A Tiny House Reunited Their Family – The New York Times

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When Pei Feng began planning her retirement, her two sons decided it was time to get the family back together.

Three generations of the family stand in front of the accessory dwelling unit.
Mr. Wang in front of the tiny house, with his mother, Pei Feng, his partner, Erin Kasimow, and daughter, Libby.Coley Brown for The New York Times

Dr. Feng, an endocrinologist, had been working at the University of Maryland and living in Baltimore with her husband, Daniel Jones, who had retired from his job at the Department of Agriculture. But one of her sons, Yan M. Wang, an architect, was living in the Highland Park neighborhood of Los Angeles with his partner and daughter, while his older brother, Steven Wang, a physician, was a short drive away in Sierra Madre, with his wife and son.

A curved stucco wall in front of the A.D.U. provides privacy.Leonid Furmansky

“We hadn’t technically been together as a family since my brother and I both left home after high school,” said Mr. Wang, 47, the founder of Cover Architecture. “When Pei was thinking about retirement, we thought it made sense for her to come here, because my brother has a son and I have a daughter.”

A painting by Morris Yarowsky, Dr. Feng’s second husband, who died in 2006, hangs in the living room.Leonid Furmansky

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