of five without speaking a word. That was in the days before