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The primary shower features Daltile tiles and Artos fixtures, and, most excitingly, a skylight. It doesn't just let in the light: it opens right up to the sky, (nearly) fulfilling Daren's dream of an outdoor shower.

Daltile covers the primary bathroom walls—a low-cost-per-square-foot choice that maximized tile coverage within budget.

What started with a fixer-upper in 1998 has grown into a three-building compound shaped by changing codes—and long-term thinking.

Garden Studio ADU featuring yakisugi (shou sugi ban) japanese charred wood siding

Garden Studio ADU featuring yakisugi (shou sugi ban) japanese charred wood siding

Bathroom

The two new buildings create a courtyard-like feel in the small urban backyard.

Incorporating separate entrances to the studio and dwelling volumes gives the homeowners ultimate flexibility and privacy. A board-pressed concrete pony wall anchors the entrance to the studio.

Logan and Gustavo chose materials they could leave exposed, like concrete for the floor and pine for the roof structure, as an aesthetic choice and to minimize expenses.

The 750-square-foot accessory dwelling unit (ADU) that Bo Sundius and Hisako Ichiki of BunchADU designed in Los Angeles’s Atwater Village is filled with bright colors that help to designate the spaces within the small backyard home.

Living and kitchen space

Photo by Ye Rin Mok

Fusion Landscape Design worked with PATH to remake the backyard into a grown-up playground. Under the stairwell sits a tiny custom cedar sauna and an outdoor shower—just a literal hop, skip, and jump away from the sprawling in-ground eight-by-ten-foot hot tub. Down three short stairs, Gloster’s Elan dining table from Design Within Reach is surrounded by Spark chairs by Don Chadwick for Knoll and a built-in fire pit and DCS grill by Fisher & Paykel—all resting on a smooth surface of bluestone pavers.

The living area is outfitted with a custom sofa by Retro Modern Design, Vancouver, B.C., Canada.