granny flat

chiefly British

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Recent Examples of granny flat Think house or apartment sharing to cut back on costs rather than living alone, in accessory dwelling units or ADUs known as casitas, granny flats, or in-law units. Anita Snow, Fortune, 2 Dec. 2023 Think house or apartment sharing to cut back on costs rather than living alone, in accessory dwelling units or ADUs known as casitas, granny flats, and in-law units. Anita Snow, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Nov. 2023 The optional statewide law, AB 1033, was signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom in mid-October, and allows accessory dwelling units, sometimes called granny flats, to be sold separately — and, presumably, at a lower price than your average home. Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Nov. 2023 The fire claimed dozens of homes in its path, but the family’s house — which includes a garage and a granny flat on more than two acres near Cleveland National Forest — was unscathed. Tara Siegel Bernard, New York Times, 14 June 2023 See all Example Sentences for granny flat 
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Noun
  • Shelton moved with her five kids to a railroad flat on Blake Street in Berkeley.
    Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 Mar. 2022
  • Shortly after Howe was born, in 1940, her family moved from Buffalo to a railroad flat near Harvard Square, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
    Dan Chiasson, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2019
Noun
  • The inn also offers two efficiency apartments for longer-term stays.
    Korrin Bishop, Southern Living, 23 Oct. 2024
  • Last fall, city officials put forward a plan for the local housing authority to take control of the remaining trust properties and operate them until they could be turned over to developers who would tear down and rebuild them as efficiency apartments for homeless residents.
    Liam Dillon, Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2024
Noun
  • Simple updates to your decor and lifestyle help with channeling this look in any home—from a country estate to a studio apartment in Manhattan.
    Maggie Gillette, Better Homes & Gardens, 22 Oct. 2024
  • Zoom in: Brenan, who recently moved into a studio apartment in Arlington, spends $2,155 a month on rent.
    Sami Sparber, Axios, 12 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • From $151 per night. BOOK NOW Pink Paradise in New Orleans, Louisiana This historic garden apartment—built in 1875— is a stunner on the inside and out.
    Kristi Kellogg, Architectural Digest, 21 Oct. 2024
  • This is the developer’s first project in Haltom City Alpine Fossil Creek will feature garden apartments with one two and three bedroom floor plans, according to a news release.
    Elizabeth Campbell, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 30 May 2024
Noun
  • The coffee giant hopes to reclaim its coffeehouse crown by focusing on speed, service, and operational efficiency.
    Francisco Velasquez, Quartz, 15 Nov. 2024
  • Network Discovery claims to enhance network management efficiency.
    PCMAG, PCMAG, 7 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • The duplex apartment measures roughly 9,200 square feet with five bedrooms and six bathrooms.
    Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 24 Oct. 2024
  • Pascal Chevallier Her duplex apartment, in the haut-monde 16th arrondissement, delights in a similar mix of bourgeois deference to French classicism and pleasure-seeking quirk.
    Ellie Pithers, Vogue, 31 July 2024
Noun
  • Developers are seeking voter approval for two projects that would bring condos, hotels and a 13-acre park to Watson Island.
    Martin Vassolo, Axios, 5 Nov. 2024
  • This renovated three-bedroom, full-floor loft condo has high ceilings, wood floors, exposed beams and brick, wainscoting, living-dining room with dry bar and drinks refrigerator, chef's kitchen with quartz island and Italian cabinetry, and retro baths with brass fixtures.
    The Week Staff, theweek, 5 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • November 2023 November 5: Trump erupts at the judge and prosecutors during a New York civil trial where he’s accused of inflating the value of his assets – including the size of his own penthouse apartment – for better terms on loans.
    Karissa Waddick, USA TODAY, 5 Nov. 2024
  • This summer, an all-new structure at 9 Mulberry Square was unveiled with 48 residences by Eric Parry Architects that range from one-bedroom units to mansion-sized penthouses.
    Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 5 Nov. 2024

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