Guello Construction
Custom Hill Country home in cream limestone and dark standing-seam metal, windows glowing at dusk under live oaks

Custom Homes

Custom Home Builder in Austin, TX

You have been building this house in your head for years. The porch where the evening light lands. The kitchen that holds the whole family at once. The view you promised yourself you would earn. When it is finally time, the last thing that house deserves is a production builder pushing your framing through a rainstorm to hit a quarterly number. We build a few homes at a time, with the owner on your site for all of it, built the way you would build it yourself if you had spent decades learning how. This is the house your grandkids will visit. We act like it.

01The Scope

How we build a custom home

We come in as early as you will have us. Before you close on a lot, we will walk it with you and talk soil, slope, trees, and utilities, because the cheapest problems are the ones you never buy. From there: architect and engineer coordination, transparent line-item budgeting, and a fixed contract before ground breaks.

Construction is the part we are known for. Foundations poured on properly compacted and tested soil, frames checked square and plumb before anything gets covered, flashing and waterproofing details done the careful way, and the mechanical, electrical, and plumbing systems laid out to be serviced, not just to pass inspection. You are invited to every walkthrough, at every stage, and nothing gets closed up before you have seen it.

Teardown-rebuilds on established Austin lots are a specialty. You keep the street and the trees; we replace a tired structure with a home built for the next fifty years.

Modern custom home with white limestone walls and dark standing-seam metal roof in the Austin hill country
Completed custom home at dusk, warm interior light against a deep blue hill country sky

02Timeline

A custom home typically runs 10 to 16 months from breaking ground, plus design and permitting before that. We only take on what we can supervise personally, so we will be honest about when we can start.

03Typical Investment

Site, size, and finish level set a custom home budget. We build to a transparent line-item contract, so you see every cost before ground breaks and approve every change in writing after.

Every estimate is written for your exact house and scope, free, after a walkthrough. No pricing games.

04Free Estimate

Start with a walkthrough.

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