Whole-Home Remodel · Arlington Heights
Keep the trees. Rethink everything under the roof. Whole-Home Remodel in Arlington Heights
The right street, the wrong floor plan. We open it up, find room for a primary suite, and hand back a house that fits the people actually living in it.
Design, drawn and built
What a whole-home remodel in Arlington Heights involves
Good street, good bones, and a floor plan drawn for how families lived seventy years 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 Arlington Heights
The variable in a whole-home remodel here is not the plan, it is which fifty years you happen to own. One house on the block still has its original systems behind the plaster and the one next door had them replaced fifty years ago, and those two carry very different budgets for the same set of drawings. Nothing about that is readable from the curb.
Renovating in Arlington Heights
What the houses here actually ask for
1920s–1950s
Craftsman bungalows and Tudor cottages from the 1920s and '30s beside mid-century houses that have been updated since — a genuine mix rather than one era, on oak-shaded streets.
The ground on this side of town is thin over limestone, close enough to the surface that excavation is a real line item and seasonal movement mostly is not. Above it, three decades of building practice share the same streets.
What we'd actually do here
The moves that matter in Arlington Heights
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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Open one wall in each system's path
The cheapest way to find out which era you own is a few exploratory openings — a panel, a wall cavity, a section of floor — done before the plan is priced rather than during demolition.
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Moving a drain means trenching rock
Relocating a kitchen or adding a bath here means cutting limestone under the slab rather than digging soil. Plumbing relocation gets priced off the ground, not off the fixture count.
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Budget for undoing the last remodel
Previous work is where the surprises live — a dropped ceiling over good framing, a bath moved without moving the stack. We price the removal, not just the build.
How it works
A whole-home remodel in Arlington Heights, 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
Arlington Heights Primary Suite Addition See the project →Both numbers, one conversation
Remodel it, or buy the one you actually want?
The location and the trees are why people stay on this side of town. Whether this particular house is worth the work is a different question, and it deserves a real number on each side.
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.
Most Fort Worth companies can only fill in one side.
We can price both sides, which almost nobody can. Our drafting team will tell you what your house will and won't give up, our builders price the work off those drawings, and our agents can tell you what it's worth as it stands. Sometimes the honest answer is that the house you're describing is already for sale two streets over. We'd rather say that than sell you a remodel that never quite gets there.
Our work in Arlington Heights
Arlington Heights Whole-Home Remodel
Whole-Home Remodel
In Arlington Heights, the bones were good but the layout fought the family at every turn. The 6th Ave Homes design and construction teams reimagined the whole home so it finally works the way they live, and every room is waiting in the gallery.
See the whole project
From the Arlington Heights Whole-Home Remodel — see the full gallery
Not our first time on these streets
More of our work in Arlington Heights
Before you start
A whole-home remodel in Arlington Heights: the questions worth asking first
The answers that change a Arlington Heights project are usually the ones nobody asks until the drawings are done. We work through these first.
Nearby and related
Talk yours through“From sitting down with us in advance to walk through the process to being very timely and responsive with emails and phone calls throughout, our guide was on top of every detail. 6th Ave Homes could not have a better representative of how they want to show up in support of their clients.”
Do I need historic approval to remodel in Arlington Heights?
No. Fort Worth designates fourteen local historic districts and Arlington Heights is not one of them, so exterior work here doesn't need a Certificate of Appropriateness and the standard city residential permit path applies. Private deed restrictions are a separate matter from city zoning and worth confirming for your own block — no city overlay is not the same as no restriction.
Why do bids on houses that look alike come back so differently?
Because they aren't alike underneath, and the differences are all in the parts nobody photographs. Panel capacity and whether the wiring was ever fully replaced. Whether there is ductwork or a system that was added to a house built without one. Whether the floor sits on piers or a slab, and what has happened to it since. Any one of those moves a number further than the finish schedule does, and none of them are visible on a walkthrough. So the real question to ask about a low bid is which of them it assumed rather than checked.
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.
Best Home Builder & Remodeler
Fort Worth Magazine · plus Small Business of the Year, Fort Worth Chamber
Thinking about a whole-home remodel in Arlington Heights?
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.