The lot is why you stay. The plan is why you called. Whole-Home Remodel in Overton Park
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Design, drawn and built
What a whole-home remodel in Overton Park 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 Overton Park
The rooms in these houses are big and the plan around them is 1966: a kitchen closed off from everything, a den treated as a separate country, and a back elevation drawn as if nobody would look at it. Almost none of that is a size problem, which is why the honest scope here is usually bigger in ambition and smaller in structure than people expect. What we look for first is which walls are actually holding the roof up, because that answer decides the shape of the budget.
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 Overton Park
What the houses here actually ask for
1960s
Low-slung 1960s stock: one-story ranch houses with mid-century modern and two-story colonial mixed among them, on lots running about a third of an acre under mature canopy.
Big, low, slab-on-grade houses on lots wide enough to give a plan somewhere to go, nearly all of them from a single postwar build-out. The ground under them changes from block to block, which is the one thing here that will not generalize.
- Median house
- 2,967 sq ft
- Median lot
- 14,664 sq ft
- Houses with a pool
- 246 of 691
a quarter run past 3,594, and the top tenth past 4,274
118 feet across at the median, and 147 deep
more than one in three
Measured from City of Fort Worth GIS and Tarrant Appraisal District parcels, measured 2026-09-02
The ground rules in Overton Park
No historic overlay on any part of Overton Park — the city's zoning map records none across the whole neighborhood.
What governs the outside of a house here is the block, not a review board. One build-out, one scale, and neighbors close enough to read the difference, which makes the elevation a design question rather than a permitting one, and a harder one to get right.
A-10 One-Family~64%
- Min lot
- 10,000 sq ft
- Min width
- 60 ft
- Max coverage
- 40%
- Front yard
- 25 ft
A-21 One-Family~21%
- Min lot
- 21,780 sq ft
- Min width
- 85 ft
- Max coverage
- 30%
- Front yard
- 30 ft
A-5 One-Family~5%
- Min lot
- 5,000 sq ft
- Min width
- 50 ft
- Max coverage
- 50%
- Front yard
- 20 ft
A fifth of this neighborhood is on a different rulebook from the rest of it
About a fifth of Overton Park is zoned A-21 — a half-acre minimum, an 85-ft minimum width, 30% maximum coverage rather than 40%, and a 30-ft front yard rather than 25. Two houses a few doors apart can be measured against different numbers, and the difference lands squarely on what a wing or a second story is allowed to be. It is a parcel answer, and it gets pulled before anything is drawn.
Measured from City of Fort Worth GIS and Tarrant Appraisal District parcels, measured 2026-09-02; Fort Worth Zoning Ordinance §§ 4.702, 4.703 and 4.705, and § 6.101
What we'd actually do here
The moves that matter in Overton Park
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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Use the width. It's what you're paying for.
A third of an acre and 118 feet across the median lot means a plan here can go sideways into space a tighter neighborhood doesn't have, instead of stacking a second story onto a 1966 slab.
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The back of the house is where the plan gave up
Where the greenbelt runs behind the lot, the best view is out the back, and the 1966 elevation was drawn as if it weren't there. Opening that is the biggest single change a remodel makes here.
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Find the ground before you fall for the finishes
Sampled across Overton Park the ground breaks into seven soil units, and the one at the center is clay that moves sitting on rock a foot or two down. Two houses on one street can be standing on different ground.
How it works
A whole-home remodel in Overton Park, 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 Overton Park See the gallery →Both numbers, one conversation
Remodel this one, or sell it to somebody who scrapes it?
A third of an acre under a 1966 house is what a scrape-and-build shops for. Twelve of the 691 houses here have gone that way since 2000.
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. Because both answers come out of the same office, neither one is a pitch for the other.
Our work in Overton Park
Overton Park Total Home Remodel
Whole-Home Remodel
The old floor plan in this Overton Park home couldn't keep up with the family in it. The 6th Ave Homes design and construction teams reworked the traditional layout into a light, bright home built for real daily life, so wander the rooms in the gallery.
See the whole project
From the Overton Park Total Home Remodel — see the full gallery
Inside the work
The rooms, up close
Not our first time on these streets
More of our work in Overton Park
The neighborhood
The last cattle came off this ground in 1954.
