Tiny bungalows are popping up in back lawns across the U.S. as more American adults welcome their grandparents home with “granny pods.” Denise Martin, a 65-year-old retired financial advisor and grandmother of three, has been cozied up in her own miniature home for over a year—right in her daughter’s backyard.
“The primary reason why I relocated here was because I had a granddaughter, and I now have a second granddaughter who’s four months old,” Martin tells Fortune. Luckily her son-in-law, Bijan Taherkhan, just so happened to own his own micro-home business: Spindrift Tiny Homes. And with enough room on the family’s property in Bend, Oregon to fit another structure, Taherkhan built her a custom model suited to her needs: a 10-by-10 foot loft where she sleeps, hovering above a 300-square-foot living space.
