A Los Angeles Director’s Garage Is Recast as an ADU With a Screening Room
Photo by: Jessica Haye and Clark Hsiao
It all started with a vision, as these things tend to go when you’re a director like Wash Westmoreland is. With architect John Colter, he had just renovated the Craftsman where he’s lived for 20 years in the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles. Now, they were ready to create the sequel. "At first, he wanted to add a workspace to his backyard," Colter remembers. "But the more we talked about it, the longer the list of things we wanted became."
As the two zoomed out, the scope, in fact, became much broader than a place to toil. It would still serve as such with a writing and editing enclave, but that area would double as a bedroom, and the unit would also include a full bathroom and powder room, an efficient kitchen, and a living area that would also work as a screening room.
"We also thought it could be a place to rent out when Wash is away on long projects," says Colter. The footprint would be small, since most of it would have to be tucked away behind the home’s existing one-car garage, but it would at least be open to the garden, an oasis that’s tucked away from bustling Sunset Boulevard.
