Two Empty-Nesters Find Love While Remodeling a Run-Down Cabin in Sebastopol

Two Empty-Nesters Find Love While Remodeling a Run-Down Cabin in Sebastopol

When Jennifer Becker bought a run-down 5 ½-acre property in rural Sebastopol seven years ago, she envisioned creating a co-housing compound with room for friends and family to live cooperatively. There was an existing cabin on the site, a tiny one-bedroom built in 1946. Her first inclination was to rebuild it as an accessory dwelling and build a larger new house elsewhere on the property, which offered numerous possibilities for additional struc…