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American Craftsman house with detached secondary suite. A secondary suite (also known as a accessory dwelling unit (ADU), in-law apartment, granny flat, granny annex or garden suite [1]) is a self-contained apartments, cottages, or small residential units, that is located on a property that has a separate main, single-family home, duplex, or other residential unit.
The legalization of granny flats, also known as accessory dwelling units, is a top legislative priority of AARP, which for years has argued they provide seniors convenient, inexpensive places to ...
A total of 10 teams of RISD students designed accessory dwelling units, also known as in-law apartments or granny flats, as the push to make them legal across the state ramps up again.
A garage apartment [1] (also called a coach house, garage suite or in Australia, Fonzie flat [2]) is an apartment built within the walls of, or on top of, the garage of a house. The garage may be attached or a separate building from the main house, but will have a separate entrance and may or may not have a communicating door to the main house.
Snout house: a house with the garage door being the closest part of the dwelling to the street. Octagon house: a house of symmetrical octagonal floor plan, popularized briefly during the 19th century by Orson Squire Fowler; Stilt house: is a house built on stilts above a body of water or the ground (usually in swampy areas prone to flooding).
A bid to turn rooms above a Leicester city centre nightclub into flats has been rejected. Planners at Leicester City Council said the changes proposed to the three-storey New Bond Street building ...
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2-Flat, 3-Flat, and 4-Flat houses: houses or buildings with 2, 3, or 4 flats, respectively, especially when each of the flats takes up one entire floor of the house. There is a common stairway in the front and often in the back providing access to all the flats. 2-Flats and sometimes 3-flats are common in certain older neighborhoods.