Your favorite room, out back in Ennis
Complete backyards for Ennis homeowners, on Blackland Prairie ground in Ellis County. Pool, kitchen, shade, stone and light, designed together and built by one family-owned team.
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Building in Ennis
What should Ennis homeowners know before building a backyard?
Ennis was founded in 1872 as a Houston & Texas Central Railroad town, so the older neighborhoods around downtown sit on small, tightly platted railroad-era lots while the subdivisions along I-45 and SH 34 are newer and more open. The surrounding farmland is deep Blackland cotton-and-corn ground, and the city is the state-designated Official Bluebonnet Trail of Texas, whose routes follow that prairie clay.
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 Ennis and follow it through review, so the schedule doesn’t stall on paperwork.
Longhorn has built across Ellis 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 Ennis
What we build in Ennis, TX
Also in Ennis: windows, siding, doors and attic insulation.
How it runs
How a Backyard Project Runs in Ennis
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A free design visit in Ennis
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 Ennis 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 Ellis County-local if you need us later.
Building in Ennis
Ennis 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 Ennis and handles the inspections, so the schedule does not stall on paperwork.
Nearby
Other cities we build in near Ennis
Free design visit
Free design visits in Ennis
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