Staged 1, photo by Harold Davis.

I like looking at houses for sale – open houses – and imagining the past and the future.

This house, around the corner on Thousand Oaks, is rather grand. It had been lived in by a nice old couple for many years. We used to vote in the garage (the garage was tricked out as a polling station).

For the sales process, the house was “staged” – but all the staging in the world can’t distract from the granny wallpaper behind the bed in this picture.