The Two People Behind Riverbend

Vanessa Harris owns the company. She and her husband Dan price the work and walk the job sites. The two of them carry your project from the first call through the final walkthrough.

Vanessa Harris and her husband Dan of Riverbend Hill Country Homes
Riverbend Hill Country Homes is a woman-owned business based in Dripping Springs, Texas. Vanessa Harris owns the company and runs it with her husband Dan, and between them they bring 35+ years of combined experience in luxury hospitality, construction coordination, design-build collaboration, and residential project execution. Vanessa came to residential building and whole-home remodeling from luxury hospitality construction, where she ran resort and spa projects for hotel brands. The company takes a small number of projects at a time, which is what lets them price your project, walk your site every week, and hand the finished house over themselves.
Hospitality Construction

Where Vanessa Learned Her Standard

Before Riverbend, Vanessa planned and delivered multi-million-dollar hospitality projects, in buildings thousands of guests walk through every day.

  • Hilton Orlando Resort
  • Trellis Spa at The Houstonian
  • Hotel Galvez Spa
  • Stonedrift Spa at Eagle Ridge
  • Fiori Spa

She brought that experience home to residential work, and Riverbend holds every house to the same finish standard.

Day to Day

Dan Runs the Job Site

Dan manages the trades, the schedule on the ground, and the site itself. Vanessa handles the client side, the design coordination, and the finishes.

They review every active project together each day. A question you raise with one of them reaches the other. Whatever they take on, a new build or a remodel, it runs through the same four stages. See how a Riverbend project runs →

Our Service Area

Why We Stay Within an Hour of Home

Riverbend takes work within about an hour of town because that radius is what keeps Vanessa and Dan on your site in person. That town is Dripping Springs, where Vanessa lives with her family.

See where we build, town by town →

See the Work

We show the San Marcos renovation room by room, and we name the budget, the timeline, and every firm that worked on it.

4.8⭐ on Google
Our rating from homeowners and from the architect on our featured project
$1.3M renovation
The featured San Marcos renovation, completed June 2026
Named team
Alexander Ridgway, Amy Kennedy Design, BEC Engineering, Steve Harris Photography
As an architect I have had the pleasure of collaborating with Vanessa and Dan on several projects and can attest to their knowledge, skill and professionalism.
Alexander Ridgway, Verandah Residential Architects · Google review

Get in Touch

Call us to talk about your project, or send the form and we will get back to you.

Prefer email? Write to build@riverbendhillcountryhomes.com.

Vanessa answers this number, weekdays 9 to 5.

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