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Renovation, Architecture, Construction, & Interiors CG&S strives for perfection with every client, no matter the size or scope of the project.

CG&S Design-Build is a high-end Austin residential remodeling firm specializing in full-service design and construction services. Started as a family business 60 years ago, CG&S was founded on a culture of loyalty and dedication to hard work – delivering the highest quality product to our clients. Since then, CG&S has grown into a locally and nationally recognized design-build company with hundreds of projects under its belt, but we haven’t forgotten our homegrown roots. At their core, CG&S is a group of individuals who work collaboratively toward one sole purpose: making great homes. We design and build around you so you feel right, at home.

10/29/2026

These walls had been keeping secrets.

Built in the 1930s, before much of today’s Cherrywood neighborhood took shape, this French Place home revealed layers of old finishes and floral wallpaper hung over cheesecloth and wooden boards when our team opened its walls.

Then came a surprise beneath the kitchen: a forgotten water well, a relic of the days when homes in this part of East Austin relied on their own water supply.

Rather than lose the wallpaper to demolition, our project manager carefully salvaged the fragments. Today, they’re framed above the sofa in the finished living room.

10/27/2026

What if a whole-house remodel started with a closet? That was 100% the case in this Barton Creek home.

The homeowners needed more room for clothing, shoes, and accessories. Finding that space meant expanding the upstairs footprint by 125 square feet and rethinking the adjoining primary bath. That addition also changed the home’s exterior, introducing a new gable roof above the expanded suite.

The new closet delivered dedicated shoe storage, glass-front displays, and an island for packing. Next door, an arched opening leads into a shared tub and shower enclosure wrapped in glossy blue-green tile that shifts with the light.

The rest of the home got some love, too. Outside, painted brick, new windows, and a metal roof refreshed the facade. Upstairs, the young daughter’s bathroom received whimsical wallpaper, marble tile flooring, and shaded sconces while the lower level got a whole new look.

10/27/2026

10/22/2026

The finished space isn’t always the part people remember most.

Ask four homeowners what made a renovation worth it and you’ll get four different answers. Finding a beautiful solution when city requirements changed the plan. Finishing a whole-home renovation on time and on budget. Knowing the value of doing the work right. Or, after rebuilding a home around a new chapter of life, simply saying, “They fulfilled our dream.”

Different homes. Different projects. Different measures of a job well done.

The words that stick with us.

10/20/2026

How do you make a colorful house feel cohesive without making every room match?

That was the challenge in this Tarrytown renovation. The homeowners wanted a home that felt fun, personal, durable, and true to the mid-century character they already loved.

So our design team gave each room its own starting point. In the kitchen, the backsplash led to blue cabinetry, terrazzo flooring as a nod to the original house, and a pop of yellow at the drink center. In the primary bath, a blue glass mosaic the homeowner “went nuts” over set the palette while the surrounding finishes stayed quiet. In the secondary baths, colorful cabinetry and bold wallpaper gave each room its own personality.

Different palettes. One vision.

10/17/2026

Opening up this home meant closing one room off.

An underused powder room stood between the entry and the kitchen. Removing it opened a direct path between the two, while a former service window gave way to a wider opening connecting the kitchen and dining room. The office, meanwhile, was closed off from the living room to give the homeowners privacy while working from home.

The kitchen doubled in size, with rift-sawn white oak cabinetry and richly veined honed marble running from the island up the range wall beneath a sculpted plaster hood. A custom hutch with reeded glass now holds the homeowners’ heirloom dishes, easily accessible from the dining room. A deep green bar tucked into an arched niche, an addition from designer Lyndsey Gauthier, brings a little drama to the space.

Beyond the kitchen, architect Marsha Topham reclaimed 250 square feet from the former screened porch and deck, creating a larger living room with expansive windows overlooking the pool.

10/14/2026

A great 3D model doesn’t just showcase a finished space, it helps solve it.

For the River Place remodel, Justin Quick’s model gave our team a place to work through design needs and constraints before construction ever began. The team resized the oversized kitchen island, tested the relationship between the new kitchen and the existing brick arch, and reworked the former w**e vestibule into a bar that offered better flow.

Being able to test those proportions, view materials together, and turn the homeowners’ questions into real-time changes they could react to is what makes this process invaluable.

That mattered in a house where the goal was less about starting over and more about figuring out what should stay, what should change, and how the two could work together.

Created with Trimble SketchUp + Chaos Enscape

10/08/2026

Clarence Guerrero grew up in East Austin, learning carpentry by joining his father on job sites. In 1957, with his wife Stella, he started Clarence Guerrero & Sons. Clarence ran the jobs. Stella kept the books and the office moving. Their eight children grew up around the business, then eventually in it, learning the work from every side and helping shape what CG&S would become.

Clarence and Stella’s children would go on to lead the company in various stages of its evolution, carrying with them the work, traditions, and responsibilities they had grown up around. From the office to the job sites, generations of the Guerrero family helped shape the direction of CG&S and the standards the company was built around.

That feels inseparable from the Hispanic heritage we find ourselves celebrating this month. It shows up in a craft passed between generations, in the responsibility family felt for the quality of their work, and in the pride that came with building something together.

Hispanic Heritage Month gives us a chance to honor the culture at the foundation of CG&S and the Guerrero family who carried it through generations.

10/05/2026

CG&S spent 37 years in construction, then in 1994 an architect joined the family business: Dolores Davis’s husband, Stewart Davis.

Stewart started at CG&S helping to solve construction details and draw solutions for projects already underway. Over time, his role expanded into designing complete projects.

That one architect grew into a design studio, which expanded to include 3D visualization and interior design.

Which leads us to today: World Architecture Day.

Created by the International Union of Architects in 1985 and observed alongside the UN’s World Habitat Day, World Architecture Day ties the profession directly to questions of housing and adequate shelter.

That connection is especially clear in this year’s theme: “Housing is a Human Right. Build It.”

So today, we’re celebrating the architects and designers who make up our design studio and 32 years of architectural excellence at CG&S.

Address

402 Corral Lane
Austin, TX
78745

Opening Hours

Monday	8am - 5pm
Tuesday	8am - 5pm
Wednesday	8am - 5pm
Thursday	8am - 5pm
Friday	8am - 5pm

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