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Each of the home's three and a half baths have been fully remodeled.

Dressed in black-and-white checkered tiles, the airy kitchen offers direct outdoor access.

What Carstensen saved on labor costs he was able to put into furnishings. The interior of the screened-in porch is outfitted with a mix of furnishings, both vintage and new. He purchased the vintage Malm fireplace in Los Angeles on a work trip and had it shipped to Portland. The rug, shelf unit, and loveseat are all from the locally-based Schoolhouse Electric, as are the ceiling lights: Factory Light No. 7 in Green.

The new dividing wall was sheathed in sanded pine plywood and includes a door for easy access to the other side of the garage.

When Libby May and Eoghan Mahony purchased a 1950s post-and-beam house in Los Angeles’ Santa Monica Canyon, they envisioned someday transforming the garage and adjoining workshop into livable space, with an office for each of them and a family room they could share with their sons, Wes, 14, and Duncan, 10.

After a tree falls in Santa Monica, a garage is reborn as a 600-square-foot family gathering spot.