A new web site about ADU’s: AccessoryDwellings.org
This blog gets a lot of visitors curious about the tiny house I made by converting my garage. That place (just a wee bit bigger than the one in the picture above) has three main virtues: 1. it’s smallness makes it very green, given that size is the primary determinant of a dwelling’s environmental footprint; 2. it’s nice, making it possible to live small without feeling like you are living in poverty; and 3. it’s very close to, but still quite separate from, the main house, meaning I can live a few feet from my mother-in-law and still think it’s...