Design Consultation · Georgetown, TX
Drawings, finish selections and a real budget — before anyone picks up a hammer. Serving Georgetown, TX and the rest of Williamson County.
Design Consultation in Georgetown, TX
Georgetown is the town where the permit conversation matters most, because a large part of what makes it beautiful is legally protected. If your house sits in the Downtown or Old Town overlay, exterior work needs a Certificate of Appropriateness before a building permit will issue — and that is a design review, not a formality.
Most remodels go wrong at the decision stage, not the building stage. A design consultation is where we work out what the room should be, what it will genuinely cost, and what order it happens in — so that the build is an execution job rather than a series of expensive improvisations.
Two very different worlds. The Old Town and downtown squares hold some of the best-preserved Victorian and early-1900s housing in Central Texas, much of it inside a historic overlay. Then there is Sun City and the newer master-planned areas to the west, which are almost entirely post-1995 single-storey slab construction built for accessibility.
Applications go through the MyGovernmentOnline portal. The part that catches homeowners is the historic overlay: a Certificate of Appropriateness is reviewed against the Downtown and Old Town Design Guidelines by the Historic Preservation Officer or the Historic and Architectural Review Commission, and it comes before the building permit, not after. We handle the application and inspections through City of Georgetown Development Services as part of the job.
What's included
Accurate measurements of what is actually there, including where structure, plumbing and electrical run.
Two or three drawn options for the space, with the trade-offs of each explained rather than just presented.
Cabinetry, tile, counter, paint, fixtures and hardware pulled together as one scheme, with samples to see in your own light.
A realistic cost range per option, and a sensible order if the work is happening in stages.
Where the project needs them, drawings prepared to the standard your city's review will accept.
Questions
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Applications go through the MyGovernmentOnline portal. The part that catches homeowners is the historic overlay: a Certificate of Appropriateness is reviewed against the Downtown and Old Town Design Guidelines by the Historic Preservation Officer or the Historic and Architectural Review Commission, and it comes before the building permit, not after. We pull and manage it as part of the job through City of Georgetown Development Services, so you are not the one learning MyGovernmentOnline.
Georgetown is the one with the historic overlay for us. We are based in Taylor and Georgetown is inside our core service area, so a site visit is usually within a few days of you calling — not a fortnight.
Yes, if you go ahead with us. If you do not, you keep the drawings and the selections and are free to take them elsewhere — you paid for them.
If the layout is not changing and you have chosen your finishes, probably not. If walls are moving, plumbing is relocating, or you have been going round in circles for months, the design stage usually saves more than it costs.
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Free consultation, no obligation. We'll look at the space, talk through options and give you a number you can plan around — anywhere in Georgetown, TX.
