Whole-home remodels in Tanglewood
Lots here run about 136 feet deep, so a remodel can add room off the back as well as rework the plan.
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Design and construction
What a whole-home remodel in Tanglewood 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 Tanglewood
A whole-home project in Tanglewood is usually about connecting rooms that were laid out for how families lived decades ago. The lots usually have room, so a plan here can add on out the back as well as rework the inside.
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 Tanglewood
What the houses here are like
1950s–70s
Mid-century ranches under big trees, most of them fifty to seventy years old, with a run of larger two-story houses that went up as the neighborhood filled in.
The houses here are sound, but their layouts were drawn for how families lived decades ago, which is why most Tanglewood work is additions and whole-home projects rather than a finish refresh.
- Median lot
- 12,420 sq ft
- Median house
- 3,113 sq ft
- Houses with a pool
- 1 in 3
102 ft wide by 136 deep
a quarter are over 3,821 — these are large houses already
221 of the 663 single-family parcels record one
Measured from City of Fort Worth GIS and Tarrant Appraisal District parcels, measured 2026-09-01
Rules for building in Tanglewood
No city historic overlay. Tanglewood is not one of Fort Worth’s fourteen districts.
Nothing here needs a Certificate of Appropriateness, and a rebuild does not answer to a design review board. What you do need to check are the city’s front-yard setback rules and any private deed restrictions, which vary by subdivision, before anyone draws.
A-10 One-Family~71%
- Min lot
- 10,000 sq ft
- Min width
- 60 ft
- Max coverage
- 40%
- Front yard
- 25 ft
A-5 One-Family~10%
- Min lot
- 5,000 sq ft
- Min width
- 50 ft
- Max coverage
- 50%
- Front yard
- 20 ft, 15 ft limited local
Where a row shows two front-yard figures, the minimum depends on how the city classifies your street. The lower one applies only on a limited local street. The street sign does not tell you the classification, so we look it up with the city before we draw.
Most of Tanglewood is A-10, which has tighter limits than A-5
Seven in ten lots here are A-10: a 25-foot front yard rather than A-5’s local-street 20, a 60-foot minimum width, and 40% maximum coverage rather than 50. On the median lot that still leaves a generous footprint — but 40% is the number a second story or a new wing gets measured against, and it is stricter than the neighborhoods a few miles east.
Measured from City of Fort Worth GIS and Tarrant Appraisal District parcels, measured 2026-09-01; City of Fort Worth Zoning Ordinance §4.705(c)(1) and §6.101(d), read 2026-09-25 (edition 2026 S-20)
Cost in Tanglewood
$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 Tanglewood, 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
- Fort Worth permit fees
- $1,200–$4,000
- Set aside a contingency
- 15–20% of budgeton a down-to-studs remodel, we would not go lower
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Tanglewood Primary Suite Remodel See this project →Our advice
What to plan for in Tanglewood
These are the things that come up on almost every whole-home remodel we do here.
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Turn the garage into living space
The bay is already foundation, walls and roof, and it is already inside the plan. On a house that has to fit more people, it is the quickest way to add a room.
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Add on behind the house
On a Tanglewood lot, the trees and the front yard should stay as they are. Build behind the house instead, where the median lot here runs 136 feet front to back.
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Start with the foundation
Most of the ground here moves, and there is no rock under it to stop it. Foundation and drainage decide the order of a whole-home job, not the finish schedule.
How it works
A whole-home remodel in Tanglewood, 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, rebuild, or move?
In Tanglewood all three are live options, and the honest answer depends on your lot, your structure, and what staying is worth to you.
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.
We can price all three: our drafting team can tell you what the lot and the structure will carry, our builders can price both versions, and our agents know what it sells for as-is. We’ve rebuilt here for a family who refused to leave their street. We’ve also told people not to. We give you the real comparison, even when it means less work for us.
Our work in Tanglewood
Tanglewood Multi-Room Remodel
Whole-Home Remodel
Kids change what a house has to do. In Tanglewood, the 6th Ave Homes design and construction teams reworked room after room into a transitional home built for the busy years ahead, and the finished rooms are all here.
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The neighborhood
Built on the Edwards family ranch from 1956, on streets that follow the creek.
This was Edwards Ranch before it was a neighborhood. The family had been running cattle out here since 1848, and the family’s land company opened Tanglewood and Overton Park for development in 1956. Cass Edwards sold the city the ground for the elementary school for one dollar, on the condition it stay a public school. It opened in 1960, and the neighborhood association still holds its quarterly meetings in that auditorium.
