Exterior design in Onion Creek
Onion Creek is Southeast's traditional submarket. Onion Creek experienced Austin's worst recent flooding events (Halloween Flood 2013, Memorial Day 2015) — buyout program + post-flood elevation transformed the neighborhood.
What a exterior design project looks like here
Onion Creek experienced Austin's worst recent flooding events (Halloween Flood 2013, Memorial Day 2015) — buyout program + post-flood elevation transformed the neighborhood.
Because of FEMA flood-zone compliance, ground-floor renovations require base-flood-elevation certification.
HOME Initiative applies to above-flood-plain parcels.
Craftsman bungalow facades, Mid-Century modern restoration, limestone exteriors — Historic Landmark Commission for designated properties. In Onion Creek specifically, traditional stock means exterior design scope is shaped by the neighborhood's dominant construction typology. Baily's Austin scoping flow factors onion creek floodplain and post-flood elevation compliance into the estimate before a contractor is involved.
Start your Onion Creek scope — Baily asks the right questions.
Pre-seeded for exterior design in Onion Creek. Mention your 2,000-3,500 sqft, your timeline, and any known constraints — Baily factors the austin dsd review queue into the scope.
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Who is Baily?
Baily is named after Francis Baily — an English stockbroker who retired at 51, became an astronomer, and in 1836 described something on the edge of a solar eclipse that nobody had properly articulated before: a string of bright beads of sunlight breaking through the valleys along the moon’s rim.
He wasn’t the first to see them. Edmond Halley saw them in 1715 and barely noticed. Baily’s contribution was clarity — describing exactly what was happening, in plain language, so vividly that the whole field of astronomy paid attention. The phenomenon is still called Baily’s beads.
That’s what we wanted our AI to do. Every inbound call and text has signal in it — a homeowner’s real question, a timeline, a budget, a hesitation that means “yes but.” Baily listens to every one, 24/7, and finds the beads of light.
Baily was a businessman before he was a scientist. That’s our vibe too.
Questions LA homeowners actually ask
Onion Creek exterior design projects typically run $32K–$235K. Onion Creek's traditional stock, combined with onion creek floodplain — 2013/2015 major flooding, puts most mid-complexity projects in the $134K range. Baily scopes the exact band once you describe the work.
Nearest neighborhoods
Same service, adjacent Austin submarkets.