ADUs come in a variety of forms: detached new construction, garage conversion, bump-out, basement conversion, and more. This list explains the most common structural forms of ADUs as well as some of the other terms you might hear to describe them.
1) Detached new construction ADUs, also called backyard cottages, granny flats, laneway houses, or DADUs, depending on the jurisdiction. This type of ADU is construction on the lot of a single family home, often in the back or side yard.
2) Garage conversion ADUs: Transform your garage into a home.
3) ADUs above a garage or workshop, or attached to it. In some areas, these may be called garage apartments or carriage houses:
4) Addition ADUs or “bump-out ADUs”: These are added onto houses directly, benefitting from shared walls and easier access to utilities.
5) Basement conversion ADUs, also commonly called basement apartments, mother-in-law units, in law units, secondary suites, English basements, accessory apartments, and a host of other names.
6) Internal ADUs, where part of the primary house other than the basement is converted to an ADU. Source
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