A few of the homes I’ve helped bring together on Lake Texoma.
Real homes for real people — from warm and traditional to high-contrast and modern — each one built around the materials its owners fell for. Here are a few of my favorites.
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The work
Everything you’ll see here started as someone else’s idea — a folder of saved photos, a slab they couldn’t stop thinking about, a feeling they couldn’t quite put into words. My part was to take those loose pieces and turn them into a whole home, where the colors, materials, and textures move together instead of competing. None of these are staged show rooms. They’re real homes, for real people, built around the things they loved.
The range is wide on purpose. You’ll find warm, traditional homes a page away from ultra-modern, high-contrast ones, because morphing into each person’s style — even when it’s nothing like my own — is my
favorite part of this job. My own taste runs eclectic and full of color; most of these homes are not that, and getting them exactly right for the people who live in them means far more to me than doing what I’d do for myself.
You’ll notice a pattern if you look for it: most of these homes were built outward from a single anchor — usually a countertop the owners loved on sight — with everything chosen to flow around it, the way I start most homes with the countertop. That’s how a house full of separate decisions ends up feeling like one thing. Step into a few of them below.
Morphing into each person’s style — even when it’s nothing like my own — is my favorite part of this job.
Grandiose Lakehouse
This one began at the slab yard, with a piece of Taj Mahal quartzite the owners fell for the moment they saw it. We committed to it that day and built the whole home outward from it — a warm, mostly neutral palette of browns and cream, with one darker, swankier moment at the bar. It’s a big home made for gathering, but step inside and it reads cozy rather than cavernous.
My favorite part might be the outdoor living space: a huge screened porch with a full kitchen and a fireplace, the kind of room you settle into and never quite leave.
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Stone Retreat by the Lake
A fundamentally modern home that I softened with warm colors and finishes, then punctuated with a few deliberate pops of color to match a couple with real energy. The showpiece is a fireplace wrapped in shiny black geometric tile — something I’d never done before this house, and one of those risks that paid off the second it went up.
There’s a spa-like primary bath the owners had their hearts set on, and a guest shower in a green tile I loved so much I later put it in my own home. They still swing by and call, which tells you what kind of project it was.
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The most modern home I’ve designed on the lake, and an unusual one for the area. The owners went back and forth on how far to push it, and together we decided to cannonball rather than dip a toe — a high-contrast palette of blacks, grays, whites, and creams, kept spare on purpose so the furniture, the light, and the art could become the statement.
It has two full stories of windows and thick black frames, so I took the floors several shades darker than we’d first planned — enough to ground all that light, keep it from bouncing around, and tie the black framing together. From the road it stops you, and for once the inside and the outside make complete sense together.
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Let’s talk about your home
These are a few of the homes I’ve been part of — there are many more, and I’m adding them here as we photograph them. If you’re planning a custom home on Lake Texoma, I’d love to hear what you have in mind. There’s no pressure at all, just a conversation about your home and how I can help you get it right.
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