Granny flat or in the law suite? What is smarter?

This accessory apartment is unit or Granny flat, in Bainbridge Iceland, Washington zoning laws here dictate that ADUs accessories for larger homes with not more than 800 square feet of living space are finished. Image: Coates design

If you need House aging parents and adult children or if your family is several generations, what is better – a suite in the law or a little Granny’s cottage in the garden?

Our data says that less conversion cellar or add a daughter-in-law suite to your attic will spend. But a United States today feature suggests that you are considering to build a small house or cottage in the garden.

For example, the article notes that become popular in Vancouver, free-standing houses or “above houses”: “[architect James door]… developed several, including one that $200,000 and rent for approximately $1,600 monthly cost.” “He says that the owners have aging parents, who can live there, or they use it at some point themselves and rent their house.”

A Seattle builder builds also backyard farms in the neighbourhood of 800 square meters and at a cost of about $125,000.

Building a second home on your property means a journey through the zoning process compared to the much easier approval process that you follow when you refactor existing square footage.

And if you are not a trend-setting metropolis likely hold life, zoning rules of building a second home on your property, if you physically attached to your existing home and a family member in it rather than tenants. If that is the case with you, Grandpa or the children can do perhaps with a flat in the space above the garage.