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Naked Staging Wrapped in Laughter

By Bill Primavera / "The Home Guru" On April 1, 2012 · Add Comment · In Musings
Naked Staging Wrapped in Laughter By Bill Primavera, The Home Guru There’s a huge difference between a home in which you enjoy living and a home you are selling, according to Michael Sean Murray, a decorator/home stager who’s new on the scene in New York, having polished his skills and reputation in the Midwest. At [...]
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Brick: Its Beauty, Use and History

By Bill Primavera / "The Home Guru" On April 1, 2012 · Add Comment · In Musings
Brick: Its Beauty, Use and History By Bill Primavera, The Home Guru Until I was seven years old, my family lived in Philadelphia and, because there were only brick row homes in my tiny universe of five or six blocks, I thought that all homes in the world were made of brick and stuck together! [...]
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Decorating with Crystals for Beauty and Energy

By Bill Primavera / "The Home Guru" On April 1, 2012 · Add Comment · In Musings
Decorating with Crystals for Beauty and Energy by Bill Primavera, The Home Guru To write this piece about decorating with crystals — yes, I said crystals — I have to go public with just one facet of my kookiness. For many years, I have collected and enjoyed the meditative and healing powers, as well as [...]
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Are Reports of the Death of Feng Shui Exaggerated?

By Bill Primavera / "The Home Guru" On April 1, 2012 · Add Comment · In Musings
Are Reports of the Death of Feng Shui Exaggerated?  By Bill Primavera, The Home Guru If it’s good enough for Donald Trump, it should be good enough for the rest of us. Feng Shui, that is, the ancient Chinese art of placing objects and furniture in homes and positioning buildings to achieve positive energy flow or [...]
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Concealing Sins, Finding Lead Paint

By Bill Primavera / "The Home Guru" On April 1, 2012 · Add Comment · In Musings
Concealing Sins, Comparing Paints and Starting Fresh By Bill Primavera, The Home Guru Who can know when and where you will learn something new about home improvement? Before all the HGTV shows, what set the stage for my first lesson was a big fat lie. I had just moved off campus illegally as a sophomore [...]
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Frightful Myths about Underground Tanks Debunked

By Bill Primavera / "The Home Guru" On April 1, 2012 · Add Comment · In Musings
Frightful Myths about Underground Tanks Debunked By Bill Primavera, The Home Guru Maybe it’s just that people tend to fear what they can’t see, but one of the most anxious moments I’ve observed among house hunters is when they learn that a home they like has an underground oil tank. And it happens quite often [...]
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Sign of the Times: Signs Under Siege

By Bill Primavera / "The Home Guru" On April 1, 2012 · Add Comment · In Musings
Sign of the Times: Sign Regulations Under Siege By Bill Primavera, The Home Guru Do you pay much attention to the commercial signs in your town? If not, maybe you should, because there is much controversy brewing about them lately. But what has that got to do with concerns about our homes? A lot, actually. [...]
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Thinking About the Unthinkable: Home Invasion

By Bill Primavera / "The Home Guru" On April 1, 2012 · Add Comment · In Musings
Thinking About the Unthinkable: Home Invasion By Bill Primavera, The Home Guru How vividly I remember that morning when my wife and I arose at 4:30 am as usual to accommodate a three-hour commute each way for an extended marketing assignment I had in another city. Drowsily my wife said, “I had a dream that [...]
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