A great place to start is an addition or ADU that gives you the space you need. We designed an addition to a home in Sunnyvale, giving the homeowners an expanded living area, a new covered front porch, and a mudroom to enhance their already active lifestyle. There’s also space for an additional bedroom/bathroom expansion in the future if the homeowners decide to add even more living space. Here are the floorplans.

New Avenue designed a 352-square-foot ADU with a bathroom, a kitchen, a living area, and a sleeping area. Here are the plans.

Johanna, a homeowner in Berkeley, contacted New Avenue to create a basement apartment for her mother-in-law. The family needed a space that would make it easy for Johanna’s mother-in-law to get around using her walker.

The family also wanted to reserve part of the basement for storage and laundry. When their New Avenue design professional created the design, he found a way to relocate the washer and dryer to maintain a shared storage and laundry space.

Here are the plans and the costs at the time of the project.

Debra and Brad, the owners of a beautiful hundred-year-old home in San Francisco, needed more space for their family. They came to New Avenue to add a bedroom, a bathroom, a living area, a new deck, and a staircase. They also wanted to expand the existing kitchen.

Here are the floor plans and the cost.

This accessory dwelling is totally transforming a small single family home—and creating options for income, children, work, and retirement…

We love this project so much because of the way the family has used it to make their lives better. In living near each other, Mona and her family can help each other with anything. They also get to spend plenty of time together while saving money on housing and enjoying a beautiful, walkable neighborhood. Here’s what Mona’s design/build team created.