Custom Home Build · Tanglewood
Custom Home Builder in Tanglewood
Ground-up homes on your lot or on a teardown, drawn and priced by the same people who build them. Cost-plus, so the budget is a document instead of a mystery.
Our work in Tanglewood
Tanglewood Custom Home Rebuilt
Custom New Construction
A tree took down the house this family had lived in for decades. They chose to stay on the same lot instead of leaving the neighborhood, and the 6th Ave Homes design and construction teams built them a ranch-style home that reads like it has always been there. Scroll for the full custom new construction gallery.
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Design, drawn and built
What a custom home in Tanglewood involves
See how we approach every custom homeEvery other project starts with somebody else's decisions. This one does not. No wall that has to stay, no plumbing to work around, no previous owner's taste to negotiate with. That is the appeal, and it is the risk, because every choice is genuinely yours and there are thousands of them.
We draw it, price it, permit it and build it, and the drawings come from people who have to build what they draw. Cost-plus billing means you see the real numbers as they land instead of a lump sum with the margin buried inside it. Build on your lot, on land you are still looking at, or on a teardown in a neighborhood you already love.
Tanglewood is where the tear-down-or-remodel conversation actually happens, and it's a real one — original mid-century houses come down for much larger new ones every year. Which side of that line your house falls on is the first question we answer, and we'll tell you when the answer is remodel.
Building in Tanglewood
What the houses here actually ask for
The housing stock
Mid-century ranches under big trees, most of them fifty to seventy years old, with a run of larger two-story houses that went up as the neighborhood filled in.
What that means for the work
The houses here are sound. The layouts are just forty years behind how a family actually lives now, which is why most Tanglewood work is additions and whole-home projects rather than a finish refresh.
How it works
A custom home in Tanglewood, in three steps
01
Meet Up
We walk the house, listen to how you actually live in it, and talk honestly about budget before anyone draws a line.
02
Team Up
Our designers and drafting team put a real plan on paper — layout, selections, and a number you can build around.
03
Glasses Up
We build it, keep you in the loop, and hand back a home that feels like you. Pour something good.
Before you start
Custom Home Builder in Tanglewood: the questions worth asking first
The answers that change a Tanglewood project are usually the ones nobody asks until the drawings are done. We work through these first.
Do I need historic approval for work in Tanglewood?
No. Fort Worth designates fourteen local historic districts and Tanglewood is not among them, so your project does not need a Certificate of Appropriateness. Private deed restrictions are a separate question and worth confirming for your subdivision — no city overlay is not the same as no restriction.
Can I add on to a Tanglewood house, or should I build new?
Both are live options here and the honest answer depends on your lot and your existing structure. That is a drafting question before it is a construction question, which is why we draw it first. Our own drafting team runs the feasibility, so you get a real answer before anyone asks you to commit to a budget.
Should we remodel this house, tear it down and rebuild, or just move?
In Tanglewood all three are live options, and we're one of the few companies that can price all three honestly — our drafting team can tell you what the lot and the structure will carry, our builders can price both versions, and our agents know what it sells for as-is. We've rebuilt here for a family who refused to leave their street. We've also told people not to. You'll get the real comparison, not the one that sells our services.
How close to my property line can I build?
There is no single number we can publish for the neighborhood, and you should be skeptical of anyone who gives you one. Fort Worth applies a projected front yard setback on established blocks, which means your required front yard can be driven by your neighbors' houses rather than the base zoning district. It is a per-lot answer. We pull yours before we draw.
Can we start with the plans and decide about building later?
Yes, and plenty of people do. Our drafting team sells plans on their own, and the set is yours to hand to any builder you like. The drawings do not come with strings tied to our crew.
There is a house on the lot and we like parts of it. Rebuild or remodel?
That is worth an honest hour before anybody draws anything. Slab, framing, and where the plumbing runs usually settle it. A remodel that keeps four walls for sentiment and replaces everything behind them is a rebuild wearing a smaller number.
Thinking about a custom home in Tanglewood?
Tell us about the lot, or the house that isn't big enough anymore. We'll tell you honestly what it can carry, draw it, and price it — before anyone signs anything.