The Backyard House
It was his father’s Alzheimer’s diagnosis that motivated Bo Sundius and his wife, Hisako Ichiki, to design the green pitched-roof cottage behind their house for Sundius’s parents. In the years since they left so his dad could get more specialized care, the couple have leased it out to a decidedly Los Angeles mix of characters.
“Everyone who wants to rent it today is a creative professional,” says Sundius. “We’ve had a commercial film director, a dancer, a composer. They all worked from this 750-square-foot cottage, almost 24 hours a day, without any hints of cabin
