"I like knowing that this house will be here for generations. I didn't want any sense of the quickness that life moves at now. I wanted a place where you come in and you sink and settle - where everything just sort of stops."
Madeleine Stowe reviewing the home that Richard Laughlin restored for her in Comfort, TX. As quoted in InStyle magazine.

 
Awards

For photos and descriptions of the homes that won these awards please contact Laughlin Homes directly.
2005 Star Awards
Remodeler of the Year
Richard Laughlin, President, Laughlin Homes and Restoration 

Best Addition Between $100,000 and $250,000
Ottmers U2 Ranch, Fredericksburg, TX

Best Period Restoration
Ottmers U2 Ranch, Fredericksburg, TX

Best Overall Interior Design for a Hume Under $500,000
Hiscock-Mann's Inspiration Hill, Fredericksburg, TX

Best Architectural Design for a Home Under $500,000
Jones' Perdernales River Ranch

Best New Home Under $500,000
Jones' Perdernales River Ranch

2004 Star Awards
Best Historic Renovation
Lungkwitz Building, Fredericksburg, TX

Best Commercial Remodel
Lungkwitz Building, Fredericksburg, TX

Best Period Restoration
"Flying G" Guesthouse
2004 Hill Country Parade of Homes
 Best Craftsmanship
Most Unique Home
Best Interior Design
Lungkwitz Building restoration, Fredericksburg, TX

2003 Lone Star Awards
 Remodeler of the Year
Richard Laughlin for Historic Restoration Work

Best Period Restoration Over $200,000
Brzezinski Restoration
Dick & Linda Brezenski, Fredericksburg. TX

Best Detached Outbuilding
Diamond Belle at Palo Alto Creek, Fredericksburg. TX
2003 Star Awards
 Custom Home Between $250,000 and $350,000
Finalist for Hutton Home at Deer Ridge, Fredericksburg, TX

2002 Lone Star Awards
Best Kitchen Under $25,000
Leigh & Bill Waller's Kitchen and Dining Area, Fredericksburg, TX

Best Period Restoration Under $100,000
Pecan Creek Cabin
Judy & David Bland, Fredericksburg, TX

Best Historic Renovation $100,000 to $200,000
Mid-1800's Homestead
Cindy & Stan Zwinggi, Fredericksburg, TX
2001 Lone Star Awards
Best Historic Renovation $100,000 to $200,000
Eddie's Cabin
Eddie Burkholder & Fred Witters, Fredericksburg, TX
2000 Lone Star Awards
Best Kitchen $20,000 - $40,000 in Central Texas
The Farm
Dr. & Mrs. Ralph Sharman, Fredericksburg, TX
Best Room Addition $30,000 - $40,000
The House of the Painted Pony
Dr. & Mrs. Barrett Burns, Fredericksburg, TX
Best Historic Renovation Under $100,000
German Immigrants Barb
Tim & Carol Bolton, Fredericksburg, TX
1999 Custom Builder of the Year (National Award)
Best South Home
Les Collines, Fredericksburg, TX
1999 Lone Star Awards
Best Kitchen $20,000 to $40,000 in Central/South TX
Dr. & Mrs. Daniel Robertson, Fredericksburg, TX
1998 Lone Star Awards
Best Historic Renovation Over $200,000
Cowgirl Ranch, Fredericksburg, TX
Best Historic Renovation $100,000 to $200,000
Country Home of
Lynn & Fonza Lawther, Fredericksburg, TX
1997 Design Award - Grand Award (National Award)
Country Home
Lynn & Fonza Lawther Residence, Fredericksburg, TX
Media Reviews
Of Laughlin Homes
For copies of these articles or videos contact
Laughlin Homes directly.

 

Today's Builder
February 2005 Cover Story:
Laughlin's home designs "are as diverse as the families that he works with.(One home) incorporates and eclectic blend of Hill Country, old world, and Japanese design while the other is true to traditional German style "of the Texas Hill Country.

 

 

Builder/Architect, San Antonio/Hill Country Edition., Feb 2002
Cover Story: "Laughlin Homes & Restoration, Inc. Restoring the Past - Building the Future." Page 6, "Capturing the beauty of the Hill Country and transforming it into timber and stone takes talent that seldom comes naturally." By Gina Jones.

 

 

Southern Living. November 2002.
"Robert Earl Keen At Home", Texas Living page 3. "He (Robert Eal Keen) has a reputation for being rough and rowdy, but when he's offstage, Robert settles down with his beloved wife and daughters on their Bandera ranch" and writes new music in a studio built by Richard Laughlin modeled after a Texas fort. By. Meg McKinney Simle.

 

Fredericksburg, The Premier Magazine of the Texas Hill Country, Fall/Holiday 2002
"Dreambuilder" Page 18. Laughlin Homes & Restoration designs to compliment the rugged Texas Hill Country, turning construction into and art form. By Diana Comer.

Home & Garden Television, Country Style Show 101. January 2, 2002. Feature on Laughlin Homes "Other builders paint by the numbers. Laughlin paints on canvas and we're starting out with a clean canvas."

 

 

 

Kerrville Daily Times, December 29-30, 2001
Business Headline Story: Designer's Unique Work. Front Page, Business Section. "Laughlin's company, Laughlin Homes, designs new homes, does renovations, restoration and remodeling and offers build/design services." By. Danni Hill.

Cowboys & Indians, The Premier Magazine of the West, September 2001
Cover Story: "Madeleine Stowe", Pg 149. This leading lady traded the spotlight for starry nights with family and friends in the Texas Hill Country in a restored homestead built by Laughlin Homes. By Eric O'Keefe.

 

 

InStyle, Celebrity + Lifestyle + Beauty, November 1998
"Deep in the Heart of Texas" Page 376. "Madeleine Stowe and her husband Brian Benben take up ranching on their glorious Hill Country spread" renovated by Laughlin Homes. By Lisa Broadwater

 

 

Victoria, October 1999
"Homespun Elegance" Page 64. Fredericksburg designer Carol Bolton, had Richard Laughin renovate her 1904 barn, originally built by German immigrants, for Victoria's Designer in Residence series. By. Claire Whitcomb.

 

 
   

Texas Building Trends, The Magazine of the Texas Association of Builders. May & June 1999
"Recognizing Excellence In Remodeling" Laughlin Homes & Renovations wins the Best Historic Renovation award.

 

 

 

Custom Home, The Art and Craft of Custom Home Building, May/June 1997
"Grand Award" Pg 78. Original 150-yaer old stone and log walls, now sheltered inside, convey a mellow warmth to Laughlin's renovated Texas dog trot. By The Editors.

Custom Builder, A Forum fir Designers, Architects, Builders & Remodelers. Mar/Apr 1999
"Les Collines" Page 52. "The home takes its design from 19th century German-style homestead, where the outbuildings are linked to the original stone farm house over time. Traditional building materials, such as the limestone and metal roof - to protect against hale - complete the look." Laughlin Homes won the Custom Builder of the Year Award for this work. By Jennifer Fogler.