Master bath remodels in Crestline
1920s Tudors sit beside 1980s originals and new builds. Which you own sets the bath's scope, so we check first.
Our work · Crestline Primary Bath Remodel
Design, drawn and built
What a master bath remodel in Crestline involves
In Crestline
The constraint here is almost never the finishes; it is which house you have. In the interwar houses the baths are small and the plumbing behind the walls was sized for a single bathroom and no upstairs laundry; a 1980s original is a builder-grade room with space to take back. Whether the room can grow, and where the water can go, is what the scope actually turns on.
This is the one room worth taking on its own. Partly because you start every morning in it, and partly because in a house that has been fixed everywhere else, it is almost always the thing still waiting.
Layout, plumbing moved where the room needs it, tile and stone chosen against the floors and trim you already have, glass, lighting, ventilation that actually clears steam. Drawn by our team, built by our crew, on the same cost-plus billing as a project ten times the size.
Design and drafting, in house
The drawings come from the people who have to build them
Plans, elevations and selections are done here, by the team that will be on site — so the thing you approve on paper is the thing that gets built, and the number under it is real.
Level two
The bath drawn at 10'9" x 7'9" with the closet that feeds it, dimensioned against the bedrooms it serves — which is how you find out early whether the room can actually grow.
The room in 3D
Vanity runs, mirror and sconce placement, and where the doors actually swing — drawn to scale before a single tile is ordered.
The selections
Held next to the floor and the trim you already have, not picked from a screen.
Renovating in Crestline
What the houses here actually ask for
1920s on
Cottages, Tudors and bungalows laid out around the golf course from 1911 on, 1980s houses, and a newer layer, nearly a third built since 2000, on the same streets.
An established pocket close to Camp Bowie and the Cultural District, on ground with real grade to it. The older houses carry interwar framing and plumbing under a century of small additions and re-routes, and nearly a third of the houses here went up after 2000.
- Median house
- 3,265 sq ft
- Median year built
- 1980
- Median lot
- 7,500 sq ft
a quarter are over 4,468, and the top tenth pass 5,643
and 31% were built since 2000, which is not what the street looks like
52 ft wide at the median, but the top quarter run past 100
Measured from City of Fort Worth GIS and Tarrant Appraisal District parcels, measured 2026-09-01
The ground rules in Crestline
Crestline is not a historic district, and several individual houses are landmarked anyway.
The neighborhood carries no district overlay, so most work here takes the standard permit path. Individually designated properties are the exception and they are an address question, not a neighborhood one — which is why the parcel gets pulled before anything is drawn.
A-5 One-Family~83% of the land here
- Minimum lot
- 5,000 sq ft
- Minimum width
- 50 ft
- Maximum coverage
- 50%
- Front yard
- 20 ft
This is a rebuild neighborhood, and the numbers say so
The median house dates to 1980 and nearly a third have gone up since 2000, on lots whose widths run from under 50 feet to over 100. That mix is why the remodel-or-rebuild question is live on almost every project here in a way it is not two neighborhoods over — and why the comp next door is worth reading before the plan is.
Measured from City of Fort Worth GIS and Tarrant Appraisal District parcels, measured 2026-09-01
What it runs in Crestline
$63,000–$120,000
a primary bath at about 100 square feet at the low end, closer to 190 at the top.
That per-square-foot number looks high next to a national calculator, and it is not. Those averages are pulled down by vanity swaps. A bathroom packs every trade in the house — plumbing, waterproofing, tile, glass, electrical, ventilation — into forty to a hundred square feet, so the cost per foot runs several times what the rest of the house does.
Ranges for a master bath remodel in Crestline, not a quote. Before there are drawings, a range is the only honest number anyone can give you — the spread between a high and a low bid on the same job is routinely 20% or more. We bill cost-plus, so when there is a plan you see the actual materials, labor and subcontractor costs, plus our overhead and profit, rather than a single figure with the unknowns padded into it.
What moves it
- How far the water has to travel from where the last plumber left it. Moving a drain is a floor-structure job, not a plumbing job, and it is usually the difference between the two ends of this range.
- Whether the room already exists or has to be assembled. In a pre-war house a primary bath is almost always made out of an original bath, a closet and a stretch of hall, and how many of those pieces have to move decides the number.
- Whether the layout changes at all. Same footprint with new everything sits near the low end; walls moving puts you at the top.
- Finish level, and it is the lever you control most. Stock vanity and porcelain against custom millwork, stone and frameless glass is most of the spread once the plan is settled.
- Per square foot
- about $630
- How long it takes
- 8–10 weeks
- Fort Worth permit fees
- $1,200–$4,000
- Carry a contingency
- 10–15% of budgetfor what is behind the walls
Built by 6th Ave Homes
Mira Vista Primary Bath Refresh Step inside this one →What we'd actually do here
The moves that matter in Crestline
Every neighborhood rewards something different. These are the three that come up on almost every master bath remodel we take on.
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Find out which decade you actually own
The median house here was built in 1980 and nearly a third have gone up since 2000, on a street that reads as older than either. A 1980 primary bath is a builder-grade original with a tub-shower and one vanity; a 2005 one already has a suite. Those are two different projects with two different budgets, and the front elevation will not tell you which one you have.
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The house is big. Make the bathroom act like it.
The median house in Crestline is 3,265 square feet and a quarter run past 4,468. In the older and 1980s stock, the primary bath is usually undersized for a house that size, and the room to fix that is a closet or the end of an adjoining bedroom rather than an addition. We draw the borrowed square footage before we draw a single fixture.
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Design against the new build next door
This is a rebuild neighborhood — the comp on your block may be new construction. A bathroom that only changes finishes will not read as finished next to it, and the layout is where the difference gets made. Moving a drain or a wall in a house from the 1980s is ordinary work, and it is usually the whole gap between a bath that looks better and one that competes.
