Gary Keith Jackson Design

who we are

About Us

When it comes to residential architecture in or around Houston Texas our roots run deep, but our body of work stretches across the globe. As Certified Professional Building Designers for the Houston Metro Area, since 1989 we've worked hard to become one of the premier Luxury Custom Home & Building Design Firms in the Southeast Texas Gulf Coast region. This part of the country has many design opportunities, but comes with many design and engineering challenges that requires diverse experience. A thorough understanding both of civil and structural engineering, windstorm and especially flood prevention design as well as extensive soil dynamics. Through continuing education, exploring new building innovations and Leed certified technologies we strive to design the safest most advanced and secure buildings for our clients. Your choice of using a less experienced designer or architect can cost you hundreds of thousands in repairs and sometimes even a total loss, or worse. We take our responsibility as a design professional very serious, not only is it about our client's time and money, it's their dreams. When designing for our clientele, "experience matters", working closely with the industries best engineers, builders and suppliers our vast knowledge base is employed on all projects no matter if it's around the corner, across the country or somewhere in the world. Our work can be found all across America, the Caribbean, even the Middle East and far East.

In addition to Home Design we provide many industry related services, including Stock plan sales (existing pre-drawn home plans), Land Planning, Interior design, Specialty Structures, Commercial and Professional Buildings. We often consult on a variety of project types and are involved at many levels, from the initial land use feasibility and site selection to boutique mix use developments to even pairing up venture capital investors with projects, to high density inner-city townhomes, outdoor entertainment venues and facilities, to large comprehensive luxury estates complete with their own equestrian arenas and winery.

Many of our projects require multi-discipline involvement. To execute very complex design solutions we often collaborate with other experts and manage entire projects in-house. If a state licensed professional is required for your project we will collaborate with Registered Architects, Professional Structural, Civil, and MEP Engineers, Registered Landscape Architects, Interior Designers, and General Contractors so that we can provide our clients a "One Stop Shop" full service collaborative group of professionals tailored for any scale project.

Are you ready for something that is singular and unique, custom, innovative, efficient, that stands the tests of time? If you are ready to start your next project allow us the opportunity to show you what we can do just as thousands of satisfied clients have trusted us to design over a "BILLION" dollars in construction projects for them.

why choose us

Experience & Innovation

Masters of our craft with almost 30 years and thousands of designs we have the experience. Clients often ask what style do you see yourselves more versed at designing? Our answer is always the same, "WHAT STYLE DO YOU WANT" ? Look at our body of work and it is apparent we do not design one style. We design in many markets, our clients come from around the world, have many tastes, ideas, requirements both religious or functional and from every walk of life, working together we've developed that one key component and common denominator to be a successful Designer or Architect, "LISTENING". Continually refreshing our minds with new ideas, lifestyle trends, and with the latest technologies, materials, and building solutions then utilize them in our design concepts. Many of our projects are very high end homes and specialty buildings so we've been fortunate to work with industry leaders in building construction and automation learning how best to task those resources for our clients, engineers and builders.

Customer Service Committment

We treat our customers the way we would like to be treated and that begins with impeccable customer service. Followed with client interaction and communication is crucial to the design process. We collaborate with our clientele with frequent status updates and prompt follow up via modern day technology such as email, online meetings, social media like FACEBOOK and online sites such as PINTEREST & HOUZZ. We want to make sure our clients are involved in the design process, that we explore ideas together, review as many options and opportunities for the project to arrive at the best design scenario and keep our clientele engaged and excited about designing their new custom home. Then if needed be there for them during the construction process to make sure their vision is realized.

One Stop Shop

We can manage your entire project from start to finish. Beginning with site selection, property feasibility, architecture and design, all engineering, landscape and pool design, to permitting and construction. We offer numerous services in house and if we don't build your project we can help you select a competent professional builder who can. Most projects require more than just a set of house plans, with our collaborative efforts of various professionals we can do it all instead of you or your builder attempting to piecemeal it out to various professionals most of which do not communicate, manage the project or value engineer it efficiently.

testimonials

"My construction company has worked with Gary Keith Jackson for around 15 years, that alone should tell you how much we have enjoyed our working relationship. We have found Gary's firm to be timely, innovative, customer-friendly, and efficient. He is always open to new ideas and suggestions and tries to do all he can to keep clients satisfied. We have recommended him to many people who have been more than satisfied with Gary and his team and all would recommend him again. Honesty, integrity, and willingness to please are his trademarks. " - Tommy Bailey
"Gary Keith Jackson Design was referred by our builder Champion Custom Home Builders to design our first custom home. We were very pleased by his work. He took the time to meet and speak with us and was able to come up with exactly what we were looking for. Without a doubt I would highly recommend him to design your custom home!!" - Anna Marie Manzo
"Working with Gary Keith Jackson and his team was a delight. Gary was hands on with our project never making us feel that another project took priority over ours. He incorporated our desired features and made suggestions on design enhancements. Prior to beginning our project, we discussed a timeline for completing our design. Gary met every due date (which did require our timely review and response to all of his submissions to us). Most importantly, this part of our new construction project never felt hard. It required a lot of forward thinking about what we wanted. Gary utilized our thoughts/comments in his development of our plan. I was, initially, concerned about working with Gary given that his office is so far from our location. However, Gary utilized technology frequently to minimize our drive time. There were only two required in person meetings: 1. Initial meeting where Gary learned of our plan desires and where we assessed whether Gary was a good fit for our project. 2. First floor plan review which was truly a working meeting where Gary manipulated his draft of the first floor plan based on our feedback about the design. If I woke up tomorrow and learned that I had to do the architectural phase of my project all over again, I would simply call Gary Keith Jackson." - spivelaq000

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