When your name is on it, every detail matters.

Randy O'Brien has been putting up custom homes around Sherman and Denison since 1998. Randy is your sole point of contact from the first walk of your lot through to the day he hands you the keys... and he's never more than a phone call away.

Hear what his clients have to say.

Hamid and Lisa, in the house Randy built them

We never had to chase him. If we called, he answered — and if he said he’d be there Tuesday, he was there Tuesday.

Hamid & Lisa S.O’Brien homeowner

Randy walked the slab with me before the pour and explained every line on it. I’d never had a builder do that.

Mike C.O’Brien homeowner
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Randy O’Brien

Ready to talk about yours?

Randy takes the call himself, usually the same day.

Randy O’Brien, owner of O'Brien Custom Homes

A word from Randy

I grew up here. Sherman High, class of 1983, and I have been building houses in this county since 1998.

What people thank me for is almost never the tile or the trim. It is that I picked up the phone. That when something was going to run over, they heard it from me in week six instead of finding it on an invoice in week twenty.

A home is the largest purchase most families ever make. I don't take that lightly. As someone who lives in the community I'm helping to build, I put all of my experience, expertise, and care into every build. I don't build 50 or 100 houses a year like the big cookie cutter companies do. I build 10 homes a year that provide a homestead for generations to come.

Randy O'Brien

Recent work

Custom homes that are truly custom.

Built to meet your unique family needs and backed by Randy's years of experience and solid track record of happy clients.

Where we build

Grayson County and the towns around it.

Every county builds its own way. Ours has black clay that moves under a slab, summers that chew through a cheap roof, and inspectors who have seen every shortcut there is. Knowing all that is just the job when you are from here.

  • Sherman
  • Denison
  • Pottsboro
  • Howe
  • Van Alstyne
  • Gunter
  • Whitesboro
  • Bells
  • Tom Bean
  • Collinsville

Already own your land? Good. That is most of what we do.

Start your build
An O'Brien home at dusk with an arched timber front door and mature planting.
Randy O’Brien with his family outside a home in Grayson County.

Why it stays small

He keeps it small so he can be on every job.

Randy started in 1998, worked through the 2008 crash without laying the company down, and never grew it past the point where he could still walk every job himself. There is no sales floor here and no regional manager.

There is a builder, the crews he has used for years, and four grandchildren who are going to inherit whatever reputation he leaves behind. That is the reason the phone gets answered.

Start here

Come walk a lot with Randy.

No salespeople, no phone operators, no gimmicks. Just a builder who cares that answers your call from the first inquiry to closing day when he hands you the keys.

  • A straight answer on what it will cost
  • A look at lots, or a look at the land you own
  • Your point of contact from start to finish is the man with the answers
Start your build
or just call him
903.821.2482

Straight to Randy. Never shared, never sold.