What Santa Ana Homeowners Say About Ellery ADU Studio Santa Ana
We’ve been designing, permitting, and building ADUs in Santa Ana since 2015, and the feedback we value most comes from homeowners who’ve lived through the process start to finish. Every review we share here reflects a real project: a specific address, a specific challenge, and a specific outcome documented in our photo records. These aren’t polished marketing stories. They’re what people actually say when they call back after final inspection.
Recent Reviews
“Our garage conversion in Washington Square had a 4-inch slab that most contractors wanted to tear out and repour. Nadia’s team measured the load path, showed us the photo record of the rebar scan, and saved us eleven thousand dollars on the foundation line item. The written price at signing was the price at final inspection. That almost never happens in this city.”
- Alma H., Washington Square, Santa Ana
“We got three estimates for a detached ADU in the Madison Park neighborhood. Two were verbal, one was a text message with a single number. Ellery delivered a fourteen-page scope with every line item priced, including the Edison tie-in and the sewer lateral offset we didn’t know we had. Under Clause 5, nothing moved. When the inspector flagged a setback variance on the north property line, they handled the revision in ten days without a change order.”
- Craig P., Madison Park, Santa Ana
“My mother needed a JADU for the front bedroom of our Floral Park bungalow. The historic overlay made permitting a nightmare, and two other firms dropped us after eight months. Nadia was direct: she said the permit would take exactly as long as it takes, and anyone who told us otherwise was selling something. Fourteen months later we had keys in hand, every visit documented with photos, and my mother moved in before the rainy season.”
- Yolanda M., Floral Park, Santa Ana
“We specified an Abodu One for the back corner of our lot near Santiago Park. Ellery coordinated the crane set, the foundation prep, and the utility trenching under one contract. I didn’t have to chase the prefab company for delivery dates or the concrete crew for cure times. The photo record showed up in my inbox after every visit: here’s what we found, here’s what we did. No summaries, no feelings, just evidence.”
- Sanjay S., Santiago Park, Santa Ana
“After a bad experience with a general contractor who doubled our kitchen remodel price mid-project, we were paranoid about the garage conversion. Nadia’s written price under Haven Standard Clause 1 included language I hadn’t seen before: ‘No scope creep. No door-side upsells. No verbal amendments.’ When we wanted to upgrade the mini-split from a single-zone to a dual-zone after signing, they wrote a separate addendum with its own price and its own signature line. Clean.”
- Alma H., Washington Square, Santa Ana
“The 365-Day Done Right Promise sounded like standard warranty language until we needed it. Six months after final inspection, we noticed a hairline crack in the stucco where the new ADU met the existing garage wall. One call, no voicemail queue, a live person who scheduled a crew. They opened the wall, found the tie-in detail had been missed by the original stucco sub, and fixed it over a weekend. The photo record from the repair went into the same folder as the original build. That’s not a promise. That’s a system.”
- Craig P., Madison Park, Santa Ana
Why Customers Trust Us
Every testimonial above traces back to the same five commitments we’ve made since 2015. Written price before work starts, per Haven Standard Clause 1. Documented photo record on every visit. Background-checked, uniformed crews. One contract covering design, permitting, and build so no one can deflect responsibility. And the 365-Day Done Right Promise, backed in writing before your project begins.
We’ve designed, permitted, and built over 900 ADUs. Not one started without a written price. Not one finished without a photo record. Not one caller reached a voicemail queue, our live person answers calls 24/7. If you have a written estimate from another firm, we’ll give you a Free Second Opinion and show you exactly what’s included, what’s missing, and what Santa Ana’s specific code requirements mean for your line items.
Call (949) 541-8498 to schedule your free estimate. Nadia Ellery or a member of our team will walk your property, explain the permitting landscape for your specific Santa Ana neighborhood, and deliver a written scope with real numbers you can compare.
Written by Nadia Ellery, Owner at Ellery ADU Studio Santa Ana, serving Santa Ana since 2015.