How it works
A master bath remodel in Crestline, 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.
Both numbers, one conversation
Worth another renovation, or time to sell?
Many Crestline houses have been renovated at least once — so the next project has to earn its keep.
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.
A remodeler can price the work. An agent can price the house. We do both.
We can put both numbers in front of you: what the work would cost, and what our agents think the house sells for with and without it. One conversation, both answers, no pressure toward either.
Our work in Crestline
Crestline Primary Bath Remodel
Primary Bath Remodel
In Crestline, this primary bath needed to trade clutter for calm. The 6th Ave Homes design and construction teams gutted it and rebuilt a bright, transitional space that feels like a place to exhale, and the photos tell the rest.
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This work, across Fort Worth
The neighborhood
A country club that sold the lots to pay for its own clubhouse.
The first thing built on this ground was not a house on Crestline Road. It was a cabin. Khleber Miller Van Zandt bought roughly six hundred acres of the west side between 1871 and 1873, and Historic Fort Worth calls the Van Zandt Cottage the only cabin in Fort Worth still standing on the ground it was built on — while cautioning that its documentary history is complicated and a 1930s restoration altered it substantially. It went on the National Register in 2012.
The neighborhood itself exists because a country club needed money. The River Crest Company incorporated in 1910 to buy a tract of about 630 acres, and when River Crest Country Club opened on May 6, 1911, opening day included a sale of the home sites around it. The streets bend the way they do because they were laid around a golf course.
Everyone calls it Rivercrest. On paper it is Crestline, and the two names do not cover quite the same ground. Listing sites blur the difference, which is why the address matters more than the label.
Crestline has two faces. Up near Crestline Road and the club edge it turns formal — deep lots, stone walls, heavy landscaping. Closer to Camp Bowie the scale tightens into 1920s and 30s cottages, Tudors and bungalows with later ranches and infill between them. Either way the interior stays quiet, and the whole thing reads accumulated rather than planned.
The best houses here were built by people who could afford an architect, and the neighborhood has been careful with them ever since. Renovate one and the block notices which one you did.
Camp Bowie Boulevard is the southern boundary and the reason this neighborhood can run an errand on foot. It has been paved in Thurber brick since the twenties and carries a state historical marker on the paving itself. Kincaid's is a few blocks down: a 1946 grocery whose head butcher started grilling burgers in the back in 1964, with the concrete floors and the neon still in place.
What's around it
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River Crest Country Club
Open since 1911, and it paid for its own clubhouse by selling the lots around it. 1501 Western Avenue.
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The Van Zandt Cottage
Historic Fort Worth calls it the only cabin still standing on the ground it was built on. A 1930s restoration altered it heavily. National Register, 2012.
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The Baldridge House
A Colonial Revival landmark attributed to Sanguinet and Staats, raised on ten lots a banker assembled in 1913.
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The Taylor-Roeser House
Begun around 1916 in rough stone, with a low wall that runs the eye down to the gates at Alta Drive.
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The Alta Drive gates
From the era when a development announced itself with a gate. It still does the job.
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Veterans Memorial Park
The triangle where five streets meet Camp Bowie. A city park since 1923, with a granite memorial to the 36th Division and a bronze called Duty.
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Kincaid's Hamburgers
A 1946 grocery whose butcher started cooking burgers in 1964 and never stopped. 4901 Camp Bowie.
- Crestline Road
- Western Avenue
- Alta Drive
- Virginia Place
- Byers Avenue
- Merrick Street
- Clover Lane
- Rivercrest Drive
- Dorothy Lane
- Washington Terrace
- Thomas Place
- Lafayette Avenue
What that means for your master bath remodel
Crestline gets renovated and rebuilt on the same streets, and that changes what a primary bath here actually is. In the older houses it is a fitting problem: two sinks, a real shower and a closet inside a plan drawn in the twenties or thirties, around plaster, cast iron and a stair that is not moving. In a 1980s original it is a builder-grade room that finally gets its share of a big house. Either way, the finished room has to hold its own next to the new build down the block.
Inside the work
The rooms, up close
Before you start
A master bath remodel in Crestline: the questions worth asking first
The answers that change a Crestline project are usually the ones nobody asks until the drawings are done. We work through these first.
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Do I need historic approval to renovate in Crestline?
No. Crestline is not among Fort Worth's fourteen local historic districts, so there is no Certificate of Appropriateness step. Deed restrictions are a separate question worth confirming for your block.
The house has been remodeled before. Does that help or hurt?
Usually a bit of both, and it is worth knowing which before you plan. A 1990s renovation often left the supply lines fine and the venting improvised, or moved a wall without moving what runs inside it. We open a wall and look before we price the finishes, rather than after.
How long does a primary bath take in a Crestline house?
Plan on the demolition telling you something. Whatever the last renovation left behind is visible within about a week, and that is the point where a schedule stops being a guess. We would rather revise a number at week two than discover it at week eight.
What if the bathroom we want is bigger than the space we have?
Then part of it is an addition. Stealing a few feet from a closet, a hall, or a bedroom is common and often enough. When it is not, a primary suite addition is a different project with a different number, and you should hear that before demolition rather than during it.
Is a fixture swap enough, or does the whole room have to come out?
If a new vanity and a paint color would fix it, we will tell you so and you should go do that. A bath we take on is a full remodel: plumbing and electrical relocated, waterproofing done properly, tile set to a plan. That is the room we are built for.
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Thinking about a master bath remodel in Crestline?
Tell us about the house and the room that isn't working. We'll walk it with you, tell you what we'd do with it, and put a real number on it — before anyone signs anything.