The 5 step process toCreate your own Home Studio Step 1: Consultation The first step to owning your own Home Studio starts by contacting us. We come to your property, evaluate the site, and discuss your future Home Studio in regards to your needs. Every Home Studio is designed with the
HURRY! You only have 1 more year to save big on building an ADU The City of Portland has been pushing urban density instead of urban sprawl. Instead of taking over the farms, forests, and wildness that we Oregonians love, our city is going
Here at SQFT Studios, we deal with a lot of electrical questions. When building an accessory structure, whether a Home Studio or ADU, the new accessory structure needs to have power. This can happen a couple of ways. Below we'll map out a few options with some considerations to
Garage Conversions in Portland Three Options - Challenges and Opportunities Many of our potential clients call us about converting their garage into an awesome new guest house, works space, apartment, or ADU, and this makes sense! Garages are becoming less essential in our daily lives, and with the
Plan, Design, Build. What it means and how it's different. SQFT Studios is a Design Build firm. In the language of the building industry, that means we are a bit different from the standard practice, and working with us is a different experience for a homeowner. Standard
Baby, it's cold outside, and the snow is coming down - it's the semi-annual snowpocalypse! We at SQFT Studios hope you are tucked in with your families enjoying the winter weather, whether you are sitting by a nice wood fire, or your high efficiency gas furnace is pumping warm
Fire Rated Construction, Unvented Roofs, and YouWhen where and how to FireproofEveryone wants to make the most out of their property, and rightly so. Maximizing your open space is one great method, and pushing any buildings (especially accessory structures) as close to your property line is one way to increase the open
Let's look at the different types of rental options and their specific payback periods or ROIs. Short-Term Rental (STR): is defined by the City of Portland in the Type A Accessory Short-Term Rental web page for a 1 or 2 dwelling structure (a typical Portland home) as a 30
If you are considering building an accessory building to rent for short or long-term rental, this post is for you. In Part I (what you are reading now) I'll describe the Accessory Dwelling Unit (ADU) and the conditions I will use to determine the Return on
Every homeowner knows they own a piece of land. Nearly everyone assumes that the boundaries are clear and that their fences, buildings, and other landscape elements denote property lines. It turns out, this is far less common than we assume. In reality, our property lines are often confused, out
SQFT Studios is a residential design-build firm. We create ADUs, Guest Suites, Home Studios, and full-sized homes in Portland, Oregon. Our custom and prefabricated designs use high-quality construction methods while delivering exceptional value.
SQFT Studios is a residential design-build firm. We create ADUs, Guest Suites, Home Studios, and full-sized homes in Portland, Oregon. Our custom and prefabricated designs use high-quality construction methods while delivering exceptional value.
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