Whole-home remodels in Mira Vista
These late-'90s houses were drawn for formal entertaining. Opening the plan rarely means moving much structure.
Our work · Mira Vista Whole-Home Refresh
Design, drawn and built
What a whole-home remodel in Mira Vista 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 Mira Vista
The plan is the dated part, not the house. A late-nineties custom home here was drawn for formal entertaining: a dining room used twice a year, a kitchen closed off from the room the family actually lives in, volume spent on an entry nobody stands in. Very little of that is structural, which is why the honest scope here is usually bigger in ambition and smaller in demolition than people expect.
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 Mira Vista
What the houses here actually ask for
1990s
Late-1990s and 2000s custom houses on a bit over four tenths of an acre, behind a gate, usually with a three-car garage and a pool in the back yard. Styles run traditional to Mediterranean to contemporary rather than repeating one form.
Big, structurally sound houses of a single generation on generous lots. Underneath them, the most common reading across the neighborhood is an unusual one for Fort Worth: limestone recorded as shallow as twelve inches, with low shrink-swell. So the North Texas clay-heave story is usually not the problem here. What is, is that something is in the way — and that is what prices a footing, a pier, a pool excavation or a utility trench. It is a parcel answer, and we pull yours.
- Median house
- 4,703 sq ft
- Median lot
- 18,215 sq ft
- Houses with a pool
- 418 of 696
a quarter run past 5,665, and the top tenth past 6,856
a median frontage of 136 feet, and a recorded median lot area a shade over 0.4 acre
three in five, which is why the yard is usually part of the conversation
Measured from City of Fort Worth GIS and Tarrant Appraisal District parcels, measured 2026-09-02
The ground rules in Mira Vista
The city is not what governs the outside of a house here. The neighborhood is.
There's no historic overlay in Mira Vista and no Certificate of Appropriateness. What there is instead is an architectural committee written into the deed restrictions. As the record stood before the declaration was restated in January 2026, it reviewed exterior work on quality of materials and workmanship, on how a design sits against the rest of the development, and on where a structure lands on the lot and what that does to a neighbor. It's a private process with real teeth, and it runs before the city sees anything.
A-5 One-Family~65% of the land here
- Minimum lot
- 5,000 sq ft
- Minimum width
- 50 ft
- Maximum coverage
- 50%
- Front yard
- 20 ft
The committee goes first, and the city goes second
In a case the Fort Worth court of appeals decided in 2018, a builder here took plans to the city before taking them to the committee. The committee stopped the job and fined the builder for exactly that. So the order of operations is the thing to get right, and it is the opposite of the order most people assume. What we can't tell you from that record is how heavy the review runs for your particular job: the declaration was consolidated and restated in January 2026, so the current text governs, and we pull it for your lot before we draw.
Measured from City of Fort Worth GIS and Tarrant Appraisal District parcels, measured 2026-09-02; City of Fort Worth Summary of Zoning Districts; Texas appellate record, 2018; Tarrant County Clerk records
What it runs in Mira Vista
$150,000–$750,000
a smaller house taken cosmetic-plus at the low end, down to studs on something large at the top.
Ranges for a whole-home remodel in Mira Vista, 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
- 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
- Fort Worth permit fees
- $1,200–$4,000
- Carry a contingency
- 15–20% of budgeton a down-to-studs remodel, the number we would not thin out
Built by 6th Ave Homes
Westcliff Total Home Interior Refresh Step inside this one →What we'd actually do here
The moves that matter in Mira Vista
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 the kitchen toward the yard
The 1999 plan usually put a formal dining room between the kitchen and the door out to the yard. Taking that wall out connects the room the family actually uses to the one they already paid for.
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Take the exterior to the committee first
Windows, doors, roofline, an outdoor room. Those go to the architectural committee, and the committee runs before the city permit, not after. We pull the current standard for your lot before we draw.
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The pool is already there. Plan around it.
Three houses in five here have one, and it usually sits exactly where a crew wants to stage material. That's a week-one conversation, not a week-six surprise.
How it works
A whole-home remodel in Mira Vista, 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 this one, or buy something newer?
Nothing here is worn out. It is a 1999 brief in a house that was built well.
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 against what your money buys in the newer builds west of here. Because both answers come out of the same office, neither one is a pitch for the other.
Our work in Mira Vista
Mira Vista Whole-Home Refresh
Whole-Home Remodel
Some homes just need a steady, thoughtful hand across every room. In Mira Vista, the 6th Ave Homes design and construction teams gave this one a transitional refresh with a timeless, warm-neutral feel, so wander the finished rooms below.
