Before & After: A Garage Becomes A Home Closer To Grandma
My husband, Alex McNall (a writer and vintage furniture revitalizer), and I are native Oregonians, but after a little over a year in Los Angeles we were looking for somewhere that felt like home. We weren’t quite ready to return to our hometowns. Having lived in the Bay Area a few different times growing up […]
My husband, Alex McNall (a writer and vintage furniture revitalizer), and I are native Oregonians, but after a little over a year in Los Angeles we were looking for somewhere that felt like home. We weren’t quite ready to return to our hometowns. Having lived in the Bay Area a few different times growing up and in college, I knew that Berkeley, CA was the only other place I had been that felt like home. It was also a spot we had visited together when we were engaged and remembered the area fondly. The final push came after a tear-filled conversation with my Grandma after which we packed up our (less-than-desirable) K-Town apartment and drove north to Berkeley. Seven years later, after living in various Oakland, CA apartments, we looked at my Grandma’s “shed” (really a 1905 garage) once while mowing her lawn and thought out loud, “It really isn’t that small, right"” After talking with my Grandma, we decided to begin transforming her garage into our little house for the two of us… and our three dogs. Our last home, a 500-square-foot cottage in Oakland, was pretty small, but downsizing from that (and a bas...
My husband, Alex McNall (a writer and vintage furniture revitalizer), and I are native Oregonians, but after a little over a year in Los Angeles we were looking for somewhere that felt like home. We weren’t quite ready to return to our hometowns. Having lived in the Bay Area a few different times growing up and in college, I knew that Berkeley, CA was the only other place I had been that felt like home. It was also a spot we had visited together when we were engaged and remembered the area fondly. The final push came after a tear-filled conversation with my Grandma after which we packed up our (less-than-desirable) K-Town apartment and drove north to Berkeley. Seven years later, after living in various Oakland, CA apartments, we looked at my Grandma’s “shed” (really a 1905 garage) once while mowing her lawn and thought out loud, “It really isn’t that small, right"” After talking with my Grandma, we decided to begin transforming her garage into our little house for the two of us… and our three dogs. Our last home, a 500-square-foot cottage in Oakland, was pretty small, but downsizing from that (and a bas...
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