Home Addition · Arlington Heights
The room is the easy part. The ground isn't. Home Additions in Arlington Heights
Second story, primary suite, sunroom, or the garage nobody parks in. Built so that in five years nobody can tell which part of the house came later.
Design, drawn and built
What a home addition in Arlington Heights involves
An addition either disappears into the house or announces itself forever, and which one you get is settled on the drawing board rather than at the paint store. Rooflines, window proportion, brick coursing, the way the new eave meets the old one. Get those right and nobody can find the seam. Get them wrong and everybody can.
Which is the good part, because the list of things an addition can be is long: a primary suite the plan never had, a second story on a lot too small to grow sideways, a sunroom, a bigger kitchen, a real home office, an in-law suite for a family that got closer together. Our team draws it, walks the permit through the city, and builds it.
In Arlington Heights
Where an addition goes here is usually settled by the trees before it is settled by the plan. These are oak-shaded streets with mature canopy over the back lots, and root zones, staging room and the drive are real constraints on a lot that already has a house on it. There is no historic overlay to argue with, so the exterior is genuinely yours to design — which is exactly why siting is worth the time. We walk the lot and place the addition before anyone draws an elevation.
Building in Arlington Heights
What the houses here actually ask for
1920s–1950s
Craftsman bungalows and Tudor cottages from the 1920s and '30s beside mid-century houses that have been updated since — a genuine mix rather than one era, on oak-shaded streets.
The ground on this side of town is thin over limestone, close enough to the surface that excavation is a real line item and seasonal movement mostly is not. Above it, three decades of building practice share the same streets.
What we'd actually do here
The moves that matter in Arlington Heights
Every neighborhood rewards something different. These are the three that come up on almost every home addition we take on.
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Get a pier plan, not a pier allowance
The most common soil reading here puts limestone as little as a foot down. An allowance for that is a guess with a number on it; a plan is what your footings actually need, settled before a contract.
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Let the neighbours set the front line
On an established block Fort Worth measures the required front yard off the nearest houses rather than the zoning table. Anything reaching toward the street is drawn against that line first.
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Match the era, not the neighborhood
A 1925 cottage and an updated 1955 house want different rooflines and a different way of meeting an existing wall. The addition gets detailed to the house it is joining.
Both numbers, one conversation
Remodel it, or buy the one you actually want?
The location and the trees are why people stay on this side of town. Whether this particular house is worth the work is a different question, and it deserves a real number on each side.
What the work would cost
Priced by the people who'd build it.
Design, drafting and construction, in house.
What it'd sell for as-is
Valued by the agents who sell this market.
6th Ave Homes is a licensed brokerage.
Most Fort Worth companies can only fill in one side.
We can price both sides, which almost nobody can. Our drafting team will tell you what your house will and won't give up, our builders price the work off those drawings, and our agents can tell you what it's worth as it stands. Sometimes the honest answer is that the house you're describing is already for sale two streets over. We'd rather say that than sell you a remodel that never quite gets there.
Built by 6th Ave Homes
Primary Suite Addition in Arlington Heights See the gallery →How it works
A home addition in Arlington Heights, in three steps
The people who draw it, price it, and build it share a hallway — which is why the plan you fall in love with is the plan that actually gets built.
Meet Up
We walk the house, listen to how you actually live in it, and talk honestly about budget before anyone draws a line.
Team Up
Our designers and drafting team put a real plan on paper — layout, selections, and a number you can build around.
Glasses Up
We build it, keep you in the loop, and hand back a home that feels like you. Pour something good.
Our work in Arlington Heights
Arlington Heights Primary Suite Addition
Primary Suite Addition
Growing families rarely need less house; they need the right rooms in the right places. In Arlington Heights, the 6th Ave Homes team added a primary suite that reads as original to the home rather than tacked on, so walk the photos to see it in full.
See the whole project
From the Arlington Heights Primary Suite Addition — see the full gallery
Not our first time on these streets
More of our work in Arlington Heights
Before you start
A home addition in Arlington Heights: the questions worth asking first
The answers that change a Arlington Heights project are usually the ones nobody asks until the drawings are done. We work through these first.
Nearby and related
- Whole-Home Remodel in Arlington Heights
- Home Additions in Mistletoe Heights
- Home Additions in Ryan Place
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Do I need historic approval to remodel in Arlington Heights?
No. Fort Worth designates fourteen local historic districts and Arlington Heights is not one of them, so exterior work here doesn't need a Certificate of Appropriateness and the standard city residential permit path applies. Private deed restrictions are a separate matter from city zoning and worth confirming for your own block — no city overlay is not the same as no restriction.
Are we going to hit rock?
Quite possibly, and it's the thing that surprises people here. The ground on this side of town is thin over limestone — bedrock can sit about a foot down — which changes the shape of a budget rather than the feasibility of a project. Excavation, trenching for new plumbing and pier work are where the risk lives; seasonal foundation movement is much less of a story on this ground than the reputation of North Texas clay would suggest. It's a per-parcel answer either way, and we'd far rather find it in the bid than in a change order.
How close to my property line can I build?
There's 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 by the base zoning district. It's a per-lot answer. We pull yours before we draw.
What decides whether we go up or out?
Usually the roof, once the survey has had its say. Some houses take a second story gracefully; others spend the rest of their lives looking like two houses stacked up, and no amount of trim fixes it. Going out is kinder to the elevation and harder on the yard. We walk it and tell you which trade you are actually making.
Is the thing we want actually an ADU?
If it needs its own kitchen and its own front door, probably yes, and zoning treats that as a different animal with different limits. An addition stays attached, shares the systems and the address, and is the right answer when you want more house rather than a second one.
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Thinking about a home addition in Arlington Heights?
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.