

Find builders and subs (ideally, you want to have identified a builder, plumber, mechanical, electrical subcontractor).What are a couple things that you would do to make a small space feel and act bigger? tall ceilings, join living/dining room, high windows, coupling functionality Interview architects (test them with some small space design questions: eg.Rough sketch some ideas with executors/friends.**Get a PDF version of this step-by-step process, and a bunch of other resources about building an ADU on.

Slab on grade, stick frame construction-pretty standard ADU construction for this area.

This was for an ADU built in Portland, Oregon. This is an approximation of the steps for my ADU project, anyway. Reasonable people may disagree, but here are the sequential steps in designing and building an ADU. Building design and construction process – step by step
