Pools & Spas in Avalon
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Outdoor Living in Avalon, TX
Outdoor living is the covered patio, pool, kitchen, stone and lighting that make a backyard part of the home. Longhorn designs and builds them together for Avalon homeowners in Ellis County, with one family-owned team.
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Before you build in Avalon
Avalon is an agricultural community at State Highway 34 and Farm Road 55, about fourteen miles southeast of Waxahachie in southern Ellis County. Its first settlers arrived along Chambers Creek in the 1860s.
That ground decides how a slab, a pool shell or a footing has to be built here. Here is what it does to a patio.
In Avalon the job is reviewed by the Ellis County Department of Development, and we file and follow the permit through that office ourselves. Our permit guide lists the office for every city we have checked.
Longhorn has built across Ellis County and the wider Metroplex since 1984, and every project starts with a free design visit and a firm price.
Outdoor living we build in Avalon, TX
Outdoor Kitchens in Avalon
Stone islands, built-in grills, fridges and a real vent hood, under cover.
Patio Covers in Avalon
Solid-roof shade over the patio. It’s the simplest way to use it year-round.
Pergolas in Avalon
Fixed or louvered, built to your slab, the yard’s centerpiece.
Sunrooms in Avalon
Glass walls under a solid roof. Real square footage, light all day.
Patio Enclosures in Avalon
Screened rooms: the breeze and the view, none of the mosquitoes.
Hardscaping in Avalon
Travertine, pavers, seat walls and fire pits, with drainage solved first.
Landscaping & Lighting in Avalon
Water-wise planting, irrigation and lighting for North Texas.
Outdoor living ideas for Avalon homes
Homes and Yards in Avalon
Pioneer families including the John, Taylor, Loyd, Martin, Davis, and Youngblood families settled here, and William John reportedly named the settlement Avalon. A post office opened on August 3, 1881.
For an agricultural community, a detached pavilion with a fireplace or fire pit can serve as an outdoor room through the cooler months.
The Trinity River forms the eastern boundary of Ellis County, and the Austin Escarpment, a high chalk ridge, runs northeast to southwest across it. The county’s soils have average to good moisture retention.
Water comes from Avalon WSC, a water supply corporation, which draws on groundwater.
The Mt. Nebo Baptist Church, later the Avalon Missionary Baptist Church, was organized in 1879 and received a Texas Historical Marker in 1988. In 1884 the Texas State Gazetteer listed two steam cotton gins and gristmills, three churches, a school, two physicians, and general stores in Avalon.
The population was 226 in 1900. The post office closed in 1907 and reopened on January 16, 1937, and by 1940 Avalon had 300 residents. The population stood at 130 by 1970 and remained 130 in 2000, when the town had a school, a gin, and a volunteer fire department.
NOAA’s Storm Events Database lists 142 hail reports in Ellis County from 2016 to 2025, 114 of them an inch across or larger, with stones up to 3.75 inches. 1 of those reports was logged at Avalon itself. The same records show 39 damaging thunderstorm wind reports, with gusts up to about 85 mph, and 9 tornadoes. That is why a patio cover’s roof panels, fasteners and posts here are chosen for hail and wind, not only for shade.
What each outdoor project needs in Avalon, TX
How is a pool built in Avalon?
Blackland Prairie clay swells through a wet spring and shrinks hard by August, and a pool shell is a rigid object sitting in ground that moves around it. Here that means the shell, the beam and the deck are engineered for that movement from the drawing stage, and the flatwork gets its control joints placed on purpose rather than wherever the pour ends. In Avalon the permit goes through the Ellis County Department of Development, and Longhorn files it and follows it through inspection. More on pools.
What does a patio cover need in Avalon?
Blackland Prairie clay lifts and drops with the season, so a patio cover’s footings are the whole job. Posts set in shallow pads move with the top of the soil and take the roofline with them; footings taken below the active zone, tied to a slab that drains away from the house, do not. In Avalon the permit goes through the Ellis County Department of Development, and Longhorn files it and follows it through inspection. More on patio covers.
How is a pergola built to last in Avalon?
On Blackland Prairie clay a pergola’s posts are what decide whether it still stands square in five years. The clay moves most in the top few feet, so footings go deeper than the movement rather than resting in it, and the slab underneath gets its own drainage plan. More on pergolas.
Can a sunroom or screened enclosure be added in Avalon?
A sunroom or screened enclosure in Avalon is attached to the house, so it is permitted through the Ellis County Department of Development and sits on footings designed for the ground under it. We match the roofline and the exterior to the house so it reads as part of it. More on sunrooms and patio enclosures.
Avalon outdoor living questions
The Ellis County Department of Development reviews residential projects in Avalon. Pools and structures attached to the house, such as patio covers, sunrooms and enclosures, almost always need a permit. Longhorn files it and follows it through inspection.
Avalon sits on Blackland Prairie ground in Ellis County. The ground decides how a slab, a pool shell or a footing has to be built, so we plan the drainage and the footings for it at the first visit rather than after something moves.
Other cities we build in near Avalon
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Patio Covers
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Patio Covers
HOA Approval for a Patio Cover in Texas: DFW Guide
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