Sugar Land empty nesters build dream home with indoor basketball court, lap pool and dog room

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Sugar Land empty nesters build dream home with indoor basketball court, lap pool and dog room
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Steve and Shelly Maddox designed a 4,000-square-foot home with an indoor basketball court and gym for Steve, while Shelly, active in dog rescue efforts, has a special room for crating and caring for dogs.

irst thing in the morning, Steve Maddox is up shooting basketballs. Sometimes at the end of a hard day, he’ll blow off steam in the indoor court at the new home he built with his wife Shelly.

Shelly, 53, enjoys animal rescue work, so she has a small room to keep crates for foster animals, with a shower and grooming station where she can clean them up. That room has wallpaper with dogs all over it and a small fire hydrant just for décor. Shelly enjoys animal rescue work, so she has a small room to keep crates for foster animals, with a shower and grooming station where she can clean them up.

Steve figures that not everyone would want an indoor basketball court, but anyone who might live in the house in the future could turn that gym into two-story living space.The home of Steve and Shelly Maddox.The home includes an indoor basketball court for Steve. Outside, there’s a 60-foot lap pool and a putting green, both of which overlook Oyster Creek.

“We’ve had large homes, two stories, more than 6,000-square-feet and we rarely went upstairs. There was a lot of wasted space and that was not what we wanted this time,” Shelly said. “We don’t want to clean it or pay taxes on it. We wanted to keep it simpler.”

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