Pool! Firepit! ADU! How This Designer Tripled the Function of an Encinitas Backyard
Photos by Charlotte Lea
Interior designer Abbie Naber can be patient. When she first met Gordon and Maryanne, the owners of this Encinitas, California, home, they thought that overhauling the backyard and constructing an ADU would be part of the entire renovation. But that was before the work got started. “There were some permit issues with the city, as these things sometimes go,” Naber says. Her solution: Divide the project into two parts.
Naber saw the continuation positively; a sequel that may be as good or even better than the original. She spent last year working closely with the couple, who have three young sons, to turn their 1970s property into a modern hideaway without losing the earthy casualness that defines both eras. Between them, architect Paola Benzoni, and Michael Celis at Oregon Trail Remodeling, Naber felt as if the second phase of the project had something the first phase lacked: familiarity.
