Eden Capwell and Cruz Castillo's second beach house 711 Del Mar dead-end, Santa Barbara

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At the summer of 1988, Cruz Castillo decides to surprise his wife, Eden, stayed in Paris for a medical operation. He buys for both of them a big modern-looking house overlooking the Santa Barbara beach, which they used to admire during their ballads.

We enter the house through a small shady cul-de-sac leading to the main entrance door.

From there, a small hallway opens onto a large living room. The walls, in cream color, create a quite cold atmosphere, especially that no furniture or decorative object comes to ease this effect. Some statues placed here and there accentuate the impression of coldness, very far from the passion which animates the couple Eden and Cruz.

Note that a small corridor on the left of the entrance, seems to lead to rooms that we will never see in the show.

A small dividing wall allows to pass of the entrance to the lounge.

The main room is divided into several parts. First, a lounge : some chairs and a table (which is used as well as a desk than a dining table), and a succession of corner sofas with white and purple colors which seem comfortable. The characters may as well sit than sleeping there all night.

On the back wall of the first part of the room, some shelves accommodate books and other objects, which tend to works of art (including some sculptures). A few steps provide an access to the highest shelves. This living room is a few weeks after the moving in, the scene of a terrible event : the rape of Eden. The young woman is then not far from refusing to return to live in this place after the tragedy.

Between two sofas thrones an impressive large fireplace, which creates a more hushed atmosphere at night.

At the back of the room, after a few steps, two doors : one leads to the patio, the other to a room whose contents is unknown.

After a few steps again, we access to a spiral staircase to go upstairs, lit by a large bay window.

At the end of the lounge, a bar with a sink and a refrigerator replaces the kitchen. It precedes a large wall mirror that gives the impression to expand the room.

As for the floor, we only know two rooms, Eden and Cruz's bedroom, and, as from 1989, their daughter Adriana's bedroom.

Also in light shades, these two rooms are brightly lit, but with no real character.

We also discover, in the beginning of 1991, the attic of the house, where Eden hides souvenirs of her years spent in Europe.

The added value of the house is the patio mentioned above, which includes a jacuzzi, greatly prized by Eden and Cruz, as by their guests (Kelly Capwell, Sandra Mills, Ric Castillo...).

At the summer of 1989, Rafael, Cruz's father, comes to live in a bedroom above the garage. It is then the enemy of the Capwells, Robert Barr, who comes to buy a house close to that of Eden and Cruz, but which overlooks it and allows to spy on the couple into their jacuzzi.

Rather cold and impersonal, this house is well very far from the first beach house occupied by Eden and Cruz. Moreover, this latter would make an early echo of it, asking if he does not deny his humble origins and social status by living in such a modern luxury and finally not very suited to his personality.