Multi-room renovations, reconfigurations, and additions — planned in phases so the house stays livable while the work moves through it.
Get a Free EstimateA lot of what we work on around Kerrville was built between the 1970s and the 1990s, and those houses share a fairly consistent set of complaints: compartmentalized floor plans, a kitchen walled off from everything else, small primary bathrooms, popcorn ceilings, and dated oak trim throughout. They're generally well-built houses with layouts that no longer match how people live.
That's good news for remodeling. The bones are usually sound, which means the money goes into changes you actually notice rather than into fixing structural problems.
The single most transformative change in these houses is usually removing one or two walls to connect the kitchen, dining, and living areas. Whether that's straightforward depends entirely on whether the wall carries load. If it does, it needs a properly sized beam and a load path carried down to the foundation — done right, you'd never know the wall was there; done wrong, you get sagging ceilings and sticking doors. We work this out before we quote it, not after demo.
Adding square footage is the most involved thing we do. It touches foundation, framing, roof tie-in, mechanical, and permitting, and the roof connection in particular is where quality shows — a bad tie-in leaks and looks bolted-on. Expect a longer planning stage before any work starts.
Most homeowners can't move out for the duration, so we sequence work to keep a functioning kitchen and at least one bathroom available at all times, contain dust to the active area, and get the noisy demolition done in concentrated stretches rather than spread across months.
A note on foundations: much of this region sits on limestone and shallow, rocky soil, which is generally stable — but seasonal moisture swings still move slabs, and older pier-and-beam homes in the area can develop sag. If you're seeing cracked drywall corners, doors that stick seasonally, or sloped floors, say so early. It changes what's worth doing and in what order — there's no sense installing new tile over a floor that's still moving.
We go room by room and separate what you want from what the house needs. Sometimes those are the same list; often they're not, and it's better to know before budgeting.
You get the scope broken into line items, so you can see what each piece costs and make real decisions about what stays in and what waits for a later phase.
Cabinets, tile, flooring, fixtures, and windows all have lead times. Choosing early is what keeps a schedule honest — most delays on big projects trace back to a decision that hadn't been made yet.
Work proceeds room by room or zone by zone with dust containment between. You always know what's happening this week and what's next.
We walk it together, you list everything that isn't right, and those get resolved before the project is called done.
Doing related work together is almost always cheaper per square foot — you're paying to mobilize, contain, and finish once instead of three times. But there's nothing wrong with phasing if that's what the budget allows. The thing to avoid is phasing in an order that forces you to undo finished work later, like tiling a floor this year and moving a wall through it next year. If you tell us the long-term plan up front, we'll sequence the phases so nothing gets torn out twice.
Usually yes, and most of our clients do. It's less comfortable than moving out, and you should expect noise, dust, and stretches where a room is unusable. What we commit to is keeping a working kitchen and bathroom available and telling you in advance which weeks will be worst.
On older homes it happens — old water damage, wiring that was never right, framing that was modified by a previous owner. Our approach is to stop, show you what's there, explain the options and what each costs, and get your decision before proceeding. You won't find out about it on the final invoice.
Yes — we regularly work across Kerr County and the surrounding Hill Country, including Ingram, Hunt, Comfort, Center Point, and Mountain Home, with larger projects taking us further toward Fredericksburg, Boerne, and Bandera. See service areas for the full picture, or just call and ask about your address.
Whole-home projects start with a conversation about what you want the house to be. Call and we'll come walk it with you — no charge, no obligation.