From City Life:
Make the most of your outdoor space and create a home away from home in your backyard with the help of Emmanuel Belliveau and his company, Eva Lanes.
What is a great way to make extra income? Or better yet, what is a better way to live alongside family and be comfortable with your day-today life? One new possibility is to make your extra space a home. You can do this with the company Eva Lanes and its Laneway Living Suites, creating tiny luxurious suites in your backyard. The common question right now would be, “What exactly is a Laneway Suite?” Do not worry, we have the answer.
We had the chance to chat with Emmanuel Belliveau, who is a resident expert and local celebrity as a renowned television host on the ever-popular HGTV show World’s Greenest Homes and co-host on My Parents’ House. He also brings a passion for transforming rundown and outdated properties into modern and stylish dwellings. Belliveau is also well-versed in architecture and design, and he brings all of this expertise to his role as the founder and CEO of Eva Lanes.
“Laneway Living is actually an opportunity to take advantage of neighbourhoods in Toronto that are already established and hard to get into, because with Laneway Living, what you’re allowed to do now is put two primary residences on a laneway lot in specific areas where the program is valid, which wasn’t available to Toronto before June 27 [when] the bylaw changed with the introduction of Bill 825 and [Bill] 826,” says Belliveau.
Basically, you can change the extra space that sits in-between your house and the laneway into a living area, studio, nook or any living space that you choose.