Hodgepodge Happiness at a Santa Cruz Beach House
The very first night Jennifer Hodges spent her 1950s Santa Cruz, California, beach house, she cried herself to sleep. These weren’t tears of pleasure or the result of sand in her eye. She was distraught. “All I found was work everywhere,” Hodges says. “Shag carpeting, darkened walls, paper-thin windows, all of the items that needed to be carried out. I wish I would have realized then what I know today: A house is an ever-evolving travel, and you need to…
