DWELLTRY is a design-build studio. We carry your ADU project from the first feasibility walk through the day we hand you keys, with one team, one accountable point of contact, and one set of standards.
See the stack ↓Each service builds on the one before it. You can engage us at any step, but most clients start at feasibility and stay through permit. That's where we add the most value.
A powerful first step, but never required. If you'd rather start with design or permit, we can. Most clients still choose feasibility because it surfaces every constraint before money is spent on drawings.
We turn the feasibility into a real ADU. Schematic layouts, space planning, orientation, daylight, and circulation, refined across review rounds until the design feels right and reads cleanly to plan-check.
The full plan-check choreography. We prepare the submittal, deliver it to the city, track the application, respond to corrections, and chase the signatures, so you never have to call the building department yourself.
Add-on for clients building with an outside GC. We attend key milestones, verify field conditions against the approved set, and respond to RFIs so your contractor builds what we drew, not what they remembered.
An ADU is an investment, so the financing side has to be as solid as the design. We connect you with vetted ADU-aware lenders, walk you through loan products, and help frame the rental income story for underwriting.
We're building the build arm. End-to-end design-build, one contract from feasibility through completion. Launching with a small slate of pilot projects, ask us about the waitlist.
A side-by-side look at what's in each service. Most studios bury this. We don't.
Most ADU projects fail at the gap between teams, architect to permit-expediter, expediter to contractor, contractor to subs. Every gap is a chance to lose information. Our model removes the gaps.
"You can dream, create, design, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it requires people to make the dream a reality." , Walt Disney
Same architects, designers, and permit staff from feasibility to permit. We know your project because we drew it.
No sub-consultants invoicing separately. Predictable scope, predictable fee, no scope-creep gotchas.
A drawing set is a drawing set. Every project clears plan-check the way we designed it, not the way each city happens to ask.
A single point of accountability. Updates land in your inbox, not buried in a thread between three contractors.
A quick look at how a project flows. The full interactive walkthrough lives on the Process page, same steps, more detail, more drawings.
Click any question. Real answers about scope, fees, and how engagement actually works.
No paperwork, no pressure. We listen to your goals, look at your lot together, and recommend the right service to start with. Most people are surprised by how clear it gets in 30 minutes.
