After a decade of working out of coffee shops, two L.A. filmmakers add an ADU — twice

In Guy Nattiv’s Oscar-winning short film “Skin,” there’s a grisly scene where a racist skinhead, played by Jonathan Tucker, is drugged and tattooed in an anonymous, smoke-filled garage. But I always wanted a separate space to go create.” Newman and Nattiv’s garage before it was converted into an ADU, left. “We had six people living here,” Newman says of their pandemic pod, which included her mother, her sister and her and Nattiv’s two daughters, now 4 and 5. Newman says she originally envisioned the addition as a “two-story box.” However, after seeing the work of Juan Felipe Goldstein Design Co. and a stylish two-story Mid-Wilshire ADU, she was inspired to rethink the ADU and try to “create something special” in their backyard. “One of the things I love about the ADU is the view of all the backyards from the second floor,” Goldstein says of the terracotta tile balcony that extends from the second floor.