Your favorite room, out back in Melissa
Complete backyards for Melissa homeowners, on Blackland Prairie ground in Collin County. Pool, kitchen, shade, stone and light, designed together and built by one family-owned team.
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Building in Melissa
What should Melissa homeowners know before building a backyard?
Melissa sits on open blackland farmland along US 75 and the rail line north of McKinney; it was a small farm town for most of its history and the great majority of its homes are recent subdivision construction, so lot tree cover is young.
This is Blackland Prairie ground — deep, dark clay that swells in a wet spring and shrinks hard by August. It is the reason we engineer the pool shell for movement and set control joints in the flatwork on purpose rather than wherever the pour ends.
We file the permit with the City of Melissa and follow it through review, so the schedule doesn’t stall on paperwork.
Longhorn has built across Collin County and the wider Metroplex since 1984. We prepare the drawings an HOA typically asks for, and every project starts with a free design visit and a firm price.
The backyard in Melissa
What we build in Melissa, TX
Also in Melissa: windows, siding, doors and attic insulation.
How it runs
How a Backyard Project Runs in Melissa
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A free design visit in Melissa
A designer comes out to the house, measures, walks the access a crew would need, and talks through what you want the space to do. You leave with a firm price. On Blackland Prairie ground, that is also when the grading, drainage and movement details get decided rather than improvised on site.
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Drawings, permit and HOA
We file the permit with the City of Melissa and follow it through review, so the schedule does not stall on paperwork. Where an HOA wants a submittal, we prepare the drawings it asks for.
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One crew, one schedule
The same team builds the whole job in order, so the slab, the structure, the electrical and the finish work are not three different companies working around each other.
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Walkthrough and warranty
We walk the finished backyard with you, settle the punch list and leave one warranty on the work — and we are still Collin County-local if you need us later.
Building in Melissa
Melissa backyard 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 of Melissa and handles the inspections, so the schedule does not stall on paperwork.
Nearby
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Free design visit
Free design visits in Melissa
Tell us what you have in mind and we’ll come measure, talk options and give you a straight number — no obligation, no pressure.
Call (214) 251-4928