Shed Builder in Houston, TX

What we build

Storage sheds: from a simple garden shed to a large custom storage building, sized and styled to the yard and the deed restrictions.

Workshop sheds: built for tools and projects, with the door widths, workbenches, and layout a working shop needs.

Backyard offices and studios: insulated and finished inside so they're usable in Houston heat — a quiet space to work or create.

She sheds: finished retreats, built out to whatever the use calls for.

Custom sizes and styles: matched to your house, your yard, and your HOA.

Tiny house and ADU structures: the built shell and framing for a small accessory dwelling — see the section below on how that scope works in Houston.

Backyard offices and studios that work in the heat

A bare shed in Houston is unusable from June to September — it turns into an oven by 10 a.m. What makes a shed a space you can actually work in is an insulated shed: insulated walls, ceiling, and floor, real windows and a proper door, and a finished interior.

Insulation is what makes the difference, and it's what we build in. Keeping the space cool and powered — cooling and electrical — is a separate scope we don't take on, so that gets arranged separately, but the shell we build is designed for it: insulated, finished, and ready to be conditioned. We'll talk through what a comfortable backyard office needs before we build so it's specced right the first time.

Shed foundations

A shed is only as good as what it sits on, and Houston's clay makes the foundation the part people underestimate. Set a shed on the bare ground and it wicks moisture, the floor rots, and the doors bind within a couple of seasons as the soil moves.

We install the right foundation for the shed and the site: a compacted gravel pad for a basic storage shed, concrete piers or a pier-and-beam base for a larger or finished building, or a poured slab where the use calls for it. The foundation gets the structure up off the wet ground, keeps it level as the clay moves, and is the single biggest factor in how long the shed lasts.

Tiny houses and ADUs

A tiny house or an accessory dwelling unit (ADU) is a shed's more ambitious cousin, and the build is only part of the job. We build the structure and shell — the framing, roof, siding, windows, doors, insulation, and interior finish.

Two things to know going in for Houston: an occupied structure is permitted work, and the permitting for an ADU is a real process, not a formality. And the utilities that make it livable — electrical and plumbing — are a separate scope outside what we do, coordinated on their own. We're straight about that up front so the project is planned as a whole and the structure we build is designed to accept it.

Do you need a permit for a shed in Houston?

For a simple storage shed, often no. Inside the City of Houston, a small accessory building under 200 square feet that nobody occupies and that has no utilities is generally exempt from a building permit. Go over that size, add power or plumbing, or make it a space people use, and it becomes permitted work.

Two things catch people regardless of the building permit: deed restrictions and HOA architectural approval, which apply in a huge number of Houston neighborhoods and are separate from any city permit; and setback rules that govern how close to the property line the shed can sit. Outside the city, unincorporated Harris County and the smaller cities have their own thresholds. An ADU or any occupied structure is always permitted. We tell you what applies to your address before we start.

What a custom shed costs in Houston

A basic storage shed is the low end and scales up quickly with size, finish, and use. A plain gravel-pad storage shed is the least expensive; an insulated, finished backyard office costs several times as much per square foot because it's a small building, not a box — insulation, windows, a real door, and interior finish. The foundation is a real line item on top, and a tiny house or ADU structure is a different tier entirely.

What moves your number: size, insulation and interior finish, foundation type, window and door count, siding and roofing to match the house, and site access. These are ranges, not quotes — we price after seeing the yard and talking through how you'll use the space.