Master bath remodels in Ridglea Hills
The bath you want usually fits inside the walls you have. Cost depends on how far the plumbing moves.
Our work · Ridglea Hills Bath Remodel
Design, drawn and built
What a master bath remodel in Ridglea Hills 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 Ridglea Hills
This is a plan problem rather than a space problem, and a plan problem is the cheaper of the two to have. What it costs turns on how far the water has to travel from where the last plumber left it.
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 Ridglea Hills
What the houses here actually ask for
1950–1970
Post-war ranches, traditional brick, and larger custom houses on the elevated lots — most of the neighborhood is fifty to seventy years old.
The grade is the site condition here, not scenery. Sloped and elevated lots mean split levels, stepped foundations, retaining and drainage that have to be designed rather than assumed — and an estimate that ignores your slope is not an estimate for your house.
- Median lot
- 15,000 sq ft
- Median house
- 2,351 sq ft
- Houses with a pool
- 1 in 4
104 ft wide by 155 deep — three times the width of a pre-war Fort Worth lot
a quarter are over 2,996, and the top tenth pass 3,769
356 of the 1,412 single-family parcels record one
Measured from City of Fort Worth GIS and Tarrant Appraisal District parcels, measured 2026-09-01
The ground rules in Ridglea Hills
Ridglea Hills is not a historic district. There is no design review here.
Fort Worth designates fourteen local historic districts and this is not one of them, so no Certificate of Appropriateness stands between you and a permit. Private deed restrictions are a separate question and worth confirming for your section — no city overlay is not the same as no restriction.
A-5 One-Family~63% of the land here
- Minimum lot
- 5,000 sq ft
- Minimum width
- 50 ft
- Maximum coverage
- 50%
- Front yard
- 20 ft
The grade decides more than the zoning does
Almost every lot here clears the minimums with room to spare — the median is 15,000 square feet against a 5,000 requirement, so coverage and width are rarely what stops a project. The hill is. Elevation across the neighborhood runs from about 590 to 770 feet, and on a foundation that steps with it, where a drain can run shapes the plan before any setback does.
Measured from City of Fort Worth GIS and Tarrant Appraisal District parcels, measured 2026-09-01
What it runs in Ridglea Hills
$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 Ridglea Hills, 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
The bath · Built by 6th Ave Homes
Ridglea Country Club Kitchen Remodel Step inside this one →What we'd actually do here
The moves that matter in Ridglea Hills
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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Redraw the plan before the tile
Post-war ranches gave these baths real square footage and then divided it badly. The plan is what makes the room feel new; the tile only makes it look new.
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Confirm where the plumbing can move
The terrain left a lot of these houses on stepped or split-level foundations, and that decides where a drain can run — and therefore which layouts are real.
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Know what the street will carry
A budget outruns a block one good decision at a time, and this is a street where that happens quietly — a wall moved here, a better window there. Somebody should tell you where the ceiling is before you reach it, and most of the people you would ask have a reason not to.
How it works
A master bath remodel in Ridglea Hills, 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
Remodel it, or sell it?
In a neighborhood where the comp next door is a remodel, not a teardown, the question deserves both answers.
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're built to answer both halves: our agents know what these houses sell for, and our design and construction teams can price what yours could become. Once both numbers are on the table, decide — and we'll tell you which way we'd go, and why.
Our work in Ridglea Hills
Ridglea Hills Bath Remodel
Bath Remodel
This Ridglea Hills bath needed to catch up to the rest of the home. The 6th Ave Homes team remodeled it into a calm, transitional space that finally fits, and the finished room is waiting in the gallery.
See the whole projectNot our first time on these streets
More of our work in Ridglea Hills
The neighborhood
Ridglea is a family of neighborhoods. The Hills got the terrain.
Morris E. Berney and Bernie L. Anderson platted Ridglea in 1928 and put their names on streets and a park that are still here. The Depression stopped them, the war filled the flat ground with bungalows for bomber-plant workers, and in the late forties Luther Bros. and Wilson picked up the addition and finished the job. A.C. Luther ended up so identified with the place that people called him Mr. Ridglea, and his own advertising promised, without much modesty, that Ridglea Has Everything.
Ridglea Hills is the part that got the ground. Luther began platting it in 1946 and kept running Angus cattle on the lots he had not sold, moving the fences inward as they went. The name is a description rather than a flourish — ridge, plus lea, the old word for a meadow — and the street plan follows the terrain instead of flattening it.
The elevation inside this one neighborhood runs from roughly 590 feet to roughly 770 feet. Streets climb and bend, driveways pitch, and the houses step with the grade. It is why Ridglea Hills looks nothing like the flat grid neighborhoods a couple of miles east, and it is why a project here starts at the site rather than the plan.
There is a ten-acre private lake in the middle of it. The plat called for houses on that ground, but a natural spring turned it into water instead, and the home sites that ring it have dock access. At Christmas the lights come off the surface and people drive in from across town to see it.
What's around it
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Ridglea Hills Elementary
Pre-K through fifth, more than sixty years old, and it feeds Monnig Middle and then Arlington Heights High. 6817 Cumberland Road.
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Ridglea Hills Park
Six acres of trails, shelters and grills right beside the school. The city bought it in 1960 and named it the next year.
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Luther Lake
Ten private acres in the middle of the neighborhood, lit up every December.
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Ridglea Country Club
Two courses. The club dates its opening to 1954; the South Course and its clubhouse followed in 1967.
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The Ridglea Theater
A 1950 movie house with a stone tower, on the National Register since 2011 and still booking shows.
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The Fuller House
Walls of glass and rooms cut to odd geometry, designed by A. Quincy Jones in 1953, on a street of brick ranches.
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Gordon Boswell Flowers
In Fort Worth since 1919 and on this stretch of Camp Bowie since 1954, in the first of the buildings Luther put up.
- Cumberland Road
- Stonedale Road
- Bernie Anderson Avenue
- Westridge Avenue
- Piedmont Road
- Shannon Drive
- Lackland Road
- Vickery Boulevard
- Southwest Boulevard
- Camp Bowie Boulevard
What that means for your master bath remodel
A primary bath in Ridglea Hills is a post-war ranch problem. The square footage is usually already there — these houses are wide — but it is chopped into a hall bath, a small primary and three closets sized for 1958 wardrobes. The work is almost always taking a wall out and redrawing the whole back corner of the house rather than retiling what is standing. The grade decides a lot of it — on a foundation that steps with the hill, where the drains can run shapes the plan before it ever shows up as a budget line.
Inside the work
The rooms, up close
Before you start
A master bath remodel in Ridglea Hills: the questions worth asking first
The answers that change a Ridglea Hills 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 Ridglea Hills?
No. Ridglea Hills is not among Fort Worth's fourteen local historic districts, so no Certificate of Appropriateness is required. Confirm any private deed restrictions for your section — the absence of a city overlay is not the absence of a restriction.
Does the slope on my lot change what a remodel costs?
For work inside the house, rarely. The moment a project touches the exterior, whether that is an addition, a rear extension or outdoor living, the grade stops being scenery. It becomes a line item: stepped foundations, retaining, and drainage that has to be designed rather than assumed. An estimate that ignores your grade is not an estimate for your house.
The house is split level. Does that limit where the bathroom can go?
It constrains it, and it is the first thing worth checking rather than the last. On a stepped foundation the answer is usually yes but not free: relocating waste line means opening a floor structure that was never designed to be opened, and the cost of that is a real number rather than a rounding error. It is not something you want to discover after you have fallen in love with a plan, so we confirm it before we show you one.
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 Ridglea Hills?
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.