See the whole projectNot our first time on these streets
Another one of ours in Mira Vista
The neighborhood
Twenty-five miles of street here belong to the neighborhood.
The club opened on 22 August 1987 with eighty-four charter members, on a course Tom Weiskopf and Jay Morrish laid out, and the members have owned it since 2008. A full renovation of the course started in October 2024: every green, bunker and tee rebuilt, the fairways regrassed and widened, new irrigation throughout.
The streets themselves belong to the neighborhood rather than to the city — twenty-five miles of them, privately maintained — which is why a crew working here is a guest on them.
One thing worth knowing before you look at schools: the neighborhood is split between two districts. Test addresses across it and the eastern and southern portions come back Crowley ISD while the northwestern corner comes back Fort Worth ISD. A guide that names one district for the whole neighborhood is wrong either way. Check the address, not the neighborhood.
What's around it
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Mira Vista Country Club
6600 Mira Vista Boulevard. Tom Weiskopf and Jay Morrish drew the course; it opened in August 1987 and the members have owned it since 2008.
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The guard post
Staffed twenty-four hours. It's the practical reason a delivery window here is a scheduling question rather than an afterthought.
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The Shops at Clearfork
5188 Monahans Avenue, anchored by Neiman Marcus. Opened September 2017.
- Mira Vista Boulevard
- Forest Highlands Drive
- Saucon Valley Drive
- Laurel Valley Drive
- Lahontan Drive
- Sanctuary Heights Road
- Crooked Stick Drive
- Desert Highlands Drive
- Oak Hill Drive
- Turnberry Drive
- Medinah Drive
- Troon Road
- Cypress Point Drive
- Sahalee Drive
- Augusta Road
- Sawgrass Drive
- Muirfield Road
What that means for your whole-home remodel
The decision people actually make here isn't whether the house is good. It's whether a 1999 plan is worth redrawing or worth leaving behind, and on a lot this size in a neighborhood this hard to replace, that answer is usually redraw. We've done it here before. What makes it a different job from the same work four miles east is the order it has to happen in, and that's a scheduling problem with a known shape rather than a risk.
Inside the work
The rooms, up close
Before you start
A whole-home remodel in Mira Vista: the questions worth asking first
The answers that change a Mira Vista project are usually the ones nobody asks until the drawings are done. We work through these first.
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Do I need approval from the HOA before I remodel?
For anything that changes the outside of the house, yes, and it comes first. One caveat before the specifics: the declaration was consolidated and restated in January 2026, so we pull the current text for your lot rather than working from an old copy. As the record stood before that, the architectural committee reviewed exterior work on quality of materials and workmanship, on how the design sits against the rest of the development, and on siting and its effect on neighbors — and a court record from 2018 shows it stopping a job and fining a builder for going to the city before coming to the committee. The same record has the committee saying it frequently omits much of that original-construction procedure for work that is not new construction, which is where an interior remodel usually lands. We confirm the current requirement for your address rather than promising you a shortcut.
How much can I add on a lot this size?
More than the city cares about, and less than you might assume. Most of the houses here carry A-5 zoning, whose minimum lot is 5,000 square feet — against a median lot here of 18,215. So the city's base rules are nowhere near binding. What binds is the deed restrictions and the committee that administers them, and that is a per-lot answer we pull before anything is drawn.
Can a crew get in and out through the gate?
Yes, and it is a scheduling question rather than an obstacle. The streets here are private and the guard post is staffed around the clock, so deliveries, dumpsters and trade crews all get arranged in advance rather than turning up. We handle that as part of running the job.
Will a remodel look out of place on this street?
That is the committee's whole job, and it is worth having on your side rather than against you. Fitting against the rest of the development is what it has historically weighed, and it is the same standard we would hold ourselves to on a street where every house was drawn individually. The work is meant to read as though the house was always this good.
Can we do it in phases?
Sometimes, and sometimes phasing costs more than it saves. Anything sharing mechanical systems or structure wants to happen in one pass. A detached scope, a later addition, a backyard, those phase cleanly. We will draw the whole plan either way so that phase one does not have to be undone.
What happens to the parts of the house we already love?
They stay, and they set the vocabulary for everything new. Original floors, a stair rail, the trim profile, a fireplace. Telling us what you would be sad to lose is the most useful thing you can do on the first walkthrough.
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Thinking about a whole-home remodel in Mira Vista?
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.