An Aledo address doesn't say who governs your lot. Whole-Home Remodel in Aledo
Our work · Aledo Mid-Century Renovation
Design, drawn and built
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 primary suite finally shows up where there never was one, and the kitchen stops being a corridor everyone has to walk 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. It just stops arguing with you.
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 — and that is three different permitting paths, not two: this city, another city, or no city. 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
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.
The construction set
Every room dimensioned, every window and door scheduled, ceiling heights called out — the drawing a plan reviewer stamps and a framer 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 actually ask for
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.
Two completely different products under one name. Inside the Aledo city limits it's a normal small-town subdivision market on a fifth of an acre with city water and sewer. Beyond them the median improved lot runs over an acre and the sewer is usually a septic field — and beyond them is not one place either. It might be Willow Park or an Annetta town, each with its own ordinance, or it might be county land with no city over it 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 other seven in eight answer to somebody else, or to nobody
Measured from Parker County Appraisal District parcel records, read 2026-09-02 via scripts/parker-parcel-profile.mjs
The ground rules in Aledo
One Aledo ISD parcel in eight is inside the City of Aledo. The rest answer to somebody else, or to nobody.
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 it isn't something a ZIP code answers.
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 sounds like freedom, and really it's a shift in where the constraints live — to the plat, the deed restrictions, the drain field and, if you ever sell or refinance, to a lender who may want paperwork nobody 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
What we'd actually do here
The moves that matter in Aledo
Every neighborhood rewards something different. These are the three that come up on almost every whole-home remodel we take on.
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Settle the jurisdiction before the floor plan
Three in eight Aledo ISD parcels sit inside a city that taxes them, and most of the rest sit inside no city at all — but not all: the Annetta towns are incorporated and zoned and collect no property tax, so they don't show up in the tax record as cities at all.
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The septic field is a bedroom count
Out at Remuda Ranch Estates or Covered Bridge Canyon the drain field was sized for the house that got built. Adding bedrooms or a guest suite is a capacity question first and a framing question second. 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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Build the addition where the plat lets you
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 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
Whole-Home Remodel in Aledo See the gallery →Both numbers, one conversation
Remodel the one you bought, or build new out here?
Out here the lot is big enough that starting over is a real answer, not a bluff.
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 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 that second number is genuinely competitive, and we'd rather say so than sell you a remodel that never quite gets there.
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.
See the whole project
From the Aledo Mid-Century Renovation — see the full gallery
Inside the work
The rooms, up close
Not our first time on these streets
More of our work in Aledo
The neighborhood
Twelve football state titles, and a downtown that came back.
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 moving west: 1,169 by 1990, 1,726 by 2000, and 4,858 at the 2020 census. The city had about a thousand people in 1980, so almost everything you can buy inside the city limits today went up after that.
The schools are the reason, and unlike most claims of that kind this one has a state agency behind it. 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. About 8,400 students across twelve campuses in the state's 2025 count.
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.
Read the subdivision names and you can see what the land was doing before: 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, point straight at the airfield.
What's around it
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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 community-built mountain-bike skills area. Not a municipal amenity anybody planned. The neighborhood made it.
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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 that organize daily life here. 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
People move here for the school district and the acre, and then they stay in a house that was not built for the way they use it. That is the whole shape of the work out here. What makes it a different job from the same remodel in Fort Worth is not the carpentry — it is that the rules are not where you expect them. There may be no zoning district, no city inspector and no certificate of occupancy, and instead a plat, a set of deed restrictions and a septic field that decides how many bedrooms the house can actually carry.
Before you start
A whole-home remodel in Aledo: the questions worth asking first
The answers that change a Aledo project are usually the ones nobody asks until the drawings are done. We work through these first.
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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. Plenty of people out here treat that as an advantage, and it is not the same as 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 Aledo you mean, and the gap is the whole story. 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 drive looks like in February.
Can you build the same way out here as in Fort Worth?
The carpentry is the same. Everything around it isn't. 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's difficult once it's planned for. All of it is expensive to discover halfway through.
How much of the house has to be in scope?
Enough that the parts talk to each other. Kitchen plus the wall behind it plus the room on the other side is a whole-home conversation whether or not every 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 real number on it — before anyone signs anything.