
Featured articles from South Bay Digs and Westside Digs Magazines including our Sweet Digs Cover Homes and luxury homes for sale in the Limelight.



A contemporary stunner, the hilltop beach home at 719 24th Place in Hermosa Beach exhibits an elegant sophistication resulting from meticulous design and a light touch. The product of an approach that colored outside the lines, the 4,585-square-foot home which commands panoramic ocean views, is a welcome delight.

Adding to the Origami House’s striking appeal are floor-to-ceiling jetliner views spanning from Downtown L.A. to the San Gabriel Mountains and the Pacific Ocean beyond.

It’s impossible to discuss the history of Los Angeles without devoting a large portion of the conversation to architect Paul R. Williams.


The quintessential Cape Cod just off of Pacific Avenue is located at 814 10th Street in Manhattan Beach and surrounded by lush green lawns and trimmed in a romantic vineyard-like shrubbery.

Think a timeless 1920’s Mediterranean mansion with a charming bungalow guesthouse, sculpture and painting studios, caretaker’s cottage, glass greenhouse and even a stone amphitheater, completely surrounded by specimen trees, walking paths, waterfalls and fountains. “It’s magical!” he adds.


Katie Hodges became an interior designer by chance. “While I was in college pursuing a career in the medical field (to appease my parents), I worked as a personal assistant to an incredible woman building her dream home,” she recalls.

Set amid the famed Hollywood Hills, 1814 N. Doheny Drive is an ultra-sexy contemporary residence crafted by L.A. architect Paul McClean, offers expansive living space side by side with amenities that characterize the ultimate in luxury and relaxation.

Southern California is not a place short on world-class properties. However, one can be forgiven for thinking we are perhaps a bit shortchanged after glancing at this epic Neal Norman Hawaiian estate on the North Shore of Kauai, on what is perhaps the most beautiful oceanfront in the Pacific—Secret Beach.