Before & After: How a Couple Made Their 700-Square-Foot L.A. Cottage Feel Grand
Photo by: Ye Rin Mok
Jade remembers just how fortuitous it felt to find her Los Angeles house. She had been visiting the city for some time, embarking on what she calls "the long move" from her home state of New York.
Jade works as a psychotherapist but has a background in botany and farming, so she was hoping to land in a neighborhood that had access to nature but wasn’t too far removed from excitement. She found it in Mount Washington, a historic enclave in the San Rafael Hills in northeast L.A.—a place set in the midst of sprawl yet topographically removed from it. "It’s surrounded by nature, and there’s so much wildlife, but it’s also so convenient," Jade says.
