The Sonora
3,480 Sq. Ft.This design is optimized for expansive single-story living on rolling acreage. Features a dedicated guest wing, massive central gathering hub, and large covered patio that frames gorgeous Hill Country vistas.
Stop trying to squint at flat, confusing 2D blueprint lines wondering if your furniture will fit or if the hallways will feel tight. Walk through your customized Hill Country layout in full-scale, interactive 3D before we ever clear a single cedar tree on your lot.
Every Chance Leigh custom home is built specifically for the topography and contours of your land. Browse these twelve favorite designs as starting points for your fully customized Central Texas layout. Most builds in this range land between $800K and $2M+, depending on land, size, and finish level.
This design is optimized for expansive single-story living on rolling acreage. Features a dedicated guest wing, massive central gathering hub, and large covered patio that frames gorgeous Hill Country vistas.
Designed with a wide-angle footprint that captures sweeping outdoor views. Perfect for multi-acre rural homesteads, it features high vaulted cedar ceilings and a private primary suite retreat.
Ideal for growing families, this layout centers on a massive open-plan kitchen and secondary living zone. Perfect for subdivision lots or acreage, it blends high functional efficiency with elegance.
Designed with structural timber accents and a wide ranch layout. Excellent for windy hilltop elevations, it features deep perimeter porches and thick double-insulated framing for thermal comfort.
Perfect for entertaining, this layout features a spacious gourmet chef's kitchen, connected outdoor dining loggia, and four private bedroom suites. An exceptional layout for acreage lots.
Features a premium transitional aesthetic with clean lines and massive window clusters. Designed for light-filled family living, it includes a split-wing plan for maximum owner privacy.
A gorgeous layout featuring multi-level rooflines and a magnificent central fireplace gallery. Tailored for dynamic family routines, it offers generous flex spaces, double studies, and high ceilings.
A sprawling five-bedroom estate layout built to accommodate multigenerational living under one roof. Includes dual private primary suites and an expansive central kitchen gathering hub.
A true legacy homestead, offering grand double-height ceilings, a professional chef's kitchen with prep pantry, and massive timber columns that open to panoramic backyard pool views.
Optimized for thermal performance and cross-ventilation, this acreage plan features deep structural overhangs, a separate home theater room, and a massive integrated three-car utility workshop.
A gorgeous transitional stone masterpiece combining heavy limestone siding with double-paned custom windows. Features a grand entry foyer, dual wet bars, and an amazing executive study.
Our absolute flagship design, offering over 6,000 square feet of handcrafted luxury. Features a stunning four-car carriage garage, separate guest casita, and massive glass sliders for indoor-outdoor living.
A high-performance floor plan does not start on a drawing board; it starts on your actual lot. In Central Texas, where summer temperatures regularly exceed 100 degrees, designing a home without considering solar path angles is an expensive mistake. If you place massive walls of glass on a west-facing exposure, you will expose your living areas to brutal afternoon sun, driving up cooling costs and placing immense mechanical stress on your HVAC units.
At Chance Leigh, we design each of our 12 signature layouts with passive solar orientation in mind. We map your lot's solar coordinates to position the primary window walls on the northern and southern exposures, capturing beautiful, indirect natural daylight without importing the solar heat load. We also engineer deep, 24-inch roof overhangs that shade the glass during high summer sun but allow lower winter sun to enter and naturally warm the concrete slab.
We also coordinate your home's layout to leverage natural cross-ventilation. During spring and fall, prevailing southerly breezes move across Williamson County. By placing windows in direct alignment across major living vaults and corridors, we enable natural airflow to cool the entire house without running air conditioning. This lowers energy use and keeps your home fresh and comfortable.
Every layout we build is fully customizable to fit the specific topographical and botanical features of your lot. We adjust window placements, garage entries, and outdoor living patios to wrap around mature heritage oaks and maximize your land's best views, combining modern engineering with classic, climate-responsive design.
A custom home must function naturally from the moment you step inside. Our 12 signature layouts place strong emphasis on structural traffic flows. We design kitchen workspaces where friends and family can gather around a large prep island without interrupting the chef's core cooking work triangle.
Furthermore, a custom home in rural Georgetown needs a dedicated barrier to trap the outdoors. We design spacious, heavy-duty mudrooms right off the garage or secondary entrance, featuring custom cabinetry, sink prep stations, and hand-built gear lockers to catch country limestone dirt and wet shoes before they ever cross your main hardwood floors. See finished examples in the photo gallery.
Most custom buyers face a quiet anxiety: signing off on a stack of flat, black-and-white blueprints while struggling to visualize how the rooms will actually feel. When you can't visualize the height of a ceiling or the flow of a hallway, you are highly vulnerable to making costly change orders mid-build once the framing is already up.
To cure blueprint anxiety, we build your entire layout in a three-dimensional model first. Chance Leigh walks your raw lot with you, maps the solar exposure and heritage oak trees, and integrates the 3D walkthrough to show you exactly how light will pool inside your home seasonally. This provides absolute confidence in your layout before we ever clear a single tree.
If you have a plan you like, a sketch you've been refining, or just a rough idea of what you want to wake up to every morning — that's enough to start. Talk directly with Chance to run through your layout ideas face-to-face. The first layout consultation is completely free. Chance handles all planning conversations directly—no salesmen, no pressure.