Studio Home launches customizable Laurel ADU for backyard housing
Studio Home’s Laurel gives buyers four exterior styles and three sizes, making a prefab ADU easier to match to a backyard, a zoning cap or a second-home use.
Four exterior styles and three footprint sizes are doing the heavy lifting in Studio Home’s new Laurel ADU. The Louisville, Colorado builder kept the floor plan standardized, but gave backyard-home buyers a way to match neighborhood character, lot limits and use case without turning the project into a full custom build.
The Laurel is a one-bedroom, one-bathroom accessory dwelling unit offered in 618, 650 and 682 square feet. Buyers can choose Traditional, Modern, Farmhouse or Craftsman exteriors, with the interior platform held steady so the building system stays efficient. Studio Home is also letting homeowners personalize the Laurel online with exterior colors, siding materials, layouts and finish options. For a tight lot or a simple guest suite, the 618-square-foot version looks like the cleanest fit; the 650 and 682-square-foot versions give more breathing room for multigenerational living or a rental setup, especially with options like a pantry or an extra hallway.
The company is leaning hard on design-for-manufacturing to make that flexibility workable. Studio Home says the Laurel uses a consolidated mechanical, electrical and plumbing core to improve quality control and shorten timelines, while panelized prefab delivery cuts down onsite construction compared with a stick-built approach. That matters in the ADU market, where homeowners are often trying to balance speed, cost and the headache of local permitting. Studio Home is pairing the model with pre-engineered plan sets, local permitting guidance and a vetted general-contractor network, which should help buyers move from concept to construction without having to stitch together every part of the process themselves.
The launch also marks a milestone for a company that has been building in this space for a long time. Studio Home said the Laurel is its first product launch after its national franchise expansion, and the company dates back to 2008, with more than 6,500 projects completed across the U.S. Jeremy Nova, Studio Home’s co-founder and creative director, framed the new model as the result of nearly two decades of learning what homeowners want from detached backyard living spaces. The company rebranded from Studio Shed to StudioHOME in March 2025, then announced its franchise model in May 2026 as a way to scale from backyard ADUs and lifestyle studios into multi-unit and developer-led work.
That is what makes the Laurel more interesting than a simple product refresh. Studio Home is not just selling a small house in four looks; it is trying to make a standardized backyard ADU feel easier to place, easier to permit and easier to tailor to the job a homeowner actually needs done.
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