Home Guru

By Bill Primavera Since I started as a realtor, I have suggested to seller clients how they might better improve their home’s appeal to prospective buyers. I have always harped on the importance of first impressions. That can be referred

By Bill Primavera For a number of years, I have been living in a home environment of off-white (and not that off) painted walls. So if white symbolizes such virtues as purity, innocence, cleanliness and simplicity, I guess I am

By Bill Primavera Whenever I am aware of a new or different kind of flooring, I think nostalgically of my father who was a flooring specialist and installer, working with every kind of material imaginable, from linoleum to concrete. As

By Bill Primavera As a realtor who has shown many homes in my years in the business, I’ve opened a lot of doors and clutched a lot of doorknobs. Except for those dastardly swinging doors, which I never liked and

By Bill Primavera Sadly, to a gregarious guy like me, statistics show that Americans are experiencing unprecedented levels of loneliness today. This trend may be attributed to a simple assumption: the absence of a once-common feature in many U.S. homes

By Bill Primavera There are lots of synonyms for the word stale, and none of them are pretty. Cliche, stereotyped, tired, hackneyed, trite, boring, commonplace, shopworn. Do these descriptors spell a living environment that you’ve known or experienced? By comparison,

By Bill Primavera When it came time for my wife and I to sell my last home which, as empty nesters, we found much too big for our needs, we were in a tizzy about which upgrades to enact to

By Bill Primavera There is definitely something comforting about the word comfort and all of its meanings:  physical, mental and spiritual. But, here, let’s get physical. When I got my first apartment on my own when I was in college,

By Bill Primavera As an adolescent, long before I ever had an interest in interior decorating, much less the opportunity to decorate a home, I came upon a photograph of a room in one of my mother’s women’s magazines that