Master bath remodels in Overton Park
Most 1960s primary baths here are a tub, a vanity and a door. We enlarge them using the closet or hall beside them.
Our work · Overton Park Primary Bath Remodel
Design and construction
What a master bath remodel in Overton Park involves
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.
In Overton Park
Most primary baths in these 1966 houses were built with just a tub, a vanity and a door. Making the bath bigger usually means using space from the closet, a linen hall or the bedroom next to it. So the first thing we work out is which of those rooms gives up the space.
Design and drafting, in house
Your plans and selections come from our own design team
Our design and drafting team draws the floor plans and 3D views, and chooses the finishes with you. All of it is grounded in what things really cost to build.
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 Overton Park
What the houses here are like
1960s
Low-slung 1960s stock: one-story ranch houses with mid-century modern and two-story colonial mixed among them, on lots running about a third of an acre under mature canopy.
Big, low, slab-on-grade houses on lots wide enough to add on to the side, nearly all of them from a single postwar build-out. The soil under them changes from block to block, so we check it for each house rather than assuming.
- Median house
- 2,967 sq ft
- Median lot
- 14,664 sq ft
- Houses with a pool
- 246 of 691
one in four is over 3,594 square feet, and one in ten is over 4,274
118 feet across at the median, and 147 deep
more than one in three
Measured from City of Fort Worth GIS and Tarrant Appraisal District parcels, measured 2026-09-02
Rules for building in Overton Park
Overton Park has no historic overlay, so no design board reviews your exterior
The city’s zoning map records no historic overlay anywhere in the neighborhood. But the houses here went up in one period, at one scale, and close together, so an addition or a new front that doesn’t match stands out on the block. With no review board to check it, getting the exterior right is part of our design work.
A-10 One-Family~64%
- Min lot
- 10,000 sq ft
- Min width
- 60 ft
- Max coverage
- 40%
- Front yard
- 25 ft
A-21 One-Family~21%
- Min lot
- 21,780 sq ft
- Min width
- 85 ft
- Max coverage
- 30%
- Front yard
- 30 ft
A-5 One-Family~5%
- Min lot
- 5,000 sq ft
- Min width
- 50 ft
- Max coverage
- 50%
- Front yard
- 20 ft, 15 ft limited local
Where a row shows two front-yard figures, the minimum depends on how the city classifies your street. The lower one applies only on a limited local street. The street sign does not tell you the classification, so we look it up with the city before we draw.
About a fifth of the neighborhood has stricter zoning
About a fifth of Overton Park is zoned A-21 — a half-acre minimum, an 85-ft minimum width, 30% maximum coverage rather than 40%, and a 30-ft front yard rather than 25. Two houses a few doors apart can fall under different limits, and that changes how big a wing or a second story can be. We look up the zoning on your parcel before anything is drawn.
Measured from City of Fort Worth GIS and Tarrant Appraisal District parcels, measured 2026-09-02; Fort Worth Zoning Ordinance §§ 4.702, 4.703 and 4.705, and § 6.101; A-5 front yard from §4.705(c)(1), read 2026-09-25 (edition 2026 S-20)
Cost in Overton Park
$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 Overton Park, 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 changes the price
- 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 pieced together from other rooms. 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
- Set aside a contingency
- 10–15% of budgetfor what is behind the walls
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Overton Park Primary Bath See this project →Our advice
What to plan for in Overton Park
These are the things that come up on almost every master bath remodel we do here.
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We have remodeled these suites before
Four hundred of these houses went up in one decade, so many primary suites here share the same layout. We have opened up several of them, so we usually know what is behind the wall you want to move.
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Make the bath bigger without adding on
The median house here is a shade under 3,000 square feet, and most of that went to bedrooms and closets. A bigger bath can usually be built from that space, inside the walls you already have.
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If you have a pool, plan where the dumpster goes
On a lot this size the pool often sits right where the materials and the dumpster would go. It is easy to solve when we plan for it at the start of the job, and it costs time when we don’t.
How it works
A master bath remodel in Overton Park, in three steps
The people who design it, price it and build it work alongside each other, so the plan you approve is the plan that gets built.
Meet Up
We walk the house, listen to how you live in it, and talk through the 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.
Stay or go
Remodel this one, or sell it as it stands?
These are big 1960s houses on lots of about a third of an acre, under a mature canopy.
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 our agents, who sell homes here.
6th Ave Homes is a licensed brokerage.
A remodeler can price the work. An agent can price the house. We do both.
You get two numbers. We price the remodel cost-plus, line by line, and our agents price the house as it stands. Because both answers come out of the same office, neither one is a pitch for the other.
