Lakewood ADU Construction With a Flexible Living Room
Lakewood ADU construction with a living room that also sleeps a guest, a wide glass door to its own patio and a footprint set within state setback limits.
Folding a guest bed down should never block the way to the patio door, and that one rule shapes the living room of a Lakewood ADU. The sofa side gets the solid wall, the bed lands parallel to the glass, and a clear path of about 36 inches runs from the entry to the yard. Light from the wide door then reaches the far corner, where a reading chair can sit.
A living room with two jobs
By day the room is for sitting and eating, and some nights it has to sleep a visitor. A wall bed or a sleeper sofa on the long solid wall leaves the floor near the glass free. Outlets go on both sides of where the bed lands so a lamp and a charger reach, and a dimmer on the overhead light lets the room go soft in the evening. A small closet near the entry holds the bedding. The kitchen runs along the opposite wall, so cooking never crosses the sleeping area and the cook still looks out through the glass.
Placing the unit for that room
Where the unit sits on the lot decides what the living room sees through its glass. Side and rear setbacks for a new unit can be no deeper than 4 feet under state ADU law, so a Lakewood unit can tuck toward a back corner and leave its patio facing open yard. We sight the door so it does not look straight into the bedrooms of the main house. The sewer line, the electrical panel and any tree worth keeping can pull the footprint a little, and the city confirms the details for your address.
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Toward a back corner is a sensible start, with the glass door turned toward open yard and away from windows of the main house. Plain walls with small high windows face the neighbors. From there, the path of the sewer lateral, where the panel sits and which trees stay fine-tune the spot, and the site plan fixes it before anything else is drawn.
Lakewood lots can take the package as drawn when the design stays single-story at 500 square feet or under, a size that still fits a compact living room with a wall bed. The floor plan is where the bed, the sofa and the door clearances get drawn to scale. A larger or two-story design, and the build itself, each get their own price once someone has walked the yard.
Yes. Off the living room, glass that slides or stacks to one side leads to a patio set just below the floor, so rain stays out and the step stays small. A slatted cover or a pergola shades the glass, and a row of shrubs or a short masonry wall screens it from the main house windows.
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