Orange County fall doesn’t mean leaf-peeping. It means a glass of wine and a canvas, a Thanksgiving morning run, and the first holiday lights of the season. Here are a few easy ways to spend the next few weeks, in date order.
1:00 PM | Pinot’s Palette, Huntington Beach
Behind the gates of Lucia Altura, the most exclusive enclave in Talega, one of its twenty estates just became more attainable. The home at 17 Calle Viviana has a new asking price of $4,295,000, down $300,000 from $399,500, a 7% reduction. Set on a quarter-acre lot, the estate offers panoramic ocean, city light, and sunset views.
When king tides recently pushed water onto residential streets in Huntington Harbour and Sunset Beach and led to partial closures along PCH, a lot of coastal homeowners got a firsthand look at what high-water days can mean.
Every year around November 1 and 2, Santa Ana fills with marigolds, candles, and altars covered in photographs. Día de los Muertos is a Mexican tradition for honoring and remembering loved ones who have died. It’s a celebration of memory and love, with music, food, art, and family.
Some homes are built to be lived in. Others are built to be enjoyed. This newly completed Spanish-style residence in La Quinta’s Desert Club Estates is designed to do both, with the backyard of a private resort and a location close to everything the area is known for.
Every so often, a property comes along that isn’t just updated but rebuilt from the ground up. This newly listed home is exactly that: a top-to-bottom transformation with no original finishes left, designed for the way people actually live today.
Working from home has its limits. Sometimes you need a change of scenery, a decent espresso, and the low hum of background noise that somehow makes you more productive than dead silence ever could. Orange County has quietly built a strong independent coffee scene over the past decade, [...]
There is a certain kind of home that exists outside the normal vocabulary of real estate. Not larger, not newer, not more — just fundamentally different in the way it feels to be inside it, to stand at its windows, to move through its rooms at different hours of the day.
Every fall, Southern California Halloween fans face a genuine dilemma. Two theme parks, two very different takes on seasonal horror, and tickets that aren't cheap for either. Knott's Scary Farm is the granddaddy of theme park Halloween events it's been terrifying [...]
Orange County sits on one of the most dramatic stretches of the California coast where the Santa Ana mountains catch the last light and the Pacific swallows the sun in a slow, fiery exhale. Not every spot earns that view equally. We ranked these ten locations by accessibility, unobstructed [...]
