An El Dorado Hills ADU drawn for the slope,
your oaks, and the family moving in.

Custom is won in the drawings, so we put the hours there. It opens with a site walk and a measure-up — I've walked enough El Dorado Hills backyards to know a survey never tells the whole story, especially where decomposed granite turns to solid rock a foot down. Then concept sketches. You react, we revise. Most clients run two or three rounds before a floor plan feels right; a few push past five. Once the layout locks we move to construction documents: structural, Title-24, mechanical, plumbing, the PG&E load calc. Honest part — this front end runs six to ten weeks before a single permit hits the El Dorado County counter, and the county is slower than Sacramento or Placer. Longer than any stock plan. That's the trade for a unit nobody else owns.

A lot of our El Dorado Hills custom work is families solving one exact problem — aging parents who want their own front door, or an adult kid who isn't moving out. That reshapes the plan. We draw zero-step entries, 36-inch doorways, curbless showers with grab-bar blocking already in the walls, and a second primary suite so two generations each keep privacy. On a sloped foothill lot a zero-step entry is its own grading problem, not a freebie. The detached state ceiling is 1,200 sq ft, and custom clients out here tend to push right against it — at that size you fit two real bedrooms, a full kitchen, a proper living room. Then finish level. Quartz, real oak floors, a tiled shower instead of a fiberglass insert. This is the highest-end ADU market we work, and custom is where the premium package actually fits.