Built once,
and built to stay.
A custom home is the longest relationship you'll have with a contractor, so it's worth knowing how one thinks. We start with the site and the structure — soil, drainage, load path, orientation — and let the plan answer to those, rather than drawing something handsome and finding out later what it costs to hold up.
Custom Homes · Fort Worth & DFW Metroplex
What the work covers
Site and foundation
Soil report, drainage, and a foundation engineered for the lot. In North Texas clay this is the decision that quietly determines whether the house cracks.
Plan and structure together
Architectural intent checked against the load path as it's drawn, so the beam that makes the great room work is in the budget from the start.
Transparent allowances
Selections carry real numbers rather than placeholders chosen to make an early total look attractive.
One contractor throughout
The same company that priced it builds it, and the same person you met is the one answering the phone in month seven.
Work of this kind.
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Questions
The things
people ask.
- Do you build on my lot or yours?
- Either. If you're still looking, we'd rather be involved before you buy — what a lot costs to build on varies more than what it costs to buy.
- Do you work with my architect?
- Yes, and it goes better when we're in the room early. Bringing the builder in during design is how you avoid drawings that have to be redone once someone prices them.
- How do you handle changes mid-build?
- In writing, priced before the work happens. Changes are normal on a custom home; unpriced changes are how a build ends in an argument.
Know the number before you call.
Describe the property, add a few photos, and get a preliminary range broken out by trade — in about a minute.