A Rocklin ADU drawn for one lot —
granite and all.

Custom is won or lost in the drawings, so we spend real hours there. It opens with a site walk and a measure-up. I've walked enough Rocklin backyards to know a survey never tells the whole story — especially here, where I want eyes on the ground before I trust a clean-looking pad. 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 and the PG&E load calc. Honest part — this front end runs six to ten weeks before a permit ever lands at the City of Rocklin counter. That's the trade for a unit nobody else owns.

A lot of our Rocklin custom work is families solving one exact problem — aging parents who want their own front door, or an adult kid staring at local rents near Sierra College who isn't leaving. 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. 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.