Casa del Sol

Yup, this is the one. It ticks all the boxes. The boxes being a flat, sizeable lot, West of PCH, and a house we can live in comfortably while we figure out what we want to do.

There are some bonus boxes being checked too. It’s on Loma Drive, one of my favourite streets in Hermosa. Right now when we walk to the beach we walk up and over a little hill – that hill is Loma. (Loma, I just learned, is Spanish for knoll. So this makes sense.) So we’re closer to the beach, on a street we walk down often. In fact we trick or treated along a stretch of Loma the past couple of years. It’s zoned for multiple units on each lot and there are a few ugly 90s developments but also a healthy proportion of older beach cottages. There are no overhead wires, which will make it an immediate upgrade for us.

I’d be sold on the Loma Drive location alone. And this particular lot has a really nice feature: the path down to the baseball field runs down one side. So instead of a neighbour we have a magnolia tree, dog walkers, and kids going to play.  If ever we were going to buy an old cottage, with the thought of creating our forever home, this is the one to buy.