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CG&S Design-Build Renovation, Architecture, Construction, & Interiors CG&S strives for perfection with every client, no matter the size or scope of the project.

CG&S Design-Build is a high-end Austin residential remodeling firm specializing in full-service design and construction services. Started as a family business 60 years ago, CG&S was founded on a culture of loyalty and dedication to hard work – delivering the highest quality product to our clients. Since then, CG&S has grown into a locally and nationally recognized design-build company with hundreds of projects under its belt, but we haven’t forgotten our homegrown roots. At their core, CG&S is a group of individuals who work collaboratively toward one sole purpose: making great homes. We design and build around you so you feel right, at home.

Clarence Guerrero grew up in East Austin, learning carpentry by joining his father on job sites. In 1957, with his wife ...
10/08/2026

Clarence Guerrero grew up in East Austin, learning carpentry by joining his father on job sites. In 1957, with his wife Stella, he started Clarence Guerrero & Sons. Clarence ran the jobs. Stella kept the books and the office moving. Their eight children grew up around the business, then eventually in it, learning the work from every side and helping shape what CG&S would become.

Clarence and Stella’s children would go on to lead the company in various stages of its evolution, carrying with them the work, traditions, and responsibilities they had grown up around. From the office to the job sites, generations of the Guerrero family helped shape the direction of CG&S and the standards the company was built around.

That feels inseparable from the Hispanic heritage we find ourselves celebrating this month. It shows up in a craft passed between generations, in the responsibility family felt for the quality of their work, and in the pride that came with building something together.

Hispanic Heritage Month gives us a chance to honor the culture at the foundation of CG&S and the Guerrero family who carried it through generations.





CG&S spent 37 years in construction, then in 1994 an architect joined the family business: Dolores Davis’s husband, Stew...
10/05/2026

CG&S spent 37 years in construction, then in 1994 an architect joined the family business: Dolores Davis’s husband, Stewart Davis.

Stewart started at CG&S helping to solve construction details and draw solutions for projects already underway. Over time, his role expanded into designing complete projects.

That one architect grew into a design studio, which expanded to include 3D visualization and interior design.

Which leads us to today: World Architecture Day.

Created by the International Union of Architects in 1985 and observed alongside the UN’s World Habitat Day, World Architecture Day ties the profession directly to questions of housing and adequate shelter.

That connection is especially clear in this year’s theme: “Housing is a Human Right. Build It.”

So today, we’re celebrating the architects and designers who make up our design studio and 32 years of architectural excellence at CG&S.





Downsizing changed everything.This project marked the third full home renovation this family trusted CG&S with.The homeo...
09/29/2026

Downsizing changed everything.

This project marked the third full home renovation this family trusted CG&S with.

The homeowners were moving from a larger Austin home into a smaller Craftsman Revival in historic downtown Georgetown. The new home had to support the life they were used to living in a much smaller footprint.

So how do you make that work?

Interior designer Killy Scheer of \@‌scheerandco had already begun working with the homeowners when CG&S joined the project. Together, the team focused on stripping away the house’s heavier, inauthentic Craftsman details, bringing in more natural light, and making the smaller footprint feel cleaner and easier to live in.

In the kitchen, heavy upper cabinets gave way to a large picture window over the sink. An 1800s draper table sourced at Round Top became the island, while storage moved into a new bar wall where individually mounted shelves required the veined stone to be cut around each one.

That same collaboration carried into the details. The primary bath was reorganized around one large double vanity, a steam shower, and laundry. Wider interior doors received magnetic latches to keep conventional latch bolts from catching and marking the oversized frames. And in the guest bath, individual Crossville Cursive tiles were laid out on the floor first, then installed piece by piece across the shower wall.

Each decision earning its place so a smaller home could offer everything these homeowners needed with room to spare.

Interior design: KILLY SCHEER • INTERIOR DESIGN
Photography: Avery Nicole Photography





What happens when our routines outgrow our space?For the family of this West Austin home, that issue showed up in little...
09/24/2026

What happens when our routines outgrow our space?

For the family of this West Austin home, that issue showed up in little things that grew over time. Shoes and backpacks landed in the entry with nowhere to go. The laundry room didn’t have enough workspace to comfortably do laundry. And an office meant for work and studying had become a room Dad would rather avoid altogether.

Our design team stepped in and looked at these rooms less as separate projects and more as parts of the same daily routine. An entry already acting as the family drop zone became an organized, dedicated one. The laundry room was reworked around storage, workspace, and ease. And the office became somewhere the whole family could actually use, from work and homework to movie nights and hanging out.

Same footprint, now tailored to the people who use it.



09/22/2026

Step into our June photoshoot of this three-bath renovation in Lost Creek.

In the primary, handmade Cotto tile from Mexico grounds the room, while burnished brass fixtures from California Faucets deliver a living finish that will age and accent the space even more over time. A mesquite and leather mirror from La Embajada brings another Mexican-made detail into the space.

The hall bath is shared by the family’s youngest son and guests. Rust, green, and white Zia tile runs across the floor, shower, and vanity, giving the room vibrancy without skewing too young.

The final bath’s design grew from a multicolored marble mosaic, with warmer clay tones carrying onto the shower walls. Behind the mirror, a custom eight-inch-deep medicine cabinet adds extra storage without giving itself away.

A quick look at one of our favorite recent renovations.





Every field has its own vocabulary.When meeting with clients, the words and terminology we use may not be everyday langu...
09/17/2026

Every field has its own vocabulary.

When meeting with clients, the words and terminology we use may not be everyday language to them. This realization brings us to Design Language, a recurring field guide to terms that come up in our line of work and what they mean.

First up: roofs.





Austin Home is asking Austinites who belongs on its 2027 Best Builders list.For nearly 70 years, we’ve had the privilege...
09/15/2026

Austin Home is asking Austinites who belongs on its 2027 Best Builders list.

For nearly 70 years, we’ve had the privilege of designing and renovating homes in this city. If CG&S has renovated or built your home, worked alongside you, or simply made something you think belongs on the list, we’d be grateful for your nomination.

Nominations close November 13 at the link in our bio.

Thank you for keeping us in good company.





Every material choice is also a color choice.Color theory starts with a simple idea: color doesn’t exist in a vacuum. Li...
09/10/2026

Every material choice is also a color choice.

Color theory starts with a simple idea: color doesn’t exist in a vacuum. Light, texture, and the materials around it all affect how a color is perceived once it’s in a room. Throughout this home, that idea was applied differently in each space: green and natural wood shaped the kitchen, pink set the direction for the girls’ bath, and the primary bath grew around Ijen Blue quartzite.

The homeowners wanted something personal, playful, and less tied to trends. Color became one of the ways to get there.





This house has been keeping Austin weird since 1975.Designed by Austin architect John Covert Watson, the home is a ferro...
09/08/2026

This house has been keeping Austin weird since 1975.

Designed by Austin architect John Covert Watson, the home is a ferrocement dome rooted in the organic architecture Watson practiced throughout Central Texas. He spent several years at Taliesin under Frank Lloyd Wright, but went on to develop a body of work here very much his own.

Over the years, the house was divided into separate residences and later brought back together as one family home. The kitchen was still dealing with the aftermath: low ceilings, layered systems, heavy concrete partitions, and very little connection to the living spaces around it.

The homeowners loved to cook, but with a ceiling as low as 6’-7”, the kitchen could feel cramped. CG&S raised most of it to 7’-4”, which meant sorting through and rerouting years of mechanical, electrical, and plumbing work before opening the kitchen back up to the rest of the main level.

A precise new kitchen at the center of a house defined by its curves.





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