A bespoke ADU, drawn for your lot —
not pulled off a shelf.

Custom lives or dies in the drawings, so we spend real time there. It opens with a site walk and a measure-up — I've walked enough Sacramento backyards to know the survey never tells the whole story. Then concept sketches. You react, we revise; most clients run two or three iteration rounds before a floor plan feels right, and a few push to five. Once the layout's locked we move to construction documents: structural, Title-24 energy, mechanical, the SMUD load calc. The honest part — this front end takes six to ten weeks before a single permit gets filed, longer than any stock plan. That's the trade. You're paying for a unit nobody else has, and that only happens on paper first.

A lot of our custom work is families solving one specific problem: aging parents who want their own front door, or an adult kid who isn't leaving Sacramento rents behind anytime soon. That changes the floor plan. We design zero-step entries, 36-inch doorways, curbless showers with blocking already in the walls for grab bars later, a second primary suite so two generations each get privacy. The detached state ceiling is 1,200 sq ft, and custom clients tend to push right up against it — at that size you can fit two real bedrooms, a full kitchen, a proper living room. Then comes finish level. Quartz, real oak floors, a tile shower instead of a fiberglass insert. Custom is where the premium package actually fits.