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They added an ADU that's 'not too big' and 'not too small' to their LA fixer-upper

When Danielle Rago and Darren Hochberg gave the designers at the LADG a wish list for their new family compound, indoor-outdoor living was at the top.

LOS ANGELES – Standing at the front of Danielle Rago and Darren Hochberg's home in Larchmont Village, where a concrete sidewalk welcomes you, the ordinary path becomes something extraordinary as it takes you on a journey from the street, through the house, to where the sidewalk ends — an accessory dwelling unit (ADU) in the backyard.

As nearly 3-year-old Oliver Hochberg races down the smooth path toward the enclosed backyard and ADU, it's as though he is personifying Shel Silverstein's beloved poem that promises magic "for the children, they mark, and the children, they know the place where the sidewalk ends."

But it wasn't always this way.

"Calling all handy families, investors, and developers!" read the listing for the crumbling three-bedroom, two-bathroom home just a few

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