MNBE designs, permits, and builds ADUs, DADUs, and custom homes across Edmonds, one licensed team from first site visit to final inspection.
One licensed, bonded team for the whole job, from design and Edmonds Development Services permitting to fixed price construction.
Where a Bowl or waterfront view lot's land value justifies it, we replace an aging home with a ground up custom home, with feasibility run honestly first.
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Detached, attached, and basement ADUs, up to two per lot and 1,200 sq ft each under Edmonds' 2024 ADU code update.
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Drawings built to clear Edmonds Development Services the first time, bluff view lots and critical areas included.
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We design ADU submittals to land clean at Edmonds Development Services, anticipating the corrections their reviewers send back before we file. Since Edmonds eliminated the old conditional use permit in its 2024 code update, a clean first submittal on a straightforward lot moves through a ministerial style review quickly. Every submittal and every response is handled by us, never a third party expediter.
Edmonds drops from steep view bluffs to the waterfront and BNSF tracks, and the city maps an Earth Subsidence and Landslide Hazard Area through North Edmonds and Meadowdale that triggers real added review. We coordinate the geotechnical report early, design foundations and drainage to the slope, and run the critical area report and any Shoreline Master Program review near the Sound or Lake Ballinger in parallel with the building permit instead of letting it stall the project. On bluff sites that often means pin piles, retaining walls, and deeper engineered foundations planned from the start, not discovered mid build.
We've finished detached ADUs across the region, like our Redmond build, full framing, roofing, kitchen, siding, and HVAC, that passed every inspection. We bring the same crews and process to Edmonds. See the full project, and the homeowner's verified five star review, on the project page.
What We Build in Edmonds
A freestanding backyard cottage with its own entrance and address, the strongest rental performer. Edmonds allows detached ADUs up to 1,200 square feet, and where the rear lot line abuts a public alley no rear setback is required, which opens up tight near Bowl lots. Larger Seaview, Maplewood, and north end lots take one comfortably.
Connected to the main house by a shared wall or addition. Edmonds allows up to two ADUs per lot in any configuration with no owner occupancy requirement, and no parking is required for an ADU within a half mile of a major transit stop, so both units can be rented. Often the faster permit on a modest Westgate or Five Corners lot.
The 1920s through 1950s bungalows and mid century ramblers near downtown, and the split levels on the sloping view streets, sit on daylight and walkout basements that convert beautifully into legal dwellings with a separate entrance, full kitchen, and code compliant egress.
On many Edmonds lots, especially the view streets above the waterfront and through the Bowl, land value justifies replacing an aging home outright. We run that feasibility honestly, sometimes the right answer is a ground up custom home, not a remodel, and build it under the same license and fixed price contract.
FAQ
Answering the questions Edmonds homeowners ask us most about building an ADU.
Yes. Under Edmonds' 2024 ADU code update and Washington's HB 1337, most single family lots allow up to two ADUs in any configuration, two attached, two detached, or one of each, with no owner occupancy requirement. Detached units can reach 1,200 square feet and conversions of existing space are allowed. Bluff and landslide hazard lots still face critical area review.
Edmonds permits generally move faster and more predictably than Seattle SDCI, thanks to Development Services' smaller queue and the simplified, no conditional use permit ADU path adopted in 2024. The exception is bluff and landslide hazard lots, where geotechnical review, Earth Subsidence and Landslide Hazard Area submittals, and critical area or shoreline overlays add weeks to months. We confirm current timelines before promising dates.
We don't quote a generic per square foot number, because on Edmonds lots the real cost drivers are site specific, whether you're on a flat interior lot near Five Corners or a bluff site that needs pin piles, retaining walls, and a deeper engineered foundation. After a free site visit we give you a fixed price contract tied to your actual lot, soils, and slope, not a guess.
Thank you for considering MNBE for your Edmonds ADU or custom home. We respond within one business day, Monday through Saturday.
We design and build across Edmonds, from flat infill lots near Five Corners, Westgate, and Lake Ballinger to the steep view bluffs of North Edmonds and Meadowdale and the walkable streets of downtown and the Bowl. We handle the geotechnical, critical area, and shoreline coordination that the waterfront and slope lots demand, and the simpler path that a straightforward Seaview or Maplewood lot allows.