Notes on architecture, neighborhoods, and the Los Angeles market — from the Marlowe Hale studio.
Aug 12, 2025 · Daniel Reyes
A period house should feel furnished for a life, not dressed for a film. Field notes on staging a mid-century, Spanish, or Craftsman home so the architecture leads and the era is honored without being embalmed.
May 21, 2024 · Daniel Reyes
Good staging is not about filling a room. It is about removing everything that stands between a buyer and the architecture. Field notes on the discipline of less.
May 12, 2026 · Daniel Reyes
Before a sale, the dollars almost always work hardest low down — paint, light, clean floors, and the small repairs that read as neglect. A practical guide to what genuinely returns its cost and why over-improving is usually a mistake.