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Vaughn Custom Homes
Aerial view of a Hill Country neighborhood among the oaks

Build on your lot

You have the land. We build the house that belongs on it.

Building on your own lot across Comal County — Canyon Lake, Fischer, Spring Branch and New Braunfels — and over into Blanco. Start from one of our 12 pre-bid, pre-engineered plans, or from a blank sheet of paper. Third-generation builders, one team, and a process you can see into from the first walk of the property.

Two ways to start

Two ways in. Neither one is the exception.

Build-on-your-lot and from-scratch custom are genuinely different jobs, and it is easy to end up steered toward whichever one a builder would rather be doing. We actively do both, every year. The decision in front of you is about the house you want — not about what your builder is set up to sell.

Option one

Start from a plan

12 plans from 1,698 to 3,735 square feet, already bid with the trades who build them and already engineered. You pick one, we fit it to your lot and change what you want changed. It is the shortest, most certain route onto your land — and it is why the collection exists at all.

See the 12 plans

Option two

Start from a blank sheet

Nothing in the collection is quite right, or you have been carrying an idea for years and want it drawn properly. We have three designers on the team and three generations of building behind them. We draw it, engineer it, bid it and build it — on your lot, the same way.

How the process runs

Why the plans exist

A custom home, without the blank sheet of paper.

Most people building on their own lot want a custom home. What many of them do not want is to start from nothing — months of drawing, a budget that stays a guess until the drawings are done, and a hundred decisions before anything at all feels certain.

That is the entire reason the plan collection exists. It is not a catalog for its own sake. It is a finished, engineered, already-bid starting point for someone who wants a home built for them without beginning at a blank page.

01

Already bid out

Every plan has been priced with the trades who actually build it. You are working from a real number early instead of one that moves the moment the subs quote it.

02

Already engineered

The structural engineering is finished before you start rather than after you commit. That is weeks of drafting and review you never have to wait through.

03

Still yours to change

Move a wall, change the elevation, pick every finish. Because the plan is already drawn and bid, a change starts from a known number instead of a guess — so you hear what it costs while you can still change your mind.

On your ground

The same house on two different lots is two different builds.

What the land adds is the part nobody can tell you over the phone. So before there is a budget, there is a site assessment — we come out, walk it with you, and work from what is actually there.

  1. 01

    We walk the lot with you

    Where the house wants to sit, which way it faces, what the slope and the trees and the views are doing. This is the conversation that decides most of the rest.

  2. 02

    What the site adds

    Slope and rock, access and driveway length, septic, water, and the power run. These vary more between two lots than anything inside the house does — which is why we assess before we price.

  3. 03

    The rules that come with the land

    Deed restrictions, POA or architectural review, setbacks and county permitting. We build inside them, and we tell you early where they will shape the house.

  4. 04

    Then a plan, and a real budget

    With the ground understood we match one of the 12 plans to it — or draw you a new one — and put a number on the build that holds up.

Not standing on a lot yet? We help people find the land first — and looking at a lot with a builder beside you is cheaper than finding out afterwards.

Where we build

Neighborhoods we build in across Comal County.

These are the developments and neighborhoods we build in — most of them in Comal County, around Canyon Lake, Fischer, Spring Branch and New Braunfels, with a few over the line into Blanco County. If your lot is in one of them, or anywhere near them, tell us the address — it is a short drive to most of this part of Texas.

  • Summit Estates

    Fischer

    Gated, with lots of 1 acre and up.

  • Summit North

    Canyon Lake

    Gated.

  • The Point at Rancho Del Lago

    Canyon Lake

  • Rancho Del Lago West

    Fischer

  • The Legends at Rancho Del Lago

    Fischer

    A gated community within Rancho Del Lago West, with lots of 1 acre and up.

  • Rocky Creek Ranch

    Canyon Lake

  • Stallion Springs

    Fischer

  • Mystic Shores, west of 306

    Spring Branch

    The larger lots — 3 acres and up.

  • Mystic Shores, east of 306

    Spring Branch

    Lots of 1 acre and up, lake views on many of them, and two gated neighborhoods within.

  • Rockin' J Ranch

    Blanco

    A golf-course community.

  • Paradise on the Guadalupe

    Canyon Lake

  • Vintage Oaks

    New Braunfels

    Acreage of 1 to 14 acres with four gated neighborhoods within, and a heavy amenity package.

  • Head Mountain Preserve

    Blanco, in Comal County

    A brand-new gated community of 16 homesites, each from 13 to 21 acres, with panoramic Hill Country views. Several tracts have already been selectively cleared.

Ready when you are

Send us the address and we'll tell you what fits.

Walk the lot with us, look at the 12 plans, or start from a blank sheet — no pressure either way.