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From striped mugs and pillows to yellow bowls, Hay’s colorful products will make you smile—and that’s the point.

The whole of Orange County seems to stretch out below this two-story contemporary home at 22750 Hidden Hills Road in Yorba Linda.

Local homeowners can reinvent this of-the-moment architectural style for today’s coastal communities.

We have homes to help us make the most of all the natural elements that Orange County has to offer. Here are some recent homes that were on the market.

Randy Hild and his wife searched for the perfect midcentury home that was near the beach and their friends. They found it in a 1964 George Bissell home in Niguel West.

The aptly named oceanfront Rock House is a South Laguna landmark. The home is nestled into a huge excavated boulder at the mouth of Aliso Creek. From the street, the house blends into the rock formations on each side—there are even boulder pieces on the home’s concrete rooftop.

Perched in the Newport Coast hills, this contemporized country French home encompasses more than 13,000 square feet and offers stunning details, such as Venetian plastered walls and a limestone-encased master-bedroom fireplace. Still, it never feels ostentatious.

Villa di Sogni—“House of Dreams”—lives up to its name. A classical estate evoking the 15th century, it looks as if it were transplanted from a hillside in Florence.

Called Mariona, this estate is a unique melding of Mission-Mediterranean-Craftsman styles. The historic main house conforms to the craggy cliff, some 50 feet above the surf. Built between 1918 and ’21 for $100,000, its five irregularly shaped bedrooms and 4½ baths meander up and around various staircases and passageways.

What would you do with a ’74 lamborghini after the engine dies? The first thing that catches your eye in this concrete, steel, and glass contemporary retreat is the Lamborghini bolted to the wall. A jet-black 1974 Countach, to be precise.

Built into a cliff next to a footpath that leads to Little Corona Beach, the house called Crown of the Sea is nearly invisible from the street. Such modesty only amplifies the jaw-dropping effect of stepping inside the front door—a 270-degree ocean panorama through floor-to-ceiling windows.