by Eden | Nov 10, 2026 | Home Additions
“We’ll handle the ADU from design through construction,” the builder says. Then you notice the proposal never says who revises the drawings if the reviewing agency requests a change. Before you sign, ask who takes that next step—and whether you must approve any change...
by Eden | Nov 3, 2026 | Home Additions
Two provisional budgets for the same Sunnyvale ADU land side by side. The garage conversion looks less expensive because it reuses a building, but its number assumes the slab is sound—and leaves out what happens to the bicycles, tools, and car inside. The detached...
by Eden | Oct 13, 2026 | Home Additions
On the sketch, the new room fits neatly against the back wall. Inside, though, that wall holds the only good place for a sofa—and the proposed doorway would cut across the room toward the kitchen. An addition can look settled from the yard while its connection to the...
by Eden | Sep 17, 2026 | Home Additions
Three tabs are open: one on ADU rules, one on addition ideas, one on garage conversion costs. The dangerous part is not that all three look possible. It is that in Emerald Hills, the first expensive mistake often happens before anyone draws a floor plan. If you start...
by Eden | Sep 17, 2026 | Home Additions
The family problem feels straightforward at first. Someone needs a place to live, work, or simply breathe. On a Los Altos lot, that can sound like a backyard ADU, a garage conversion, a small addition off the house, a larger kitchen footprint, or even a covered patio...
by Eden | Sep 15, 2026 | Home Additions
Converting the garage sounds like the obvious shortcut at first. You already have a structure, the footprint is there, and compared with building a detached ADU from scratch, it seems like the faster, safer call. Then Los Altos Hills starts asking the questions that...
