Pools & Spas in Lone Oak
Gunite pools and spas planned with the deck, shade and kitchen.
Outdoor Living in Lone Oak, 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 Lone Oak homeowners in Hunt County, with one family-owned team.
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Before you build in Lone Oak
Lone Oak is at the intersection of U.S. Highway 69 and Farm roads 513 and 1567, ten miles southeast of Greenville in southeastern Hunt County. Lake Tawakoni was built two miles southwest of the town in the early 1960s.
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 Lone Oak 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 Lone Oak, TX
Outdoor Kitchens in Lone Oak
Stone islands, built-in grills, fridges and a real vent hood, under cover.
Patio Covers in Lone Oak
Solid-roof shade over the patio. It’s the simplest way to use it year-round.
Pergolas in Lone Oak
Fixed or louvered, built to your slab, the yard’s centerpiece.
Sunrooms in Lone Oak
Glass walls under a solid roof. Real square footage, light all day.
Patio Enclosures in Lone Oak
Screened rooms: the breeze and the view, none of the mosquitoes.
Hardscaping in Lone Oak
Travertine, pavers, seat walls and fire pits, with drainage solved first.
Landscaping & Lighting in Lone Oak
Water-wise planting, irrigation and lighting for North Texas.
Outdoor living ideas for Lone Oak homes
Homes and Yards in Lone Oak
Settlers arrived in the late 1850s, and by the eve of the Civil War the community was named for an impressive oak that stood alone on the grass-covered prairie. A post office opened in 1869, and the town incorporated in 1890.
On open lots with little tree cover, a well-placed pergola with a solid or louvered roof can supply the shade a yard is missing.
The northeastern part of Hunt County drains to the Sulphur River and most of the rest to the Sabine. Bottomland soils are clayey and subject to flooding, and the uplands are loamy or clayey and loamy.
Water comes from the City of Lone Oak, which treats surface water.
Twelve years after the post office opened, the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad reached Lone Oak. By 1890 it was a shipping point for area farmers, with a steam gristmill, a cotton gin, 800 residents, three churches, a school, the weekly Lone Oak Call and over forty businesses. The population rose to 1,200 by 1914. It fell to 735 by 1945, the lake slowed the decline, and in 1990 and 2000 the population was 521.
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. 2 of those reports were logged at Lone Oak itself, the largest 1.25 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 Lone Oak, TX
How is a pool built in Lone Oak?
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 Lone Oak the permit goes through the city or county office that covers Lone Oak, and Longhorn files it and follows it through inspection. More on pools.
What does a patio cover need in Lone Oak?
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 Lone Oak the permit goes through the city or county office that covers Lone Oak, and Longhorn files it and follows it through inspection. More on patio covers.
How is a pergola built to last in Lone Oak?
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 Lone Oak?
A sunroom or screened enclosure in Lone Oak is attached to the house, so it is permitted through the city or county office that covers Lone Oak 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.
Lone Oak 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 Lone Oak and handles the inspections, so the schedule does not stall on paperwork.
Lone Oak 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.
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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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