There's room here to go out, not just through. Whole-Home Remodel in Tanglewood
Our work · Mistletoe Heights Whole-Home Remodel
Design, drawn and built
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 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 Tanglewood
A whole-home project in Tanglewood is usually about reconnecting rooms that were drawn for a different decade. There is generally room to work with, which is why plans here can go out as well as through.
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 Tanglewood
What the houses here actually ask for
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. The layouts are just forty years behind how a family actually lives now, 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
The ground rules 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 it does answer to is the street — and private deed restrictions, which vary by subdivision and are worth confirming 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
A-10 is the strictest common zoning in the city, and it is most of Tanglewood
Seven in ten lots here are A-10: a 25-foot front yard rather than 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
What it runs in Tanglewood
$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 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 moves it
- What is behind the walls. Two houses with identical floor plans can carry very different budgets depending on whether the wiring, plumbing and ductwork were replaced in the last fifty years or never — and none of that is readable from the curb, which is why we open a wall before we price the drawings.
- How much of the plan is actually structural. In most postwar houses very little of what is in the way is carrying load — but that answer comes from opening things up, not from the floor plan.
- 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 per square foot
- How long it takes
- 5–12 months
- City permit fees
- $1,200–$4,000 in Fort Worth
- Carry a contingency
- budget 15–20% — on a down-to-studs remodel this is the number we would not thin out
Built by 6th Ave Homes
Tanglewood Primary Suite Remodel Step inside this one →What we'd actually do here
The moves that matter in Tanglewood
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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Take back the garage
The bay is already foundation, walls and roof, and it is already inside the plan. On a house that has to hold more people, it is the shortest route to a room.
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Take the addition off the back
The trees and the front yard are the part of a Tanglewood lot you cannot spend. The depth behind the house is, and the median lot here runs 136 feet front to back.
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The slab sets the schedule
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 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, 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 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.
We're one of the few companies that can price all three honestly — 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. You'll get the real comparison, not the one that sells our services.
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.
See the whole projectNot our first time on these streets
More of our work in Tanglewood
The neighborhood
Ranch land laid out so the trees would outrank the houses.
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 canopy is the point, and it was drawn that way. Historic Fort Worth describes these houses as the second thing you look at: the trees and the lawns get first. Low rooflines, deep setbacks, wide front yards. The streets bend with the terrain and the creek rather than running a grid, which is why a neighborhood five miles from downtown feels tucked much further out.
The school path here is the strangest in Fort Worth, 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 nobody has touched, 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.
What's around it
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Tanglewood Elementary
Pre-K through fifth on Overton Park Drive West, and the closest thing this neighborhood has to a town square.
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McLean 6th Grade
One grade, one campus, one year. There is nothing else like it in Fort Worth ISD.
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The Trinity Trails
Walkable from the school, and they run the whole Clear Fork from there.
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Texas Christian University
A mile and a half. Close enough to walk into a game, far enough that this never feels like a college neighborhood.
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Trinity Commons
The grocery and the errand corner, at Hulen and Bellaire Drive South.
- Tanglewood Trail
- Spanish Oak Drive
- Ranch View Road
- Harlanwood Drive
- Hartwood Drive
- Lynncrest Drive
- Simondale Drive
- Bellaire Drive South
- Overton Park Drive
- Mockingbird Lane
- Marquette Court
- Autumn Court
What that means for your whole-home remodel
These houses were drawn to sit low and let the trees be the architecture, and the good remodels still do. Most of what we take on in Tanglewood is a 1950s or 60s plan that has to hold a 2026 family — opening up the back of the house, lifting ceiling height where the structure allows it, and finding the addition that goes out under the canopy instead of up through it.
Inside the work
The rooms, up close
Before you start
A whole-home remodel in Tanglewood: the questions worth asking first
The answers that change a Tanglewood project are usually the ones nobody asks until the drawings are done. We work through these first.
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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 — no city overlay is not the same as no restriction.
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 will take some things and refuse others, and which is which is not obvious 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 will actually give, 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 a projected front yard setback on established blocks, 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 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 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 real number on it — before anyone signs anything.