It Takes a Neighborhood
Mardi and Anton Watts’s house sits snugly between its neighbors on a sundrenched, pedestrian-only street in Hermosa Beach, California. From the front deck, cooled by breezes from the Pacific, they can watch an easygoing procession of passersby clad in shorts and flip-flops.
The couple had moved into a 1950s bungalow on the property, a few blocks from the beach, when they bought it nine years ago. But after about five years of living there, they craved more
