Design · Draft · Build, under one roof
General contractor in Fort Worth
The Fort Worth team that designs, draws, and builds it all
Remodels, additions, garage apartments and custom homes. You don’t have to coordinate three separate companies.
Bring us a wish list or a bare lot. We handle the whole project, or step in wherever you need help.
Craft a home that feels like you.
Getting started
Start with the service you need
Bring your own plans, or nothing but a wish list.
Either way the same crew handles the whole build, and because we design and draft in-house, the plan you approve is the plan that gets built.
Plans from another firm?
Bring them. We’ll price them honestly and build what’s drawn — no redraw, no re-bid.
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Need plans drawn?
Our in-house design and drafting team draws the plan, grounded in what things really cost to build.
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Just a wish list?
Start with nothing but ideas. We’ll walk the space, talk real budget, and carry it from sketch to keys.
Start hereEither way, one team handles it from start to finish.
Considering a home addition? Explore our Fort Worth home additions guide for room additions, second-story builds, and more.
Hiring separately
What goes wrong when design and construction are hired separately
The designer specs something the budget can’t carry.
The contractor changes it without telling anyone.
And you become the project manager you never wanted to be, eating every gap between their scopes.
Blown budgets and designs nobody takes responsibility for. That’s what happens when design and construction are hired separately. It’s the reason 6th Ave Homes exists.
Construction services
What we build in Fort Worth
Six services, each one designed in-house and run by one company.
Home Additions in Fort Worth
Add the room you need, designed to match your house.
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Whole-Home Remodels
Open the walls and fix the floor plan that never worked for how you live.
Explore whole-home remodels →
Garage Apartments & ADUs
Apartments over the garage, for rental income or room for family.
Explore garage apartments →
Custom Home Building on Your Lot
Build new on your lot, or scrape and rebuild in the neighborhood you already love.
Explore custom homes →
Pool & Outdoor Living
Outdoor kitchens, covered patios, and pools, designed to match the house.
Explore pool & outdoor →Other construction services
Additions
Remodeling
Garage apartments
New construction
Outdoor living
Plans & drafting
Garage apartments are a 6th Ave specialty. We run a whole resource on them at DFW Garage Apartments, cost calculator included.
Why 6th Ave Homes
Design-build vs. hiring a contractor separately
Thousands of Fort Worth projects: historic down-to-the-studs restorations to ground-up custom homes.
We draft in-house, design in-house, and build in-house, so the plan you approve is the plan that gets built, priced cost-plus, every dollar visible.
Hire a designer and a contractor separately and you end up coordinating between them. Hire us and we handle both.
Voted Fort Worth’s Best Home Builder & Remodeler, four years running
Thousands of Fort Worth projects since 2016
Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce Small Business of the Year
Our process
How a build works, in three steps
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Meet Up
We listen, walk the space, and talk budget honestly before anyone draws a line.
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Team Up
Designer, drafting team, and builder put one real plan and one real number on the table.
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Glasses Up
We build it, keep you in the loop, and hand back a home that feels like you.
Step 01 is the Meetup. That’s where the estimate starts.
On the job site
What a general contractor does on your project
A general contractor runs the job: the permits, the schedule, the materials and every trade on site. On your project, that’s our own team, with subcontractors we’ve used for years.
Moving in
The day you get your keys
Walkthrough day on a finished Fort Worth build: keys handed over and the work finished.
View our work
Recent projects across Fort Worth
Hand-selected from renovations and builds across Fort Worth. Want one project start to finish? Walk through the Tanglewood custom home we built.
What people call us
Remodeler.Builder.General contractor.Renovation company.Design-build firm.
Different words for the same thing: one Fort Worth company that designs, drafts, and builds, and prices it cost-plus, so you see where every dollar goes.
Cost-plus, explained
What construction costs, and how we bill it
We bill cost-plus: the real cost, plus one markup you can see.
What a project runs comes down to scope, finishes, and whether we’re moving walls. You get a real range early, not a hopeful one.
How your bill is built
Materials
At cost. Open receipts: you see what we paid.
Labor
At cost. The crew’s real hours, no padding.
One transparent markup
Named up front. The only place we make money.
A real number before we break ground
A real price range early, updated honestly as the plan firms up.
No padded line items. No mystery bid. How we price each service lives on its page.
Questions
Questions about construction and remodeling
If your question isn’t here, ask the team. A real person answers.
Walkthrough day
or call (817) 631-9803
Are you a general contractor or a design-build firm?
Both, in the way that matters. We’re the general contractor who runs your build, and we’re also the designers and drafting team who drew it. That’s what design-build means: one company, one contract, one number, instead of an architect, a designer, and a contractor who’ve never met.
Does a general contractor have to be registered in Fort Worth?
Yes. Anyone who pulls a building, mechanical, plumbing or electrical permit in Fort Worth needs a contractor registration on file with the city’s Development Services Department. Homeowners doing the work themselves on the single-family house they own and live in are exempt. Electrical, plumbing and air conditioning contractors also need a State of Texas license before the city will register them.
Can you handle both the design and the build?
Yes. That’s the whole point of us. We design it, draft it, and build it, so the plan you approve is the plan that gets built.
Will you build from plans I already have?
Yes. Bring plans from another firm or contractor and we’ll price them honestly and build them. Or start with nothing but a wish list and our team will draw them.
What size projects do you take?
Full renovations, additions, garage apartments, and new builds: real construction, not single-trade handyman jobs.
How long will my project take?
We won’t pretend there’s a one-size number. A bath refresh and a ground-up build live on different calendars. What we promise: a real, honest schedule before we break ground, and we keep you in the loop the whole way. No moving targets.
Who’s the best remodeling contractor in Fort Worth?
6th Ave Homes is a Fort Worth design-build contractor specializing in whole-home renovations, kitchen and bath remodels, home additions, and custom new construction. We won’t pretend to be neutral, but Fort Worth Magazine has voted us the Best Home Builder & Remodeler four years running, and the Fort Worth Chamber named us Small Business of the Year. Ask around the neighborhood, then come meet the team and judge for yourself.
Where do you build?
Across Fort Worth, Tarrant County, and the close-in towns of east Parker County, like Aledo and Willow Park, roughly 25 minutes from downtown. Our drafting and design travel much further; construction stays where we can show up.
Do you only work on historic homes?
No. We build all over Fort Worth, old and new, from remodels to ground-up custom homes, and when a house sits in a historic district we handle the certificate of appropriateness too.
Where we build in Fort Worth
That’s our construction radius: Fort Worth, Tarrant County, and the close-in towns of east Parker County. Close enough for our crews to be on site every day. From Mistletoe Heights to Tanglewood, our neighborhood renovation work runs across all of them. (Our drafting and design travel much further.)
TCU, Westcliff & Tanglewood
Berkeley & Ryan Place
Arlington Heights & the West Side
The close-in towns
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Done wrong vs. done right
A renovation done wrong costs you twice: once in money, once in the year of your life you spend refereeing it.
Done right, it’s the home you stop wanting to leave. That’s the one we build.
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