The Eyberg property outside Oakalla sits on Lampasas River bottomland with the kind of views that tell you exactly where the house should face. We built the original home in the early 2000s after the family was referred to us through architects in the Houston area — they’d been having trouble finding a builder willing to work on private acreage out in the country. We were glad to go.
The clients are artists in the truest sense. As we were building the original house, she inlaid a mosaic eagle into the masonry wall in the kitchen — her hands in the work, not just her name on the contract. That kind of participation changes a project. It becomes theirs in a different way.
When they called us back in 2021 for a pool and studio addition, we were in the middle of COVID. Materials were running hot, labor was hard to fill, and schedules slipped everywhere. We pushed through it, and the studio got built. She put another mosaic above the studio door to mark it — same idea, second chapter.
What holds this property together across twenty years and two build phases is the land itself. Lampasas River views, good trees, room to breathe. Our job was to build structures that worked with all of that instead of against it. That’s what we try to do everywhere — read what the lot gives you and build toward it, whether it’s a river view, a particular tree, or a slope that wants to shape a floor plan.
The Eyberg family gets it. And they’ve become one of the relationships we’re proudest of in this business.
