Southlake, Tarrant County

Home Renovation and Remodeling in Southlake, TX

Family-owned remodelers updating the custom luxury homes of Timarron, Carillon, and Clariden Ranch, minutes from Southlake Town Square. We work from our Flower Mound shop just across Grapevine Lake to the north.

Local conditions

What a Southlake remodel usually comes down to

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Southlake + nearby Grapevine, Colleyville, Keller
Licensed
HVAC, Plumbing & Electrical (TX)
Family-owned
Based in Flower Mound
Service
Same-day & emergency
Call (682) 337-0863

Southlake is one of the newer addresses in the metroplex, a custom-luxury town that took shape around Southlake Town Square rather than an old core that filled in over a century. Most of its homes went up during a single stretch of master-planned growth in the 1990s and 2000s, and the population climbed roughly 199 percent in the 1990s alone. That history sets the tone for the work we do here. A remodel in Southlake is almost never about saving a failing hundred-year-old structure. It is about a large custom home that is now twenty or thirty years old and ready to have its kitchen, primary bath, and finishes brought up to the level the rest of the house was built to.

Because these homes were expensive and well built to begin with, owners tend to reinvest in the house they already have rather than start over somewhere else. That pushes the work toward finish-outs and whole-room upgrades instead of moves. A family stays put and rebuilds the kitchen, reworks the primary suite, or finishes a flex room to match how they actually live, and the goal is to raise a good home to its next level rather than repair a tired one.

Every permitted remodel in Southlake is reviewed by the City of Southlake Building Inspections, and homes along the Southlake Boulevard (FM 1709) and State Highway 114 corridors sit in planned communities that carry their own architectural expectations, which we map out before demolition begins. Southlake also buys its treated water wholesale from Fort Worth and delivers it through Southlake Water Utilities, so a project that reroutes supply lines or adds a second bath is planned around that municipal supply from the first walkthrough.

Homes in Southlake

Bringing Southlake's custom luxury homes current

The homes in Timarron, Carillon, and Clariden Ranch were built as custom luxury properties during Southlake's boom, and most were finished to a high standard the first time around. What they ask for now is a refresh, not a repair. A dated primary bath opened into a proper spa layout. A builder-era kitchen rebuilt around how the family cooks and gathers today. Millwork, lighting, and flooring brought current. This is high-end finish-out and remodel work on sound homes, not structural work on a failing shell.

Southlake's building years stretched across two decades, so its custom homes now sit at different points in their lives. The earliest are around thirty years old and squarely due for a first major update, while the newest are just entering their first refresh cycle. On the more recent builds the systems are still sound, so the work leans toward a custom addition, a media or flex-room finish-out, or a kitchen and bath update that keeps pace with a home that was already modern when it was framed. The value there is in tailoring the space to the family rather than modernizing old mechanicals.

Because these are large custom homes, a single Southlake project usually crosses several rooms and every trade at once. Moving a kitchen wall means rerouting plumbing, electrical, and HVAC that were run for the original floor plan, and it often calls for re-engineering a header to carry the new opening. That is exactly the scope where one licensed crew, working in a single sequence, keeps the job tight and the finish consistent from room to room instead of stalling between separate subcontractors.

What we do

Renovation services in Southlake.

A remodel in a Southlake custom home rarely stays in one lane. A primary-bath rebuild pulls in plumbing, tile, electrical, and ventilation. Opening a kitchen to the living space pulls in structural work and HVAC. Lantern holds licenses in plumbing, electrical, and HVAC and runs the whole project as one in-house crew, in a single sequence, instead of handing you between separate contractors. Under that one roof we cover kitchen design, bathroom remodels, flooring, interior and exterior painting, demolition, and structural modifications.

Where we work

Neighborhoods and areas we serve near Southlake

We remodel across Southlake, from Timarron, Carillon, and Clariden Ranch to Terra Bella, Versailles, Monticello, Estes Park, and Westwyck Hills, and on into the neighboring communities of Grapevine, Colleyville, Keller, Westlake, Trophy Club, and Roanoke. We are straight with you about one thing. Southlake is not where we are based. Lantern runs every job from its Flower Mound home base just across Grapevine Lake to the north, and there is no Southlake storefront, so we come to you.

Southlake neighborhoods

  • Timarron
  • Carillon
  • Clariden Ranch
  • Terra Bella
  • Versailles
  • Monticello
  • Estes Park
  • Westwyck Hills

Also serving nearby

  • Grapevine
  • Colleyville
  • Keller
  • Westlake
  • Trophy Club
  • Roanoke

Permitted remodels in Southlake are reviewed by the City of Southlake Building Inspections, and we pull the permit and schedule every required inspection as part of the job. Many of Southlake's planned communities also run their own architectural review, so anything that changes the exterior or the footprint usually needs that approval first. We build those sign-offs into the timeline before demolition rather than running into them mid-project.

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FAQ

Southlake renovation questions.

For most structural, plumbing, electrical, and layout work, yes on both counts. The City of Southlake Building Inspections issues the permit and runs the inspections, and we handle that paperwork and scheduling for you. Separately, a lot of Southlake's planned communities have an architectural review committee that signs off on exterior and footprint changes before a shovel moves. We line both up at the start so your project is never waiting on an approval it could have had weeks earlier.
Often it is, and for a different reason than in older towns. Southlake homes are large custom builds from the 1990s and 2000s, so the structure is usually in good shape while the kitchen layout, the primary bath, and the finishes simply read like the decade they were built in. Remodeling here is about matching a sound, high-end home to current taste and to how your family lives now, whether that is reworking a closed-off kitchen or turning a dated primary bath into a real spa suite.
Yes. A good share of Southlake work is exactly that, a custom addition, a flex or media room finish-out, or opening up a floor plan that was framed for how people lived twenty years ago. On a home this size those moves reach into plumbing, electrical, and HVAC and often into the structure itself, so we plan the full sequence before demolition and carry it through with the same crew from framing to final finish.
Because in a custom Southlake home that wall is rarely just a wall. The plumbing, wiring, and ductwork were all routed for the original floor plan, so opening a kitchen or combining two rooms usually means rerouting all three and re-engineering a header to carry the load above. Lantern is licensed in plumbing, electrical, and HVAC, so instead of coordinating three subcontractors around one another, you have a single crew that handles every piece in order. That is what keeps a big move from turning into a stalled schedule.
Usually, yes. Southlake homes tend to be large with more than one bathroom, so we can seal off the work zone, keep the rest of the house comfortable, and take the project room by room. For a whole-home or full-kitchen remodel we will talk through the disruption honestly up front so you can decide what fits your household before we start.
Three things mostly: the size of the home, the scope of the work, and the finish level you choose, and on Southlake's custom homes all three swing widely. That is why we walk the house first, then put a clear written scope and estimate in front of you before any work starts, with no vague allowances that quietly balloon later. Running every trade in house also means you are not paying stacked subcontractor markups on top of the work itself.

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Family-owned, licensed in plumbing, electrical, and HVAC, and straight with you from the first walkthrough. Reach out and we will come to your Southlake home, scope the whole job, and put a clear estimate in front of you.

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