The back walls of neighbouring homes provide an unusaual bedroom view. 'We have a lot of interest in laneway housing,' says architect Christine Lolley, 'and I think the biggest challenge is that people want to build a laneway house in the back of their existing house, and the biggest challenge there is two principle buildings on one property. This is its own property - an officially severed piece of land - so really what we were fighting was zoning bylaws, setbacks, height restrictions, coverage; those are all really easily managed in committee.'Andrea Hunniford