Completed outdoor living project by True Star Outdoor Solutions
Backyard Remodels · Plano, Texas

Plano outdoor living,
engineered around North Texas soil, drainage and weather.

Plano work runs the full spectrum for us, from precise hardscape on established lots to a $66,000 concrete-overcoat transformation and a $17,500 engineered attached pergola. Mature trees, existing pools, and tighter easements make Plano remodels design puzzles we enjoy.

4.9★from 50+ Google reviews
500+outdoor projects completed
100+projects completed annually
2-Yearwritten workmanship warranty
The Plano market

What backyards are worth building here.

Typical True Star remodel
$20,091 median across our completed projects; most run $11,700 to $32,400
Builds in Plano
Up to $66,000, established-lot transformations are our specialty here
Median home value
Holding steady in the mid-$500,000s per mid-2026 reporting; established neighborhoods with staying power
Growth outlook to 2030
Built-out and stable; value growth comes from renovation, not new rooftops, good news for remodel ROI
What's selling in backyards here
Attached pergolas, concrete overcoats, and renovations around mature trees and pools
Home-value figures per mid-2026 North Texas market reporting, rounded · project figures from our completed-project records
Top communities & HOAs

Built for Plano's best streets.

Willow Bend Deerfield Normandy Estates Kings Ridge Avignon Windhaven

We like working with HOAs. Architectural review exists to protect your neighborhood's value, and we prepare your drawings, materials list, and engineering to your association's standard so your packet is ready to pass the first time you submit it. If your community isn't listed, we serve all of Plano.

Permits, setbacks & approvals

The Plano permit manual.

Plano publishes a dedicated outdoor-improvements guide: permits required for covered structures, with review through Building Inspections. Easements and mature trees shape what fits where, we design around both.

Needs a permit
Covered structures per the city's outdoor-improvements guide; gas and electrical always
Under 120 sq ft
Plano exempts one-story detached accessory structures, gazebos, arbors, and freestanding shade structures under 120 square feet from a building permit. An attached patio cover is reviewed as a home addition and needs one regardless of size
Submittal package
Plans showing easements and setbacks, structural details for covers
Process
Building Inspections review, permit, inspections at each stage. Easement conflicts are the common Plano snag; we design around them first
HOA layer
Lighter in many established neighborhoods; where ARC applies we prepare the packet as standard
Setbacks
Plano's established lots are the easement capital of our service area: utility and drainage easements plus setbacks decide placement. We design around your plat from day one
Who handles it
True Star runs your city permit entirely: application, easement checks, and every inspection. Where ARC applies, we prepare your full packet so it's ready to submit. Included on all structures
Source: City of Plano Outdoor ImprovementsLast field-verified July 19, 2026
Ground truth

What Plano is built on.

Dominant soils

Blackland Prairie clays over the Austin Chalk belt; shallow chalk outcrops in parts of west Plano

Expansion behavior

Clay over chalk means movement on top and hard digging below, plasticity index in the 40s where Houston Black dominates

What it means for your build

Established-lot remodels also inherit decades of old grading decisions; we correct legacy drainage as part of the design, and rock-adjusted excavation is priced honestly up front

Per USDA NRCS soil survey data · Houston Black official series description · full engineering detail in our clay & drainage guide
One team, start to finish
Design, permits, and build,
handled for Plano.

Real line-itemized numbers, milestone payments, and a written 2-year workmanship warranty. Millions of dollars in completed outdoor projects across North DFW since 2020.

City permit fully handled, HOA packet prepared for you, on every structure