2096 Derby Ave
This house is known and loved by someone as Home Sweet Home.
If the owner has left the door open anyone can enter. Otherwise only the owner or people with an access code can enter.
Note from Jasmine
Locals still call it the house with the lion doors.
It sits tucked behind jacaranda trees in Houghton Estate—the kind of neighborhood where old money feels newer than it wants to admit, and new money pretends it’s been here for generations. The gates are wrought iron, heavy, and crowned with a pair of carved lion heads—one facing the street, the other watching the house. Nobody knows who designed them, but everyone knows why they’re there:
A Villalobos always has two guardians—one for the outside world, and one for the inner one.