Total Environment Homes

Why Tapestry’s Homes in Frisco Are Designed to Improve With Time

By Shelby Skrhak / June 7, 2026 /

Most developers aren’t around long enough to see what happens after the keys get handed over. For the past 30 years, Total Environment has operated on the belief that the real work begins after homeowners move in. Materials are substituted. Landscapes become secondary considerations. Maintenance teams inherit homes without understanding the reasoning behind key design…

Frisco’s Tapestry Homes Offer Terrace Gardens as Living Architecture

By Shelby Skrhak / March 29, 2026 /

In Frisco, there’s a unique neighborhood where the roofs are made of grass and a cascading terrace garden is built into every home. We’ve told you about Tapestry before, but it’s worth taking a closer look at just how different these homes are — and explaining what a cantilevered terrace garden actually is. I’ll come…

Best of 2020: India Developer’s Grass-Topped Community in Frisco is ‘Very Close to Nature’

By Tommy Cummings / January 1, 2021 /

[Editor’s note: Merry Christmas! This week, we’re taking time off to focus on our loved ones, so we are sharing some of our favorite stories from this year. Keep an eye out for our top features from the archives as we rest and get ready for a brilliant 2021! Cheers, from Candy and the entire staff…

India Developer’s Grass-Topped Community in Frisco is ‘Very Close to Nature’

By Tommy Cummings / November 8, 2020 /

Kamal Sagar’s unique vision of high-end homes coming to Frisco is finally coming into complete focus this month. India-based Total Environment Homes’ Tapestry community is starting a sales campaign this month on its 121-home residential community that features Texas native grasses on rooftops. We first heard about this in 2017 in a review by Frisco…