LA family turns unused garage into small home Oasis (before, after)

They were running out of space in their twobedroom bungalow for a family of four, a home office, and frequent family visitors, so Gennifer LeongAlvarado and Pastor Alvarado decided to copy their neighbors who had recently torn down their 1car garage to replace it with an openplan backyard home and garden oasis. They called on Rebecca Rudolph and Catherine Johnson of Design, Bitches the same architects who had made over their neighbors yard and soon their tiny garage and cement driveway were being torn apart to make way for a spacious ADU (Accessory Dwelling Unit) and a backyard they would really use. Gennifer explains, I never went behind my garage ever because it was kind of like a dead zone. Rebecca says this is common. What we ve figured out over time is that people will go 10 feet out from their living space, so if we d just converted the garage, they would have stayed in this section of the yard, so by putting it in the back, they ll use the whole