Our Services
From custom home building to historic restoration, we are leaders in quality and value in San Antonio and across the Texas Hill Country through expert craftsmanship, careful planning, and over 30 years experience managing challenging custom projects. Click the Free Consultation link or call us at 210-413-7882 to set up a preliminary review for your project.
Custom Homes
We specialize in creating custom designed and meticulously crafted high performance homes. Our building process is structured to ensure that every detail is tailored to your needs and unique vision for a beautiful and comfortable space to live in. Your priorities are what guides us, and we deliver. At JBC our reputation is built on satisfied customers who are thrilled to be in their new homes.
Why our customers keep coming back:
✔ Personalized design consultation or working directly with your designer/architect
✔ Top quality material selection and specifying
✔ Building Science-based, energy saving construction methods and systems
✔ Consistent attention to detail from start to finish
✔ Experienced, professional project management
✔ Transparent communication and billing throughout the project
✔ Clear, detailed, and competitive pricing
✔ Industry leading warranty package
Premium Quality Roofing
In the pursuit of better quality control and cleaner jobsites for our new home and remodeling roofing work, we transitioned to managing our own roofing crews, and the whole new roof/re-roof process nearly a decade ago. What we learned was the majority of the roofing companies we had worked with marked up their projects at astronomical percentages and regularly priced based on what they assumed the customer could afford. What we saw was an opportunity for JBC to lead the local premium roofing market by providing honest pricing based on the job costs, with a fair markup, and the on-site project management and attention to crucial details that we found so often lacking with other companies.
What makes us the best:
✔ Top quality standing seam metal, architectural shingle, roof tile, TPO and gutter turnkey installation
✔ Cost-competitive with any premium roofer in Central Texas
✔ 15-year warranty
✔ Skilled in performing needed structural and roof decking repair or modifications, large or small
✔ Experienced, professional project management
✔ Period appropriate detailing for historic homes
Remodeling and Additions
Our team can completely transform your tired or outdated home into a space that inspires you once again. Many of our clients want something as simple as new cabinets and floors or a new bathroom, others have purchased a home in a neighborhood they love, but it needs a complete ‘gut’ and reconfigure, from the foundation up. Often it is a combination of a new addition and updating key spaces. Whatever the scope of your project or size of your budget, we are here with fresh ideas, and years of experience in turning good bones into great homes.
What sets us apart:
✔ Fully custom kitchens and baths, including design services
✔ Open floorplan conversions or room reconfigurations
✔ Additions, room expansions, and accessory structures/ADUs
✔ Attic conversions
✔ Complete interior and exterior renovations
✔ Foundation repair and roof replacement
✔ Outdoor kitchens, pools and entertainment spaces
Historic Restoration
We take great pride in the work we do restoring Queen-Anne, Craftsman, Bungalow and Victorian high-style homes in San Antonio’s historic neighborhoods. The superb detail and character of these 100+ year old homes deserves to be honored and maintained, while recognizing the necessity of updating them for modern living. We faithfully repair and reproduce period details when needed, typically from authentic reclaimed material. Even the issues with comfort that are common to historic homes can be solved, making vintage homes cozy instead of drafty in the winter and cool in the hot Texas summers.
Why we are historic home specialists:
✔ Specializing in San Antonio’s historic neighborhoods like King William, Lavaca, Monte Vista, Alta Vista, Alamo Heights, Dignowity Hill, and Tobin Hills
✔ Period-appropriate materials and construction methods
✔ Floorplan conversions, room reconfigurations, additions, and ADUs
✔ Foundation and structural repairs
✔ Air sealing and insulating
✔ Updated HVAC, electrical, and plumbing systems
✔ Roof repair and replacement
✔ Window repair, sash, and glazing replacement, in matched style and materials
✔ Repair and fabrication of gingerbread details, dentils, gable fretwork, turned balusters, etc.
Custom Cabinets and Millwork
There is likely no other element of a home that defines the space more than its cabinets. How many times a day do we walk into our kitchens and baths, and open up their doors and drawers? This experience can make or break how we feel about our home and how well it provides for our needs. With new cabinets, counters, and backsplash, we can transform a sad, outdated kitchen you avoid into a hub where you proudly entertain your friends or share perfect meals with your loved ones.
Why you want JBC:
✔ Beautifully designed and custom crafted cabinets and built-ins with the highest quality materials, construction, finishes, and hardware
✔ Full-service installation with countertops, backsplashes, appliances, and integrated lighting
✔ Premium hardwoods, specialty laminates, metallic and automotive-quality finishes available.
✔ Custom entry doors and windows
✔ Handcrafted original furniture pieces
✔ Industry leading warranty
Custom Design
Our path to homebuilding started in architectural design 30 years ago, and we continue to provide our customers with outstanding personalized custom home and remodel design for an affordable price. For larger projects or the perfect fit, we work hand-in-hand with award winning architects and interior designers (or your architect) to take your design to the next level. On many of our projects we provide detail-level design facilitation in conjunction with our architect partners to flesh-out custom details or illustrate specialty areas/items - in order to maintain clarity and consistent forward progress.
We care about design:
✔ Custom, permit-ready home and remodel design for our construction clients
✔ Premium kitchen and bath designs
✔ Plan modifications, additions, accessory dwellings, and outdoor living spaces
✔ Experienced design and engineering partners for large projects
✔ Clear focus on delivering design intent in every detail
Service Areas
JBC is based near Helotes, perfectly positioning us to serve San Antonio, Helotes, Bandera, Kerrville, Boerne, Fair Oaks, Spring Branch, Fredericksburg, Comfort, and the majority of the Texas Hill Country. Check out the county map below to see if your project is in our area. If you would like to take the next step, give us a call and we will come to your property or home for a free consultation and initial assessment.
From our customers:
"We had the pleasure of working with James Breaux Construction and his team on a full gut renovation of our late-1800s home, and the results are truly exceptional. Our goal was to restore the character of the home while incorporating a thoughtful blend of modern and midcentury design, and they delivered beautifully on that vision.
From the outset, James was highly communicative, transparent, and engaged. Even when inevitable challenges arose - as they do with any project involving a home of this age - he consistently approached them with a problem-solving mindset, working quickly to find solutions and make things right. That level of responsiveness and accountability made a significant difference throughout the process. He has a deep knowledge of historical renovation techniques and design. He also has his own creative skills as a furniture builder and helped us design a beautiful custom hand railing combining modern fabricated metal and repurposed wood from the original home.
Our project manager, Dylan Boyd, was outstanding. He was a near-constant presence on site, bringing a calm, steady demeanor and a sharp eye for detail. His oversight helped ensure that the work stayed aligned with both the design intent and quality expectations. He became a friend and welcome presence by the end of the project.
While no gut renovation of a historic home is without its bumps, what truly set this team apart was their dedication, communication, and follow-through. They honored their commitment to see the project through to completion - something that, unfortunately, not all contractors do. Even after the project was finished, they have returned multiple times to address small fixes and, impressively, have proactively identified items they wanted to improve based on their own high standards.
We are incredibly grateful for their craftsmanship, integrity, and professionalism. We would recommend them to anyone undertaking a complex renovation, especially one that requires balancing historic preservation with modern design."
— Darcy Kues and Camille Spears, Owners