Permit drafting studio · Brooklyn, NY
permit-ready plan sets for the small house in your backyard.
You’ve paced out the yard. You’ve priced the build. Now get the drawings that move the permit: a full CAD set — site plan, floor plan, elevations, section, code sheet — drafted to your town’s rules and billed once, per project. Garage conversions, backyard ADUs, cottage remodels. Let’s get yours on paper.
Before you dial
Permits stall on doubt, not drawings. Clear these up now and walk into your first call ready to move.
Yes — and that’s most of our work. You send the lot; we pull your jurisdiction’s zoning and adopted building code — setbacks, height caps, lot coverage, ADU size limits, parking rules — and draft straight to them.
The studio sits in Brooklyn, NY. Your backyard can be anywhere in the U.S.
Missing the survey? Start anyway. We’ll tell you on the first call whether your town actually needs one.
We produce the drafted set. If your jurisdiction wants an architect’s or engineer’s stamp — common for structural on new detached units — we format the sheets for your stamping professional and coordinate with them directly.
Plenty of garage conversions and cottage remodels need no stamp at all. You’ll know which camp you’re in before we draw a line.
Your first full draft lands in 10 business days from a complete lot packet. Revisions turn in 3–4 business days. Move quickly on your markups and you can hold a submission-ready PDF inside three weeks.
It happens, and it’s fixable. Your first round of reviewer corrections is already in the price: we read the comments, revise the sheets, and write a response letter you can upload with the resubmittal.
Any round after that is $240.
In Ovid, Baucis and Philemon keep a one-room cottage so well that the gods turn it into a temple. A small house, done right, built to stand. That’s the whole brief on every sheet we draw.
How a set gets made
You bring the yard and the idea. We bring the code research, the CAD, and the patience for reviewer comments. Here’s exactly what happens after you call.
Start with a 20-minute callTwenty minutes on the phone. Tell us what you want to build; we tell you which sheets your town will ask for and quote the set flat — before any drafting starts.
Survey, photos, measurements. Our measuring guide turns your tape-measure session into an afternoon, not a weekend. Builders: send your field notes and we’ll take it from there.
Setbacks, height caps, fire separation, egress windows, parking waivers. All of it lands on a code-summary sheet your reviewer can check in minutes instead of hunting through notes.
Ten business days in, a full PDF set hits your inbox. Mark up anything — slide the bath, swap the window, widen the deck. Your markups come back revised in 3–4 business days.
Final PDFs sized to your department’s sheet rules, plus DWG files for your builder. Comments come back from plan check? Round one of corrections is on us.
Sheet by sheet
A plan set isn’t one drawing. It’s an argument your reviewer reads in order — and every sheet answers a question before they can ask it.
A-0.1 · Site plan
This is the sheet zoning reads first, so we make it bulletproof. Property lines, setbacks dimensioned to the inch, the existing house, the new footprint, utility runs, trees, and the path from the street to your new front door.
Walls dimensioned to centerline and finish, door swings drawn, egress windows called out with clear-opening sizes, smoke and CO detectors located. Room labels and square footages your appraiser will thank you for, too.
Four elevations and a building section with roof pitch, plate height, and your zoning height cap drawn as a hard line across the top — so the reviewer sees compliance instantly and your framer builds straight off the page.
Pick your side of the table
Homeowners
You’ve never filed a permit and you don’t want to learn zoning law this month. Good — you shouldn’t have to. You get a drafter who walks you through every sheet.
Builders & contractors
You know the build cold; the paperwork is what slows you down. Hand us the drafting and keep your crew on site instead of at a desk.
Pick your set
One price per project, quoted on your first call and locked once your lot packet is in. No hourly meter running while we read your code.
Garage → living space
Turning an attached or detached garage into a studio, office, or rental unit.
New detached unit
A new cottage behind the main house, up to 1,200 sq ft — the full set your town needs for a new building.
Existing small house
Reworking a cottage you already own: additions, dormers, interior reconfigurations. Priced from your scope on the first call.
Invoiced per project: half to start drafting, half when your final set is delivered. Pay by card or bank transfer.
The drafting desk picks up Wed–Sun