Our work in Overton Park
Overton Park Primary Bath Remodel
Primary Bath Remodel
Overton Park is the kind of place people stay, so this primary bath got finishes built to last. The 6th Ave Homes team gave it a clean, transitional remodel with a walk-in shower that won’t tire. See the craftsmanship up close.
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More of our work in Overton Park
The neighborhood
Overton Park was the Edwards family’s ranch, and most of its houses went up between 1955 and 1968.
Lemuel and Elizabeth Overton Edwards settled a 640-acre Peters Colony grant on the Clear Fork in 1848, a year before the Army put a camp on the bluff that became Fort Worth. The neighborhood is named for their son, Caswell Overton Edwards, born on the ranch in 1851. The family’s Cassco Land Company began developing the ranch in the mid-1950s, and most of these houses went up between 1955 and 1968.
Schools are a big reason families stay here. Overton Park Elementary was built to take the pressure off Tanglewood Elementary and runs PK through 5; then McLean 6th Grade, a Fort Worth ISD campus that serves sixth grade and nothing else; then McLean Middle and Paschal. A child can go from pre-K through high school without the family moving. That is why a lot of our work here is changing a house to fit a family that has grown, so they can stay in it.
Shopping, churches and Colonial Country Club are all close by. South Hulen runs the western boundary, with the mall on it since 1977 and First Command’s headquarters at the top of it. Arborlawn United Methodist is on Briarhaven, and it was Overton Park United Methodist until it merged with Westcliff in 2005. Colonial Country Club is a couple of miles northeast, and the PGA Tour has played the same course there since 1946. And the Shops at Clearfork opened in 2017 on Edwards ranch land, the same ranch the houses were built on.
Traces of the old ranch still show up in the lawns. The neighborhood association’s own history says overgrown yards here send up stalks of KR and Silver Bluestem through the St. Augustine. The native pasture grass still grows back after seventy years of watering and mowing.
Nearby places
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Overton Park
3500 Overton Park Drive East. A creek runs its length into the Clear Fork, with 1.76 miles of trail beside it.
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Arborlawn United Methodist
5001 Briarhaven Road. The 1970 sanctuary is the family life center now, and the congregation built around it.
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Overton Park Elementary
4865 Briarhaven Road. The 2017 bond paid for it, to relieve overcrowding at Tanglewood Elementary.
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McLean 6th Grade
3201 South Hills Avenue, in what used to be Bluebonnet Elementary.
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Colonial Country Club
Founded 1936 by Marvin Leonard, and it hosted the U.S. Open five years later.
- Overton Park Drive East
- Ranch View Road
- Autumn Drive
- Cloudview Road
- Lands End Street
- Black Canyon Road
- Candlelite Lane
- Summercrest Court
- Springwillow Road
- Barkridge Trail
- Thistle Lane
- Fieldcrest Drive
- Arroyo Road
- Boulder Run Street
- Echo Trail
What that means for your master bath remodel
In a lot of Overton Park houses, everything works except the primary bath. Because the schools here run from pre-K to graduation without a move, many owners remodel the bath instead of selling the house. We have remodeled primary baths in this neighborhood before, and that is the work this page covers.
Every bathroom we’ve finished in Overton Park, with photographs, is on dfwbathrooms.com.
Project photos
Photos of the finished rooms
Before you start
Questions about a master bath remodel in Overton Park
We go through these questions with you before any drawings start.
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Do I need historic approval to remodel in Overton Park?
No. Overton Park carries no historic overlay anywhere in the neighborhood, so there’s no Certificate of Appropriateness step and no design review board. Private deed restrictions are a separate question and are worth confirming for your block.
Can the bathroom layout actually change, or only the finishes?
It can change. These are slab-on-grade houses, so moving a drain means opening concrete — real work that we schedule and price, and routine for houses of this age. Changing the layout is usually what makes the bath easier to use; new finishes on their own only make it look newer. The layout gets drawn before anybody puts a number on it.
Where does the extra square footage for a primary suite come from?
Almost always from inside the footprint you already have. A 1966 suite typically has a shallow closet, a linen hall and a bedroom next door that has become an office. Redrawing that group is cheaper and faster than adding to the outside of the house, and it doesn’t touch the roofline, the foundation or a single tree.
Can you do the bathroom and the closet at the same time?
Usually yes, and usually you should. They share a wall and often a plumbing chase, so doing them together costs less than doing them a year apart, and you end up with a full primary suite.
We might do a bigger remodel in a year or two. Should the bath wait?
It depends on whether the bigger project would move the walls you are about to tile. If it would, waiting saves real money. If it would not, there is no reason to keep putting off the room you start every morning in. We will look at both scopes and say which one you are in.
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Thinking about a master bath remodel in Overton Park?
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 price on it before anyone signs anything.