Materials and selections
Finishes chosen together and specified before the first wall comes down.
About Nova ADUs
Backyard homes for the Sacramento Valley.
Our Story
Nova ADUs Building Co. is a family trade. The people who run it grew up on job sites, and between them the team carries over 45 years of construction experience — framing, finishing, and running work through inspection long before any of it carried this name.
The company exists because of something that kept happening: homeowners trying to assemble a backyard home out of three firms who had never worked together, and paying for every gap between them. So all four disciplines sit under one roof here — feasibility, design, permitting and construction — and the people who checked your lot are the people who hand you the keys.
Alex & Yulian · Founders
What drives us
Built for today, crafted for generations.
Our mission
Our mission is to create exceptional, thoughtfully designed homes that give families more than additional space. Whether it’s a home for parents, a place for your children to grow into, or an investment you’ll one day pass down, we build every ADU with the future in mind. What we build today should serve your family for generations.
Our vision
Placeholder copy. That adding a home to an existing lot becomes an ordinary decision rather than a daunting one, and that the Sacramento Valley gets denser without getting worse to live in.
How we work
Four phases, in order, with the same team throughout.
Nothing is subcontracted to another firm and nothing is handed off. The people who checked your lot are the people who hand you the keys.
See the four phases
On-site execution
One team on site from demolition to punch list, carrying the drawings through.
Custom finishes
Tile, stone and millwork detailed so the joints still line up years later.
Why Nova ADUs
One team from the first sketch to the final walkthrough.
Most ADU projects fail on the handoffs — a designer who does not price, a permit expediter who does not build, a contractor who inherits drawings nobody can construct. We do all four, so there is nothing to hand off.
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Design, permits and build in-house
Four disciplines, one contract, one point of contact. Nothing is handed between firms, so nothing is lost between them.
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Feasibility before floor plans
We tell you what your lot allows before anyone draws anything — including when the answer is that it does not work.
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A scope you can actually price
Selections decided and written down before construction, so the number you agreed to is the number you pay.
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Built for the Sacramento Valley
Slope, trees, rain and nine different jurisdictions reading the same code differently. We build here, and only here.
Start a project
Let’s build an ADU.
Send us your address and a rough idea of the ADU you want. We’ll come back with what your lot allows, what it is likely to cost, and how long it takes.