Pools & Spas in Celeste
Gunite pools and spas planned with the deck, shade and kitchen.
Outdoor Living in Celeste, 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 Celeste homeowners in Hunt County, with one family-owned team.
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Before you build in Celeste
Celeste is on U.S. Highway 69, ten miles northwest of Greenville in northwest Hunt County. The town stands two miles southeast of the headwaters of the Sabine River, on open prairie already crossed by the Missouri, Kansas and Texas line when it was platted.
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.
We file the permit with the city or county office that covers Celeste and follow it through review, so the schedule doesn’t stall on paperwork.
Longhorn has built across Hunt 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 Celeste, TX
Outdoor Kitchens in Celeste
Stone islands, built-in grills, fridges and a real vent hood, under cover.
Patio Covers in Celeste
Solid-roof shade over the patio. It’s the simplest way to use it year-round.
Pergolas in Celeste
Fixed or louvered, built to your slab, the yard’s centerpiece.
Sunrooms in Celeste
Glass walls under a solid roof. Real square footage, light all day.
Patio Enclosures in Celeste
Screened rooms: the breeze and the view, none of the mosquitoes.
Hardscaping in Celeste
Travertine, pavers, seat walls and fire pits, with drainage solved first.
Landscaping & Lighting in Celeste
Water-wise planting, irrigation and lighting for North Texas.
Outdoor living ideas for Celeste homes
Homes and Yards in Celeste
The Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway platted the townsite in 1886, three miles north of Kingston, so its line would bypass Kingston. Celeste was named for the wife of a Santa Fe official.
Open prairie settings suit a hip-roof patio cover with open sides, so breezes pass through, set on footings deep enough for clay soil.
Elevation in Hunt County ranges from 450 feet in the southeast to 700 feet in the northwest. Temperatures average from 33° F in January to 93° in July, and the growing season varies from 218 to 247 days.
Water comes from the City of Celeste, which draws on groundwater.
Merchants moved their businesses from Kingston to Celeste after its post office opened in 1886. The town incorporated in 1900 and reported 1,022 residents by 1926, when its high school and two elementary schools registered 500 students and some fifty businesses operated there.
World War II hero Audie Murphy once lived in Celeste. In 1982 the community had a bank, four churches, ten stores and a school that enrolled 300 students. The town revived after the 1960s, with 745 residents in 1976. The population was 733 in 1990 and 817 in 2000.
NOAA’s Storm Events Database lists 73 hail reports in Hunt County from 2016 to 2025, 59 of them an inch across or larger, with stones up to 2.5 inches. 13 of those reports were logged at Celeste itself, the largest 2 inches. The same records show 32 damaging thunderstorm wind reports, with gusts up to about 85 mph, and 2 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 Celeste, TX
How is a pool built in Celeste?
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 Celeste the permit goes through the city or county office that covers Celeste, and Longhorn files it and follows it through inspection. More on pools.
What does a patio cover need in Celeste?
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 Celeste the permit goes through the city or county office that covers Celeste, and Longhorn files it and follows it through inspection. More on patio covers.
How is a pergola built to last in Celeste?
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 Celeste?
A sunroom or screened enclosure in Celeste is attached to the house, so it is permitted through the city or county office that covers Celeste 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.
Celeste outdoor living questions
Almost always, for pools and for anything attached to the house, including patio covers, sunrooms and enclosures. Longhorn files the permit with the city or county office that covers Celeste and handles the inspections, so the schedule does not stall on paperwork.
Celeste sits on Blackland Prairie ground in Hunt 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 Celeste
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Hardscaping
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Patio Covers
Outdoor Kitchen Countertop Materials in Frisco, TX
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Patio Covers
HOA Approval for a Patio Cover in Texas: DFW Guide
The HOA and the city are two separate approvals, and the HOA usually comes first. Here is the packet a DFW committee wants, how long it takes, why it says no, and how to answer a denial.
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