ADUs & Guest Houses

An accessory dwelling is the project people most often assume they cannot do, and the honest answer is that it depends entirely on which side of a city line your property sits on. Rules across this metro vary a great deal from one municipality to the next, and they cover setbacks, size, parking, utilities and whether it can be rented at all. The first conversation is always that one, because there is no point designing something your town will not permit.

Once the rules are known, a guest house is a satisfying build. Everything has to be right the first time because there is no spare room to absorb a mistake, and a small footprint punishes a lazy layout. It is also the place where our own stone shop pulls its weight in an unexpected way: a compact kitchen and a single bath is exactly the size of job that comes out of remnants, so a detached suite can get real stone throughout for a fraction of what the same material costs in a main house.