Whole-home remodels in Aledo
An Aledo address can be the city, Willow Park, an Annetta town or county land. We confirm which before we draw.
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Design and construction
What a whole-home remodel in Aledo involves
Good street, good bones, and a floor plan drawn for how families lived a generation or two ago. That is the house we take on. Walls come out, the house gets a primary suite it never had, and the kitchen stops being a hallway everyone walks through.
Design, drawings, permits and the build, on cost-plus billing so you can watch the budget as it moves rather than reading about it afterward. You keep the house you chose, with a floor plan that works for how you live now.
In Aledo
A whole-home remodel here starts with a question that doesn’t come up in Fort Worth: who has jurisdiction over your lot. An Aledo mailing address can mean the City of Aledo, or Willow Park, or one of the Annetta towns, or Fort Worth out at Walsh, or no city at all — That makes three possible permitting paths: the City of Aledo, another city or town, or no city at all. Inside Aledo there’s a Unified Development Code with real design standards in it. In another city there’s that city’s ordinance. On unincorporated county land Parker County publishes that there is no zoning and that it issues no building permits, so the binding constraints become the plat, the deed restrictions, the flood hazard map and the septic capacity. We settle which of the three you’re in on day one, because it changes the drawings, the schedule and who signs off.
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.
The floor plan
Every room dimensioned, every window and door size marked, ceiling heights called out — the drawing the crew builds from.
The room in 3D
How the rooms connect once the wall between them is gone — drawn to scale, not sketched.
The selections
Stone, tile, timber and cloth, chosen together and seen in daylight before anything is ordered.
Renovating in Aledo
What the houses here are like
Platted 1882, built after 1980
In town, ordinary subdivision lots at about a fifth of an acre. Outside any city that taxes it, the median runs over an acre, with the house set back off a county road and a septic field somewhere in the yard.
Aledo is really two different housing markets. Inside the Aledo city limits it’s a normal small-town subdivision market on a fifth of an acre with city water and sewer. Outside them the median improved lot runs over an acre and most houses are on a septic system. And outside the city limits can mean several different places: Willow Park or an Annetta town, each with its own ordinance, or county land with no city government at all.
- Median lot, in town
- 0.20 acre
- Median lot, outside any taxing city
- 1.17 acres
- Inside the city limits
- 2,441 of 18,576
across the 1,284 improved parcels inside the city limits that carry a recorded acreage
across 5,751 improved parcels carrying a recorded acreage; the three Annetta towns are in this figure, incorporated but levying no property tax
Aledo ISD parcels. The rest fall under Willow Park, the Annetta towns, Fort Worth or the county
Measured from Parker County Appraisal District parcel records, read 2026-09-02 via scripts/parker-parcel-profile.mjs
Rules for building in Aledo
One Aledo ISD parcel in eight is inside the City of Aledo. Check which city, town or county governs yours.
Aledo ISD covers about 130 square miles. The City of Aledo covers under three. In between sit Willow Park, the three Annetta towns, a slice of Fort Worth around Walsh, and a very large amount of Parker County that belongs to no city at all. Which of those your address falls in decides your entire permitting path, and your ZIP code won’t tell you which one it is.
R-1 Single Familynot published
- Min lot
- 7,000 sq ft
- Min width
- 50 ft
- Max coverage
- 60%
- Front yard
- 20 ft
AG Agriculturenot published
- Min lot
- 2 acres
- Min width
- 100 ft
- Max coverage
- 10%
- Front yard
- 35 ft, or 25 on a local street
In the unincorporated county there is no zoning at all, and no county building permit
Parker County publishes both of those plainly: there are no zoning requirements in the unincorporated county, and the county does not issue building permits or certificates of occupancy. What it does regulate is the septic system and anything in a flood hazard area, and the fire marshal handles life safety on commercial work. That does not mean there are no limits. They come from the plat, the deed restrictions and the septic drain field instead, and if you ever sell or refinance, a lender may ask for paperwork no office ever issued.
