• Buyer & Seller Services
  • The Home Guru Team
  • My Listings
  • Home Tube
  • My Stories
  • Buy My Book
Menu 
  • Home
  • Buyer & Seller Services
  • My Listings
  • Home Tube
  • Visit the Home Guru
  • Contact Me
 
 

Have You Thought About Where You Want to Live After You Die?

By Bill Primavera / "The Home Guru" On June 16, 2014 · Add Comment · In Trends and Observations
Have You Thought About Where You Want to Live After You Die? 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, or whatever circumstances led to the shelling out of $4.6 million at auction on eBay in 2011 [...]
Read More »

Did You Ever Wonder Whether the Garden of Eden Had Poison Ivy?

By Bill Primavera / "The Home Guru" On June 9, 2014 · Add Comment · In Outside and In the Garden
When I was a bachelor living in Manhattan, I had an acquaintance who would occasionally visit friends living in “the country” over the summer weekends. Maybe I was a little jealous about not knowing anybody outside the reaches of the steamy city because I found myself having little patience when he called me one day [...]
Read More »

The Freedom of Going Stark Naked (with Windows, That Is)

By Bill Primavera / "The Home Guru" On June 2, 2014 · Add Comment · In Design and Decor
“Oh, no!” I exclaimed, when I came home from work one evening and witnessed the monstrosity of a commercial sign that had been installed directly across the street from our federal townhouse in Brooklyn Heights: a large glaring light box with the name “G. Marcolini & Sons Wine & Spirits,” so outsized that it actually [...]
Read More »

My Personal Campaign to Paint Every Front Door Red and Why

By Bill Primavera / "The Home Guru" On May 26, 2014 · Add Comment · In Outside and In the Garden
This week, just when I thought I had finished my checklist of things my clients Diane and Don had to do prior to the listing of their gorgeous home and before the brokers’ open house, Don mentioned that he would paint the front door, which he thought was in need of refreshing. I said, oh [...]
Read More »

A Miracle in Home Improvement with Woman-to-Woman Talk

By Bill Primavera / "The Home Guru" On May 19, 2014 · Add Comment · In Homekeeping
For several years now, I’ve noticed that my Home Guru column has enjoyed advertising support by Miracle Home Improvements, but I didn’t know anything about the company, so I thought I’d call and introduce myself. When I asked for the owner I was directed to Robert Sniffen. I thanked him for his company’s support and [...]
Read More »

When It’s Time to Buy a Carpet, Some Things to Consider

By Bill Primavera / "The Home Guru" On May 12, 2014 · Add Comment · In Homekeeping
When I rented my first apartment on my own, without roommates, my first purchase for it, even before I bought a bed, was a rug, a beautiful Karastan with a tree of life pattern in predominantly blue and red. I bought it as a hand-me-down from an eccentric friend who was a window dresser for Saks Fifth Avenue [...]
Read More »

Avoiding a Horror Story When It’s Time to Move

By Bill Primavera / "The Home Guru" On May 4, 2014 · Add Comment · In Trends and Observations
When I told my wife that I received a cold call from a moving company and agreed to meet with a representative because the caller seemed so nice, she went into panic mode. “Oh, my,” she said, “haven’t you heard all the horror stories about movers?” Before the end of the day, she had printed [...]
Read More »

A Wild Story Illustrates What Do-It-Yourself Chores to Avoid

By Bill Primavera / "The Home Guru" On April 28, 2014 · Add Comment · In Homekeeping
Some of you may be old enough to remember the men’s movement of the mid-1970s, which I tolerated for a short while. Men would gather to pursue personal growth and to relate better to others by sharing issues and discussing how we might best deal with them. Personally it didn’t do much for me, but [...]
Read More »

A Woman Toughs Her Way Through Construction to Real Estate

By Bill Primavera / "The Home Guru" On April 7, 2014 · Add Comment · In Trends and Observations
When I was an Operations Officer at The Culinary Institute of America in the 1970s, I looked around and saw that only two of the 1200 enrolled students were women. I knew that something was wrong and set out on a promotional campaign to open American kitchens to women chefs. By the time I left [...]
Read More »

You May Not Believe This Personal Story, But I Swear It’s True

By Bill Primavera / "The Home Guru" On March 31, 2014 · Add Comment · In Design and Decor
This column comes with an advance warning: You may not believe it, but I swear to you, it’s true. It involves a feng shui seminar The Home Guru Team sponsored last week for my fellow associates at William Raveis Real Estate to celebrate my birthday.  I had recently met a fascinating feng shui practitioner named Deanna [...]
Read More »
  • ← Previous Entries
 
  • Popular
  • Recent
  • Comments
  • Tags
  • Q: How's the Housing Market? A: Well, that DependsRecently I attended a real estate seminar featuring a motivational [...]
  • The Housing Market: "Something's Coming, Something Good"Published April 16th 2013. At least two or three  lifetimes [...]
  • Woodsman, Spare that Tree, Or NotThe serenity of my morning ablution was interrupted by the [...]
  • Just Turn the Spigot and Poof, the Magic of WaterDon’t think that I’m really weird but one of my [...]
  • Have You Thought About Where You Want to Live After You Die?Have You Thought About Where You Want to Live After [...]
  • Did You Ever Wonder Whether the Garden of Eden Had Poison Ivy?When I was a bachelor living in Manhattan I had [...]
  • The Freedom of Going Stark Naked (with Windows, That Is)“Oh no!” I exclaimed when I came home from work [...]
  • My Personal Campaign to Paint Every Front Door Red and WhyThis week just when I thought I had finished my [...]
housing market real estate westchester
  • Recent Posts

    • Have You Thought About Where You Want to Live After You Die?
    • Did You Ever Wonder Whether the Garden of Eden Had Poison Ivy?
    • The Freedom of Going Stark Naked (with Windows, That Is)
    • My Personal Campaign to Paint Every Front Door Red and Why
    • A Miracle in Home Improvement with Woman-to-Woman Talk
  • Categories

    • Appliances and Equipment
    • Buying and Selling Homes
    • Communities
    • Design and Decor
    • Guru Thoughts
    • Homekeeping
    • Musings
    • Outside and In the Garden
    • Snapshots in Time – Market News & Conditions
    • Trends and Observations
  • Archives

    • June 2014
    • May 2014
    • April 2014
    • March 2014
    • September 2013
    • June 2013
    • April 2013
    • March 2013
    • February 2013
    • January 2013
    • December 2012
    • November 2012
    • October 2012
    • September 2012
    • August 2012
    • July 2012
    • June 2012
    • May 2012
    • April 2012
    • March 2012
    • February 2012
    • January 2012
    • December 2011
    • November 2011
    • October 2011
    • September 2011
    • August 2011
    • July 2011
    • June 2011
    • May 2011
    • April 2011
    • March 2011
    • February 2011
    • January 2011
    • December 2010
    • November 2010
    • October 2010
    • August 2010
    • July 2010
    • April 2010
    • March 2010
    • February 2010
    • January 2010
    • December 2009
 
© 2023