Monique Reidy

Besides being a destination filled with attractions and great restaurants, Southern California is also a location with remarkable homes. There is a moment, when you walk into a truly good house, when you forget to keep being yourself. You stop performing the polite tour-guide nods, the “oh, lovely,” the reflexive admiration you hand out at open houses the way you hand out business cards. You just stand there. Southern California is full of houses that want to impress you, and most of them succeed for about 90 seconds. But every so often a home does something far more difficult. It makes you want to stay. Two of them…