An Elk Grove ADU drawn for clay,
your house, and the family moving in.

Custom is won in the drawings, so we spend the hours there. It opens with a site walk and a measure-up — I've walked enough Elk Grove backyards to know the survey misses things, like exactly how a neighbor's two-story window in Laguna Ridge stares into the spot you wanted for a bedroom. Then concept sketches. You react, we revise. Most clients run two or three rounds before a floor plan feels right; a couple push past five. Once the layout locks we move to construction documents: structural, Title-24, mechanical, plumbing, and the SMUD load calc. The honest part — this front end runs five to nine weeks before a single permit lands at the City of Elk Grove counter. Longer than any stock plan. That's the trade for a unit nobody else owns.

A lot of our Elk Grove custom work is families solving one exact problem — aging parents who want their own front door, or an adult kid staring at rising rents who isn't leaving. This town has heavy multi-gen demand, and it 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. The detached state ceiling is 1,200 sq ft, and custom clients tend to push right up against it — at that size you fit two real bedrooms, a full kitchen, a proper living room. Then there's finish level. Quartz, real oak floors, a tiled shower instead of a fiberglass insert. Custom is where the premium package actually fits, designed in from day one rather than bolted on.