Areas We Serve
West U is its own city, with its own building department and some of the most closely managed jobsites in Houston. Lot coverage, setbacks, and site rules settle what is possible long before anyone draws it.
West U is small, dense, and almost entirely rebuilt. The 1920s and '30s cottages the neighborhood started with have largely given way to two- and three-story houses that fill their lots out to the line the city allows. What remains of the original stock is either carefully kept or waiting its turn.
Which makes the first conversation here a numbers conversation: how much house the lot permits, and whether the one standing on it is worth adding to.
West University Place is not part of Houston. It has its own building department, its own inspectors, and its own rules, and it has a reputation among builders for enforcing them. Contractor registration, working hours, parking, where the dumpster sits, how debris is handled, and what the site looks like at the end of the day are all things the city and your neighbors will notice.
None of that is a problem when it is planned for. It becomes one when a crew arrives and works the way it would anywhere else in Houston.
Setbacks, lot coverage, and height limits in West U leave less room than most owners expect. Two houses on the same street can support very different additions depending on how each one sits, what has already been built, and where the easements run.
We work that math before design, not after. The most expensive drawing set is the one for a house the lot was never going to allow. Establishing the envelope first is what turns a wish list into a plan with a price on it.
What We Do Here
Second-story and rear additions worked out against lot coverage and setbacks before design begins.
Full renovations of the houses worth keeping — structure, systems, and plan rebuilt together.
Kitchens rebuilt as the center of the house, including the structural work that usually takes.
Primary suites and secondary baths, waterproofed properly for the Gulf Coast climate.
Ground-up builds permitted through West U, designed to use every foot the lot actually allows.
Recent projects across West University, Bellaire, the Heights, and the rest of the inner loop.
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How It Works
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We establish what West U will allow on your specific lot, then register and plan the site the way the city expects — before drawings, so the budget is built on the real project.
02
A written scope, a line-item estimate, and a realistic schedule. Matt is on site rather than behind a desk, with the same small group of vetted subs on every job.
03
Through West U's inspections and into a final walkthrough — punch list closed out before we call it finished.
West University Place, TX · Veteran-Owned · Est. 2020