Designed for living, entertaining, and long-term strength.
Texas is hot. A properly designed boathouse over water can become the most comfortable outdoor space on the property — measurably cooler than the house — and the place the family actually spends the summer.
Geometry that pulls heat up and out.
A boathouse over water sits above the coolest air on the property. Open-gable geometry lets hot air escape upward while breeze pulls cooler water-surface air through the deck. The result is a deck that stays usable when the back patio is not.
A deck without posts in the way.
Standard framing puts a post in the middle of your view. Shore Tech's flying-buttress system carries the roof load to outboard piles, leaving the deck and the sightline clean — the way the space actually wants to be used.
The outdoor living room.
Outdoor kitchens, wet bars, LED lighting, large-screen video, built-in audio with subwoofers tuned for open-air listening, composite decking that doesn't splinter, and storage rooms run to the rafters. Built around how the space will actually be used.
- Outdoor kitchens & bars
- LED & large-screen entertainment
- Built-in audio & subwoofers
- Composite decking
- Boat & sailboat lifts
- Catamaran lift expertise
- Storage to the rafters
- Safety rails & lighting
Open water access designed deliberately.
Shoretech boathouse and pier designs include additional lower safety rails around open slips where needed and avoid inside 90-degree open corners. Angled fillet decks close off fall hazards while strengthening the structure and adding usable deck area.
The Broxson swim pier in Lovelady replaced a 40-year-old pier with a 150-foot build, a 20-by-12-foot L-head, and an elevated 14-by-16-foot diving deck.
Start with the way you'll use it.
Talk through your boat, your family, your shoreline, and how you want to spend the summer. The design follows.