The trees were part of the plan from the start. Historic Fort Worth says the trees and lawns are what you notice first here, and the houses second. The houses have low rooflines, deep setbacks and wide front yards. The streets curve with the land and the creek instead of running in a grid, so a neighborhood five miles from downtown feels farther out than it is.
The school path here is unusual, and families plan around it. Tanglewood Elementary runs pre-K through fifth. Then McLean 6th Grade — a Fort Worth ISD campus that serves sixth grade and nothing else. Then McLean Middle for seventh and eighth, then Paschal.
Four generations of house share these streets now: original ranches left largely as built, ranches taken down to the studs and rebuilt, older houses expanded out the back, and large new customs on scraped lots. Two three-thousand-square-foot houses a few streets apart can be worth very different money depending on the lot, the trees, the street, and whether the architecture is something a buyer wants to keep.
Nearby places
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Tanglewood Elementary
Pre-K through fifth on Overton Park Drive West, where the neighborhood association holds its meetings.
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McLean 6th Grade
A campus for sixth grade only. Fort Worth ISD has no other school like it.
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The Trinity Trails
A short walk from the school, and from there they follow the Clear Fork of the Trinity.
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Texas Christian University
A mile and a half away, close enough to walk to a game.
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Trinity Commons
A grocery store and shops for everyday errands, at Hulen and Bellaire Drive South.
- Spanish Oak Drive
- Ranch View Road
- Hartwood Drive
- Lynncrest Drive
- Simondale Drive
- Bellaire Drive South
- Overton Park Drive
- Marquette Court
- Autumn Court
What that means for your whole-home remodel
These houses were designed to sit low under the trees, and good remodels keep them that way. Most of what we take on in Tanglewood is a 1950s or 60s floor plan that has to work for a family today: opening up the back of the house, raising ceilings where the structure allows it, and adding on at ground level under the trees instead of adding a second story.
Project photos
Photos of the finished rooms
Before you start
Questions about a whole-home remodel in Tanglewood
We go through these questions with you before any drawings start.
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“We chose 6th Ave for our extensive home renovation because we needed a one stop shop for planning, design, general contractor and project management. We were very happy with the process from beginning to end and love the end result! Our project finished on time and even a little bit under budget, and the entire staff at 6th Ave (especially Dustin, Lee and Kayla) were great to work with.”
Do I need historic approval for work in Tanglewood?
No. Fort Worth designates fourteen local historic districts and Tanglewood is not among them, so your project does not need a Certificate of Appropriateness. Private deed restrictions are a separate question and worth confirming for your subdivision. Having no city overlay does not mean there are no restrictions.
Can I add on to a Tanglewood house, or should I build new?
Both are live options here, and what decides it is not the lot — it is what your existing structure and foundation will carry, and whether the plan you actually want can be reached by extending the house or only by starting over. A 1950s slab and framing can support some changes and not others, and you cannot tell which from the outside. That is a drafting question before it is a construction question, which is why we draw it first. Our own drafting team runs the feasibility, so you get a real answer before anyone asks you to commit to a budget.
The ceilings feel low. Can they actually be raised?
Often, and it is the single change that does the most for a mid-century house — but it is a structure question, not a finish question. Whether a ceiling can open up depends on how the roof above it is framed and what is carrying the load, and that varies house to house on the same street. It is also rarely all-or-nothing: raising or vaulting one room, or lifting a flat ceiling to the underside of the roof over the main living space, is usually a better project than trying to do it everywhere. We look at the framing and tell you which rooms can actually be raised, before it becomes a line on a budget.
Our ranch has no real front porch. Can we add one?
This is one of the most common Tanglewood asks, and it is one of the highest-return ones — a lot of these houses were built with a shallow entry and no covered outdoor room at the front at all. Adding one is a front-elevation project: the roofline, the massing, the columns and the way it meets the existing brick all have to be drawn together, or it reads as an add-on rather than as though the house always had it. The one thing to settle first is how far forward you can come. Fort Worth applies an established-block front yard rule, so your buildable line can be driven by your neighbors’ houses rather than the base zoning number. We pull your parcel and draw the elevation before anyone talks about a price.
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 we design the new work to match them. 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 Tanglewood?
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.