Your closet is the missing half of your bathroom. Master Bath Remodel in Overton Park
Our work · Overton Park Primary Bath Remodel
Design, drawn and built
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
The primary bath in a 1966 house didn't get short-changed on square footage. It got short-changed on where the square footage went. The bedroom took it, the closet took a hallway's worth of it, and the bath was left with a tub, a vanity and a door, because that was the brief. So the first question here isn't how much room you have. It's which of the rooms you already own is the one you're actually short of.
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 Overton Park
What the houses here actually ask for
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 give a plan somewhere to go, nearly all of them from a single postwar build-out. The ground under them changes from block to block, which is the one thing here that will not generalize.
- Median house
- 2,967 sq ft
- Median lot
- 14,664 sq ft
- Houses with a pool
- 246 of 691
a quarter run past 3,594, and the top tenth past 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
The ground rules in Overton Park
No historic overlay on any part of Overton Park — the city's zoning map records none across the whole neighborhood.
What governs the outside of a house here is the block, not a review board. One build-out, one scale, and neighbors close enough to read the difference, which makes the elevation a design question rather than a permitting one, and a harder one to get right.
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
A fifth of this neighborhood is on a different rulebook from the rest of it
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 be measured against different numbers, and the difference lands squarely on what a wing or a second story is allowed to be. It is a parcel answer, and it gets pulled 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
What we'd actually do here
The moves that matter in Overton Park
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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The suites repeat, and that's good news
Four hundred of these houses went up in one decade, and the 1960s suites we've opened here keep coming apart the same way. The wall you're thinking about moving is one we've stood in front of a few streets over.
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Your bath is small because your bedroom isn't
The median house here runs a shade under 3,000 square feet, and the 1960s brief spent nearly all of it on bedrooms. The room you want already exists inside the footprint. It's currently three other things.
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A pool changes the schedule, not the scope
On a lot this size the pool is usually sitting exactly where the material and the dumpster were going to go. A known problem with a known answer, and worth naming in week one instead of week six.
How it works
A master bath remodel in Overton Park, 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.
Built by 6th Ave Homes
Overton Park Primary Bath See the project →Both numbers, one conversation
Remodel this one, or sell it to somebody who scrapes it?
A third of an acre under a 1966 house is what a scrape-and-build shops for. Twelve of the 691 houses here have gone that way since 2000.
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.
Two numbers, not an opinion. 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.
See the whole projectInside the work
The rooms, up close
Not our first time on these streets
More of our work in Overton Park
The neighborhood
The last cattle came off this ground in 1954.
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.
The school run is most of the reason people stay put 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. That's the whole run without moving, which is why so much of the work here is about making a house fit a family that grew rather than finding a different house.
The edges are what make it livable. 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, which is to say on the same ground as the houses.
You can still read the ranch in the lawns. The neighborhood association's own history says overgrown yards here throw up stalks of KR and Silver Bluestem through the St. Augustine. Seventy years of watering and mowing, and the pasture is still coming back.
What's around it
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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 built it, to take the overcrowding off Tanglewood.
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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
Nobody moves out of Overton Park over a bathroom. They live with it, usually for years, because the rest of the house works and the bath is the one room that doesn't. A family can run this district from pre-K to a diploma without changing an address, so the calculation almost never ends in a For Sale sign. That's the job here: not a nicer version of the room you have, but the room the house always had space for.
Before you start
A master bath remodel in Overton Park: the questions worth asking first
The answers that change a Overton Park 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 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, scheduled and priced, and completely routine in this era of house. It is usually the whole difference between a bath that looks newer and one that finally works. 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 gets you the suite instead of the room.
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 real number on it — before anyone signs anything.