ADU Rendering · Pasadena, CA

Show the ADU before the first permit set.

ADU clients need to see it to permit it — a backyard box on paper convinces nobody, including the city. The render is often the approval tool: rafter tails, beam brackets, and period joinery drawn to survive a review board that knows the difference between Craftsman and 'craftsman-style'.

On the ground

An ADU behind a Craftsman is a deference exercise: matched siding, a roof pitch that echoes the main house, windows patterned like the era — and all of it under the height limit and out of the neighbor's sightline. The render carries the hearing: scale shown honestly from the street and the adjacent yard, materials named, landscape edge drawn real. Garage conversions along the arroyo keep their driveway rhythm; the render proves the new entry reads domestic without pretending the garage never existed. Interiors render compact but period-warm — oak floors, painted wainscot, a kitchenette that doesn't argue with the main house. For multigenerational briefs common here, the render's job is simpler and heavier: show the parents' cottage as a home anyone would be glad to live in.

From the render farm

Detached unit massing with pool court, western red cedar
Detached unit massing with pool court, western red cedar
Compact suite interior — roman clay walls, unlacquered brass
Compact suite interior — roman clay walls, unlacquered brass
Walnut slat feature wall doing double duty as acoustic control
Walnut slat feature wall doing double duty as acoustic control

The Single Room

3 photorealistic renders · materials matched to your spec sheet · 2 revisions

Delivery date committed at order — your client meeting is the deadline.

$399flat fee

3% render credit — every confirmed partner purchase, applied to your render invoice.

Direct supplier deal — paid to you by the supplier. We never touch it.

Straight answers.

Can you render an ADU from a site plan and floor plan?

Yes — that's the standard package. We massing-check against your setbacks and height limit, then render the unit in its true yard context from a photo you send.

Do renders help with neighbor or city pushback?

A believable render de-escalates: it shows scale, materials, and privacy honestly. Several clients credit the render for smoothing hearings that plan sets alone were losing.

Garage conversion vs new build — do you do both?

Both. Conversions hinge on making a garage read as a home — window pattern, entry, landscape edge — which is exactly what a render proves.

Do you render the typical Pasadena housing stock?

The render is often the approval tool: rafter tails, beam brackets, and period joinery drawn to survive a review board that knows the difference between Craftsman and 'craftsman-style'. That's the standard we hold every Pasadena adu rendering to.

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