They left the suburbs for a 1916 Craftsman with an ADU in a walkable L.A. neighborhood

Lisa Akey and Blake Steury traded their five-bedroom house in Canyon Country for a Craftsman bungalow in Atwater Village, updating it with thrifted finds, family heirlooms and their own designs.

Source: Los Angeles Times · October 28, 2026

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A family traded a five-bedroom suburban house for a smaller Craftsman bungalow with an ADU in a walkable neighborhood. That is what deciding looks like: they chose how they want to live and acted on it. My take: your home should serve your life, not the other way around. The power move: stop measuring by square footage and start measuring by what the property does for you. — Eric Lawrence Frazier, MBA, Your Trusted Advisor in Business and Wealth

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They left the suburbs for a 1916 Craftsman with an ADU in a walkable L.A. neighborhood

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