Dallas Remodeling Contractor

Remodeling in Dallas

One third of the houses in Dallas were built before 1970, and another 31 percent in the 1970s and 1980s. On the east side that means Lakewood, the M Streets in Greenland Hills, Junius Heights, Munger Place, Casa Linda Estates and Casa View. In North Oak Cliff it means Kessler Park and Winnetka Heights, with the Bishop Arts District a few blocks away. Lake Highlands and Preston Hollow to the north carry the 1950s through 1970s ranches.

These are the neighborhoods where we spend most of our Dallas time. The trip from Haltom City is a real drive, so we schedule Dallas jobs in blocks and keep the crew on site until the job is done.

Tudors, Bungalows and Ranches

The 1920s and 1930s Tudors and bungalows in Lakewood and the M Streets have small kitchens at the back and one bathroom for the whole house. The job is a kitchen rebuild that often takes in the old breakfast room, plus a second bath carved from a bedroom or added off the back. Floors are pier-and-beam and we level them before any cabinet goes in.

The 1950s and 1960s ranches in Lake Highlands, Casa Linda and Preston Hollow are slab houses with closed kitchens and low ceilings. The common job is a wall removed between the kitchen and the den, the ceiling opened where the roof allows, and the master bath expanded into a closet.

• Kitchen rebuilds in Tudors, bungalows and ranches
• Adding a second bath to a one-bath house
• Rear additions on deep East Dallas lots
• Commercial build-outs in Bishop Arts and Oak Lawn

Conservation Districts

Several East Dallas and Oak Cliff neighborhoods, including Munger Place, Junius Heights and Winnetka Heights, carry historic or conservation district rules on what the outside of the house can look like. Interior work is not affected. Additions, windows and siding are. We check the district before we draw anything so the plan is approvable the first time.

Dallas Permits

The City of Dallas Building Inspection division issues residential remodel and addition permits. The city moved to a new online permitting system in 2025, and all applications, plans and inspection requests go through it. Wall changes, new circuits and plumbing moves need a permit. Cosmetic work does not. We handle the filing.

Flooring, Ceilings and the 1970s Houses

The original oak floors in a Lakewood or M Streets house are usually under carpet and usually worth saving. We pull the carpet, patch where walls came out with matching oak, sand and finish. Where a previous owner cut the floor for ductwork, we weave in new boards so the patch disappears.

In the 1970s houses across Lake Highlands and Preston Hollow the ceilings are the issue: low, textured, and often with a soffit over the kitchen. We scrape the texture, remove the soffit, and where the roof framing allows we vault the den ceiling to the rafters. That one change does more for a 1970s house than any cabinet choice.

Paint and trim finish every Dallas job. In the older houses we match the original casing profile and keep the original doors and hardware where they are sound, so a new kitchen does not look bolted onto a 1925 house.

Nearby Cities

From Dallas we cover Plano up US 75, Frisco up the Dallas North Tollway, and Arlington west on I-30.