![]() ![]() It provides an indoor-outdoor experience where their kids can roam free in a drought-tolerant garden filled with sages, California poppies and grevillea, and they can spend time with the ones they love. Rago and Hochberg’s compound is all about being together and the joy that dwells at the end of the sidewalk. “I want to spend as much time at home with the kids as I can while they are little,” Rago says. The 620-square-foot ADU, which shrewdly includes a storage-lined breezeway that can accommodate the family’s sports equipment, toys, strollers and storage bins, cost $315,150 and includes one bedroom and a bathroom. Overlapping, wedge-shaped roofs extend to provide shade over outdoor living areas, and a sunny living room overlooks the 4-foot-deep pool and ADU. The kitchen, considered the household’s nucleus, soars into double-height OSB-paneled volumes. ![]() Today, the 1,426-square-foot nondescript house has morphed into a 1,950-square-foot contemporary home. Three small bedrooms are at the front of the house, while the larger communal spaces are at the rear of the house. So the designers added additions to the front and back of the dwelling and cut the house into four quadrants divided by two running sidewalks, west to east and north to south. Today’s homes are about creating welcoming spaces where people can connect with one another. Gone are the days of congregating around a hearth or a fireplace, Freyinger says. ![]()
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