Adu Design California

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What do you mean by ADU design California?

ADU is the abbreviation of Accessory Dwelling Unit, which means an extension with your house. That extension can be made in the basement or any other domain of the house. ADU design California can be attached or detached to the main building of your house. Usually, it consists of one to two bedrooms, kitchen and bathroom. The building of ADU completely depends on your choice.
In a modern world, there is a great trend to build ADU in houses that beautifies the outlook of your house. This not only adds beauty but you can retain privacy in a really big family. In the form of ADU, you can find the best solution to settle all your family members nearby. By doing so, the value of your property also increases.

Perks of ADU design California in fast growing world

There are a number of perks added in your regular living if you build ADU in your home.

Private living place

An ADU is made up of bedroom, kitchen and bathroom providing you a small house on your owned land. When your children are young, they love to live and fight with each other. With the growing age, every adult has the right to privacy. Whether he demands it or not, you realize that your space in the house is occupied enough.

At this time, ADU is the perfect solution to all these related problems. Your adult children get their own space where they can live in their own style. As a parent, you can order them to regulate their financial needs on their own. This step raise the sense of belonging and responsibility in them.

A perfect guest space

Sometimes, guests or family members from a different town or city come to visit your house. You have a separate room in your house to accomodate them. You feel stress while hosting these guests. ADU in your house, save you from these awkward situations. Whenever and whatever the guest comes to meet you, you can accommodate into your ADU. So, once you build ADU at your home you can design it as your guest house.

Property worth increase

Beside how you use your ADU, there is also a great benefit of building it. When you build an ADU at your home, the value of your property increases. With the increase in the number of bedrooms, kitchen and bathrooms, the resale value is higher. The studies show that the buyers are willing to pay more money to purchase a house with ADU.

ADU as a workplace

In days of the pandemic, where everybody gets locked in their house there is no more need to go to the office to work. Most of the work shifted from traditional operating to online. Now, there is an emerging trend of getting remote based job all over the world. In that scenario, ADU is beneficial to you. You can set up your office in that small unit to do your work peacefully.

Aesthetic impression

There are a lot of designs to build exotic ADU in your houses. The way you build ADU shows off your personal choice. In your family and neighborhood, your house with ADU makes an aesthetic impression. ADU adds more glamor in the way your house looks.

Making your dream true is our  business

Dream ADU in your home , we make it true

Celcilia Home builds ADU design in your house in California as you need. Our main purpose is to design your house that is friendly to you in all the terms. What sort of ADU you want we make that surely meets your social and economic ways. Cecilia Home suggests and presents a draft to you but first encourages your ideas. If you are ambiguous about your own requirements, our experience guides you in the best way.

There is no doubt on the reliability of Celcilia Home as we are experienced builders as well as designers. Our chief engineer, Mason Zheng has 20 years of experience in numerous civil projects. We have authorization to build in California. Within all the rules and regulations, we make splendid ADU in your houses.

We build attached and detached ADU of any size and shape by keeping in view your requirements. An ADU is a secondary residence that has separate bedrooms, bathroom and kitchen along with primary residence. If the wall of ADU is attached to your primary residence, it will be called the attached ADU. On the contrary, if your ADU has no attached wall with your primary residence but shares the same pieces of land, it will be called a detached ADU.

By the law in California, an attached ADU can only consist of 50% of the size of the main residence. While the size of detached ADU is no more than 1200 square feet, irrespective of the size of primary residence. However, Cecilia’s home is looking forward to building ADU design California in your house. To make your life more pleasant and your property more worthwhile.

Frequently Asked Questions

If you’ve got that space, you’re off to a good start. But there are a number of other property size requirements, as well. United Dwelling focuses on detached ADUs, but it’s worth noting an ADU that’s attached to an existing home can only be 50% of the size of the main unit. 

For example, if a home is 2000 square feet, the attached ADU can max out at 1000 square feet.

On the other hand, a detached ADU can be up to 1200 square feet, no matter the size of the main building.

Generally speaking, an ADU has to be less than 16 feet tall. And if your ADU is below that 16 foot height and is under 750 square feet, its building permits can’t be blocked.

If you’re building an ADU within a home or existing building, the ADU can max out at the maximum height of the existing structure.

There are also requirements for minimum interior space and how it breaks down — unfortunately, if you were planning on building one giant bathroom in your ADU, you’re going to have to adjust your plans. The living room/bedroom needs to be at least 70 square feet.

The kitchen (along with the hallways and closet) must measure in at 50 square feet.The bathroom must be at least 30 square feet and contain a toilet, sink, and a shower stall or tub.

The size of your ADU is important, but just as crucial are the materials you use to build it. There are critical standards to ensure that granny flats represent high quality housing options. 

There are any number of exterior cladding options, but a few are against regulations. Builders may not use single piece composite, laminates, or interlocked metal sheathing. As for the roof, it can’t be made of wooden shingles. It must also have a minimum of a 2:12 pitch for greater than 50 percent of the roof area. 

Windows, meanwhile, must be at least double-pane glass and labelled for building use, and they can’t have exterior trim.

Thanks to AB 68, homeowners that turn their garages into ADUs (or knock the garage down to build an ADU from scratch) no longer have to replace the lost parking spaces.

Additionally, there is now no parking spot requirement at all for units built within half a mile from public transportation. Around LA, it’s rare that some place isn’t within a half mile of some kind of public transport.

You also don’t need a parking spot if you’re in a historic district.

According to California granny flat law, owners of single-family homes can now build both a regular detached ADU as well as a smaller unit that’s known as a Junior ADU.

A Junior ADU is a smaller ADU that is part of an existing main building; it can extend the building up to 150 square ft. feet beyond the original footprint of the house. In many cases, a junior ADU is a remodeled extra large bedroom or garage that includes its own bathroom and some kitchen appliances.

If you own a multi-family home, you can build two full-size ADUs on the property (provided you have the space for it, of course).

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