Where we work
6 cities, 6 different problems
The method and the prices are the same everywhere we work. What changes is what is behind the walls and who has to approve the plans, and both change more across this metro than people expect.
Cities with a page of their own
A city gets a page here only when there is something true to say about it that is not true of the metro generally. If we could not find that, we did not write the page.
Dallas
Dozens of separate districts, each with its own rules: landmark districts with their own ordinances and design criteria, and conservation districts that are a different thing entirely.
Fort Worth
Two very different building stocks in one city: pre-war bungalows on pier and beam near the south side, and slab-on-grade construction everywhere the city grew after the nineties.
Plano
A city built almost entirely between the late seventies and the late nineties, which puts a great deal of its housing inside one specific and consequential plumbing window.
Frisco
The newest housing stock of any large city in the country, with a median year built of 2009, which changes what a remodel here is actually for.
McKinney
A historic downtown with a review process unlike anywhere else in the metro: staff-reviewed in days rather than heard by a commission once a month, and triggered only by what the street can see.
Flower Mound
Large late-nineties houses on large lots, with a higher share of four and five bedroom homes than almost anywhere in the country, arranged to a floor plan most households have outgrown in a different direction.
We also work here
These are places we take work without having written a page about them yet. The prices and the process are identical. If your city is on this list, the nearest page above will still be the closest thing to your situation.
- Arlington
- Irving
- Southlake
- Colleyville
- Grapevine
- Highland Park
- University Park
- Coppell
- Allen
- Richardson
The fear is not the price. It is being left mid-build.
These four commitments are in the contract rather than on a badge, and they do not change from one city to the next.
A fixed written price
The number we sign is the number you pay. It moves only through a written change order you approve before any work starts.
A named project manager with a cell number
One person owns your project from demolition to final walkthrough. You get their mobile number on day one, and they answer it.
A written update every Friday
Photos, what happened this week, what happens next, and whether we are on schedule, in your inbox before the weekend either way.
Broom-clean every evening
Floor protection down every morning, tools packed out and floors swept every night. You are living here while we work, and we work like it.