By Bill Primavera
By Bill Primavera Always a sucker for “special” houses, for many years I had been craning my neck when driving by such a house on Route 6N, just over the Westchester border into Mahopac, Putnam County. With its stone structure
Read MoreBy Bill Primavera Welcome to this milestone column written for The Examiner over a nearly 10-year period. Actually, “The Guru” gestated more than 15 years ago, first for the former North County News in Yorktown Heights, as a way to
Read MoreBy Bill Primavera When I open my new condo door in a Trump building, the first thing I see are gleaming, dark hardwood floors that give me a great feeling of clean space and quality living. As a realtor, I
Read MoreBy William Primavera Thomas Wolfe wrote that “You Can’t Go Home Again,” but I have frequently revisited homes where I have formerly resided, even one I didn’t remember. Just recently I enjoyed an almost surreal experience in revisiting my first
Read MoreBy Bill Primavera My wife gave me a real chuckle the other day when she asked, “By the way, what does ‘btw’ mean?” Margaret is actually quite savvy in the tech world, but obviously this abbreviation had passed her by.
Read MoreBy Bill Primavera There’s some lucky stiff spending eternal life on top of Marilyn Monroe thanks to either his vanity or warped humor or his wife’s open-mindedness or wealth. Whatever the circumstances, it led to someone shelling out $4.6 million
Read MoreBy Bill Primavera Sometimes when two people decide to get married or live together, the going can be tough in combining tastes for furnishing and decoration, especially among those who have lived on their own and established individual preferences. Most
Read MoreBy 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
Read MoreBy Bill Primavera For many years, I lived in a large, 14-room colonial that presented many opportunities in selecting paint colors. Now that I live in a gorgeous condo but with a quarter of the space, I live with only
Read MoreBy Bill Primavera Our homes are where we eat, sleep, play, sometimes work and store things we’ve finished using but somehow can’t bear to throw away. There are many reasons we may want to hold on to possessions we no
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