Lemuel and Elizabeth Overton Edwards settled a 640-acre Peters Colony grant on the Clear Fork in 1848, a year before the Army put a camp on the bluff that became Fort Worth. The neighborhood is named for their son, Caswell Overton Edwards, born on the ranch in 1851. The family's Cassco Land Company began developing the ranch in the mid-1950s, and most of these houses went up between 1955 and 1968.
In 1959 the Cassco Land Company deeded the city a strip of land about a mile long and between 100 and 150 feet wide, roughly twelve acres, as parkland. It is around 49 acres now, and it runs down the middle of the neighborhood as a green seam linking Tanglewood and Overton Park to Foster Park in the south. Most neighborhoods have a park. This one is built around one.
The trees are the other inheritance. The city's master plan for the park describes bur oaks, cedar elms, American elms, hackberries and Texas ashes, with a bur oak of 40-inch caliper that may be over 130 years old and a cedar elm ring-counted at about 102 years. They are survivors of bottomland woods that were common here until Benbrook Dam was finished in 1952 — older than the houses, and not replaceable at any price.
Historic Fort Worth added neighboring Tanglewood, the sister Cassco development immediately north, to its Most Endangered Places list in 2013, and described what it was watching: a modest single-story 1950s house giving way to a boxlike two-story edifice built to the limit of the lot lines, taking scores of mature trees with it. Anyone driving these streets can see the same arithmetic being run on this side of the line.
What's around it
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Overton Park
3500 Overton Park Drive East. A creek runs its length into the Clear Fork, with 1.76 miles of trail beside it.
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South Hulen Street
The western edge, and the reason nobody here drives far for anything. Hulen Mall has been sitting on it since 1977.
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The Shops at Clearfork
5188 Monahans Avenue, anchored by Neiman Marcus. Opened September 2017.
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Foster Park
The greenbelt's southern continuation: 11.92 acres, a duck pond and 0.78 miles of trail, running down to the Fort Worth and Western Railroad.
- Overton Park Drive East
- Ranch View Road
- Autumn Drive
- Cloudview Road
- Lands End Street
- Black Canyon Road
- Candlelite Lane
- Summercrest Court
- Springwillow Road
- Barkridge Trail
- Thistle Lane
- Fieldcrest Drive
- Arroyo Road
- Boulder Run Street
- Echo Trail
What that means for your whole-home remodel
People don't leave this neighborhood. They outgrow the plan and stay anyway, which is why almost every call we get here starts the same way: somebody describing a house they love and a layout they've been working around for ten years. The green seam down the middle, and trees older than the subdivision: none of that is replaceable, and none of it is what's wrong. The house isn't the problem. The drawing is.
Before you start
A whole-home remodel in Overton Park: the questions worth asking first
The answers that change a Overton Park project are usually the ones nobody asks until the drawings are done. We work through these first.
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“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 Overton Park?
No. Overton Park carries no historic overlay anywhere in the neighborhood, so there's no Certificate of Appropriateness step and no design review board. Private deed restrictions are a separate question and are worth confirming for your block.
What is the ground like here?
It isn't one thing, and that's the useful part of the answer. Sampled across the neighborhood the ground breaks into seven soil units — the reading at the center is a clay that both moves and sits on limestone within a foot or two, while most of the rest is a lower-movement profile. Two houses on the same street can be on different ground. We pull the parcel rather than carrying an assumption over from the last job.
How much can I add on a lot this size?
More than most of Fort Worth, and the exact number is a parcel answer. About two thirds of Overton Park is zoned A-10, which allows 40% lot coverage on a 10,000 sq ft minimum lot; roughly a fifth is A-21, where the maximum is 30% and the front yard requirement is deeper. On top of that, Fort Worth measures the front yard on an established block against the neighboring houses. We pull the parcel before we draw.
Will the remodel look like it belongs on the street?
That is the standard we work to. These blocks are legible: low rooflines, deep setbacks, mature trees. A house that suddenly announces itself reads as a mistake for twenty years. The work is meant to look like the house was always this good, which is a different brief from making it look new.
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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Fort Worth Magazine · plus Small Business of the Year, Fort Worth Chamber
Thinking about a whole-home remodel in Overton Park?
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.