CG&S Design-Build

Some homes move from rendering to reality with relative ease. This one had to be carefully built into the land.

Perched above the Blanco River, The Lighthouse rises from a steep bluff with concrete columns, steel beams, and cantilevered framing extending toward the valley below.

Inspired in part by Virginia Woolf’s “To the Lighthouse” and Le Corbusier’s chapel at Ronchamp, the design turns a difficult site into something luminous: steel, glass, rough-hewn wood, and long views shaped by the river valley.

A rendering can show the vision. The build is where that vision has to hold.

Some homes carry a lifetime.

For most of her life, Mattie Freeman’s East Austin home has held family, memory, and the daily rhythms of a place she knows by heart. She lives there with her son Derek and her puppy Sassy, in a home that has long been a place of gathering.

Before losing her sight, Mattie loved cooking for family and friends. She also cooked professionally for AISD, making the kitchen an especially meaningful part of this next chapter.

Nominated by Interfaith Action of Central Texas through the Austin American-Statesman’s Season for Caring program, Mattie’s home is now part of a community effort shaped around care, access, and dignity.

CG&S Design-Build is honored to help create a kitchen and bathroom that will be easier for her to navigate, while making the home safer and better suited to the life inside it.

This is our sixth Season for Caring family, and the work continues to feel close to who we are: helping homes support the people who live in them.

More to come as this project takes shape!

Your clients are already asking renovation questions. We’re here to help you answer them.

Today, we joined a group of local realtors for a practical conversation about helping clients better understand a home’s renovation potential.

Grounded in real Austin projects, the discussion focused on what’s possible, where complexity can hide, and how early guidance can make decisions clearer.

These are the conversations we value most: sharing what we know with the people helping clients make informed decisions about their homes.

The finished home is only one measure of a project.

Just as meaningful is the experience behind it: the communication, the care, the collaboration, and the many details carried from first meeting to final walkthrough.

A few reflections from the people who know these spaces best.