Home Remodeling in Boerne, TX

We've been working in Boerne long enough to have a portfolio here rather than a claim. A large ipe deck with built-in bench seating, steel-lined planter boxes and cable railing. A built-in library wall. Composite deck work out in Cordillera Ranch. Sixteen of those photos are in our gallery, and most of the project cards carry the cost band the job landed in, because the first thing most Boerne homeowners want to know is whether we're even in the same neighborhood on budget.

Boerne reads as a historic German Hill Country town, and that core is real: the Main Street historic district runs just over a mile with more than 150 properties in it. But the actual remodeling work here mostly happens somewhere else. The median Boerne house was built in 2006, and roughly two out of three were built in 2000 or later. What that means day to day is that we spend far more time on twenty-year-old semi-custom homes hitting their first serious kitchen, bath and outdoor-living cycle, and on newer houses where the owners are ready to pull out builder-grade cabinets and put in something built for the room, than we do restoring 1890s limestone cottages. We do both. We're just honest about which one is the bigger part of Boerne.

The other thing that separates a Boerne job from a San Antonio one is what's under it. Boerne sits on Glen Rose limestone, and it's a karst formation, so deck piers, fence post holes and utility trenches are a rock problem, not a dirt problem. The expansive-clay foundation talk that dominates a Bexar County estimate mostly doesn't apply out here, and a contractor who quotes your Boerne fence off a San Antonio post-hole number is going to be unhappy on day two. We price the rock up front.

Boerne is about a 40-minute run from our shop in Converse on the northeast side of San Antonio. Close enough that a cabinet we glue up on Monday can be hanging on a Boerne wall by the end of the week.