Winner of 17 professional design awards, including six Gold Nugget Awards and NAIOP's Multi-Family Residential Development of the Year. Tony designs for how people actually live, and built the Build Ready library: more than 100 pre-designed, site-built ADU plans that take the guesswork out of adding a home to your property.
Tony leads architecture and design at Acton ADU. His work has earned 17 professional design awards, including six Gold Nugget Awards, the honor given to the best residential design in the West, seven Tribute Awards from the New Home Council, three NAHB Best Design Awards, and NAIOP's 2018 Multi-Family Residential Development of the Year. The awards are a byproduct of something simpler: he starts every plan by asking how the people inside will use the space at year one and at year fifteen, and designs for that. Light-filled layouts, smart storage, privacy-minded floor plans, and charm that comes from a space that fits a life rather than from decoration.
His biggest contribution to Acton ADU is the Build Ready library, a catalog of more than 100 pre-designed ADU plans, each named after a California tree. Instead of asking every homeowner to start from a blank page, Tony and his team built each plan with complete drawings, renderings, elevations, engineering, and curated interior and exterior packages, ready to go to the city for permits. Flexible floorplans and those curated packages streamline the design phase, strip out architectural complexity, and save homeowners time and money without sacrificing quality. The library is organized into series built around real goals: Investor and Investor Plus for cost-efficient rentals, Signature for elevated detail, Aging-in-Place with step-free entries and wider clearances, Bonus for hosting, and Legacy Custom for homeowners who want more personalization without giving up Build Ready speed. Whatever the family needs, there is a plan that fits the multigenerational solution they are after.
Every Build Ready ADU is traditionally site-built to California residential standards under local permits and inspections, the same as a primary home, not a factory unit. That is the point of the library: predictable cost and schedule, fewer decisions to get wrong, and a finished home that holds its value. Tony writes about how the plans are designed, how to choose between them, and what good design does for a family over decades. He works at Acton ADU for the same reason the plans exist: he wants to help families stay together.
Read the full story of Acton ADU →Tony's team starts every project the same way: understanding your lot and what's feasible on it before anyone quotes a number. No surprises. Ever.
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