Measured from City of Aledo Unified Development Code, published 2025-09-30; Parker County Permitting Department; Parker County Appraisal District parcel records, read 2026-09-02
Cost in Aledo
$150,000–$750,000
a smaller house with mostly surface work at the low end, a large house taken down to the studs at the top.
Ranges for a whole-home remodel in Aledo, 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
- What is behind the walls. Two houses with identical floor plans can carry very different budgets depending on the age and condition of the wiring, plumbing and ductwork — and none of that is readable from the curb, which is why we walk the whole house before we price anything.
- How much of the plan is actually structural. Some of the walls in the way are holding up the house and some are not, and that difference is often the biggest swing in the budget. The answer comes from the framing, not the floor plan, and an engineer confirms it before anything comes down.
- Square footage, straightforwardly. This is the one service where the range is mostly a size range.
- Whether you live in it. Phasing a remodel around an occupied house adds time and protection work that an empty one does not need.
- Per square foot
- $100–$300
- How long it takes
- 5–12 months
- Set aside a contingency
- 15–20% of budgeton a down-to-studs remodel, we would not go lower
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What to plan for in Aledo
These are the things that come up on almost every whole-home remodel we do here.
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Confirm who governs your lot first
Three in eight Aledo ISD parcels sit inside a city that taxes them, and most of the rest are in no city at all. The exception is the Annetta towns. They are incorporated and zoned but collect no property tax, so the tax records don’t list them as cities.
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Check the septic system before adding bedrooms
Out at Remuda Ranch Estates or Covered Bridge Canyon the septic drain field was sized for the house as it was first built. Before adding bedrooms or a guest suite, we check whether the septic system can handle them. Aledo allows septic inside the city too, but only on an acre or more and a thousand feet from a sewer connection.
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Find where the plat allows an addition
Inside the city an R-1 lot gives you 60% coverage and a twenty-foot front yard. On unincorporated county land there’s no setback table at all — just the recorded plat, the deed restrictions on it, and Parker County’s flood hazard map. We pull all three before anyone draws a wall.
How it works
A whole-home remodel in Aledo, 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 the house you have, or build new?
Out here the lot is big enough that building new is a real option.
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 because our drafting team and our agents sit in the same office, we can also tell you what the lot is worth with the house on it and what it would take to start over. Out here, building new is a real alternative. When it makes more sense, we will tell you, instead of selling you a remodel that won’t give you what you want.
Our work in Aledo
Aledo Mid-Century Renovation
Whole-Home Remodel
In Aledo, one family wanted their home to feel like theirs again without losing its mid-century-modern bones. The 6th Ave Homes design and construction teams took it to the studs and rebuilt every room around the way they live now. See how it came together below.
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The neighborhood
Aledo has been a town since 1882, and its high school has won twelve state football titles.
Aledo started as Parker’s Station and got renamed for a railroad man’s home town in Illinois. The post office opened under the new name in 1882. By 1915 a steam cotton gin, a corn mill, a bank and twenty-one businesses made it the retail center for this end of the county, and the original townsite is still on the plat books as Aledo Original Town.
It stayed small for a long time. The city incorporated in 1963 and still had about a thousand people in 1980. Then Fort Worth kept growing west: 1,169 by 1990, 1,726 by 2000, and 4,858 at the 2020 census. So almost every house for sale inside the city limits today was built after 1980.
The school district is the main reason people move here, and the state’s own ratings back that up. In the Texas Education Agency’s 2025 ratings, after appeal, Aledo ISD scored an A at 92 out of 100. The same file has it at A/91 in 2024, A/90 in 2023 and A/94 in 2022. The state’s 2025 count shows about 8,400 students across twelve campuses.
Aledo football is the other reason people know the name. The University Interscholastic League’s own archive records twelve football state championships: 1998, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022 and 2023.
The town has a downtown again. The city calls it the Front Street district and names Press Café, the Aledo Diner and Dayne’s Craft Barbecue as its anchors — Dayne’s landed at number seven on Texas Monthly’s 2025 top fifty barbecue list. There are more than twelve miles of hiking and mountain-biking trail in the Parks of Aledo Trails, and a community-built bike skills area called The Pit.
