Palacios, Texas

Palacios sits right on Tres Palacios Bay, and building here means building for the water. Salt air, steady south wind off the bay, and hurricane season all get a vote in how a house goes together, so we spec corrosion-resistant fasteners and hardware, hot-dip galvanized connectors, impact-rated or shuttered glass, and roofing rated for the wind zone this stretch of coast falls into.

The look most folks want here is coastal and unfussy — raised or slab-on-grade cottages with deep porches, metal roofs, cementitious or fiber-cement siding that shrugs off humidity, and a screened porch facing the water where you can actually sit in the evening. We also build a lot of weekend and retirement homes for families who keep a boat at the harbor.

Whether you are building a new place off Main Street, adding a guest suite for the grandkids, or putting up a barndominium with a boat bay on acreage outside town, we handle the permitting, the elevation questions, and the wind-zone details so the house holds up long after the build is done.