The subdivision names show what the land was used for before the houses: Remuda Ranch Estates, Bear Country, Covered Bridge Canyon, Stone Creek Farms, Split Rail Estates, Mesa Grande, McDavid Springs. Two of them, Airport Addition and Bourland Field Estates, are named for the airfield.
Nearby places
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Aledo High School
Twelve football state championships in the UIL’s own archive, the most recent in 2023.
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The Front Street district
The historic core, and the part of town the city markets as walkable.
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Dayne’s Craft Barbecue
Number seven on Texas Monthly’s 2025 top fifty barbecue list.
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Parks of Aledo Trails
More than twelve miles of interconnected hiking and mountain-biking trail across more than 135 acres.
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The Pit
A mountain-bike skills area that local residents built themselves.
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Bearcat Park
205 FM 5, on the southern edge of the city limits.
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FM 1187 and FM 5
The two farm-to-market roads most daily trips here run on. The Handbook of Texas still locates the town by FM 1187.
- Front Street
- Elm Street
- Queen Street
- James Street
- Aledo Trail
- Old Annetta Road
- Bailey Ranch Road
- Bankhead Highway
- Bear Creek Road
- Annetta Centerpoint Road
- Kelly Road
- McDaniel Road
What that means for your whole-home remodel
Many people move here for the school district and a big lot, then live in a house that wasn’t built for the way they use it. That is most of the remodeling work out here. What makes it different from the same remodel in Fort Worth is who sets the rules. Your lot may have no zoning district, no city inspector and no certificate of occupancy. Instead the limits come from the plat, the deed restrictions and a septic field that caps how many bedrooms the house can have.
Project photos
Photos of the finished rooms
Before you start
Questions about a whole-home remodel in Aledo
We go through these questions with you before any drawings start.
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Do I need a permit to remodel in Aledo?
It depends on which jurisdiction your lot is in, and an Aledo mailing address doesn’t tell you — the city says so itself. Inside the City of Aledo there’s a Unified Development Code, adopted in 2023 and amended through September 2025, and a permit process to go with it. If you’re in Willow Park or one of the Annetta towns, that town’s ordinance applies instead. On unincorporated county land, Parker County publishes that it doesn’t issue building permits or certificates of occupancy, though it does permit the septic system and regulate anything in a flood hazard area. We establish which of those applies to your address before anything is drawn.
Is it true there is no zoning out here?
In the unincorporated parts of Parker County, yes, and the county publishes it in writing. Many people here like that, but no zoning does not mean no rules. The recorded plat still governs, private deed restrictions still bind, the flood hazard map still applies, and the septic field still limits what the house can carry. And a lender or an insurer may later want documentation that no county office ever issued, which is worth knowing before you start rather than at closing.
How big are the lots really?
It depends which part of Aledo you mean, and the difference is large. Inside the city limits the median improved lot is about a fifth of an acre. Outside any city that levies a property tax it is over an acre, and a quarter of those run past two. That difference decides where an addition can go, how a crew stages, whether there is a septic field in the way, and what the driveway is like in winter.
Can you build the same way out here as in Fort Worth?
The building work is the same, but the utilities and logistics around it are different. Water may come from a utility district or a well rather than a city main, waste usually goes to a septic system rather than a sewer, and material deliveries are a longer drive. None of that is hard if we plan for it at the start. It gets expensive if we find it halfway through.
How much of the house has to be in scope?
Enough to take in the rooms that connect. The kitchen, the wall behind it and the room on the other side make a whole-home project, even if no bedroom is touched. What we do not do is a list of unrelated single-trade jobs in different rooms.
What usually turns up once the walls are open?
In houses built before about 1970, the usual suspects are old wiring, plumbing that was replaced halfway and then abandoned, framing that is out of square, and load paths that do not match the drawings. We budget for the class of surprise rather than the specific one, show you what turned up, and price it in the open rather than as a change order you learn about later.
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Thinking about a whole-home remodel in Aledo?
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.