Half this city was built before two-car garages were a given. We put honest storage behind mid-century houses, sized to the lot and built to last longer than the metal kit it replaces.
The census puts the median construction year of a Lake Worth house at 1968, and a full quarter of the housing stock went up in the 1950s alone. Those houses were built for a different volume of life: a single-car garage if any, a small closet count, and a yard meant for a clothesline.
Nobody in 1955 planned for two mowers' worth of yard equipment, a generation of holiday decorations, camping gear, tools and the overflow of three bedrooms. So it all stacks in the one garage bay, and the car that was supposed to live there sleeps outside under the hail.
This whole city covers about two and a half square miles, and nearly every house in it is a detached single-family home with this exact problem. We build the piece that was never poured: a real storage building, sized to the lot, finished to look like it belongs.
Lake Worth's standard residential district runs on lots of seventy-five hundred square feet, roughly sixty feet across. That is not a limitation so much as a design brief. The building has to earn its footprint.
We start from placement rather than size: where the drainage runs, where the easements sit, which corner of the yard you can give up without losing the part you use. Then we size to the space that remains. A 10x12 handles yard equipment and bins. A 12x16 adds a workbench wall. Doors go where you actually walk, not where the catalog drew them.
And because the yard is visible from the kitchen window, finish matters. Siding and shingle tone get pulled against your house, so the building reads as original equipment rather than an afterthought. Sketch your own in the 3D builder and watch the price update as you go.
The city's accessory building rules are friendlier than most, especially at small sizes.
The city's own zoning chapter exempts sheds under one hundred twenty square feet from the building permit and from the masonry requirement that applies to bigger structures. A well-built 10x12 lands in this tier, which keeps the process short.
Past that line you are into a permit through the city's Permits and Inspections office, with plans showing setbacks and placement. Standards get amended, so confirm your project with the city. We prepare the drawings and carry the paperwork.
Lake Worth's code prohibits carports outside its two single-family districts and holds them to the house's own setback line. In practice, an enclosed building is often the cleaner route to covered storage than a carport application. Worth asking us about before you commit either way.
Walk the alleys here and you can date the sheds like tree rings: thin-panel metal kits from the eighties, doors seized, bases rusted to lace, roofs that quit sealing years ago. Most of them were set straight on dirt, which is why they lean.
We tear them down, haul them off and put a framed wood building in their place, up on treated runners over a leveled pad so ground moisture never touches the floor frame. Sixteen-inch stud centers, rated shingles, a door that still swings true in a decade.
The difference shows up in what you can store. A dry, ventilated building holds photographs, fabric, electronics and paper without ruining them. The old kit could barely be trusted with a shovel.
Same building either way. The route in decides which.
The default on mature blocks, where tree canopy, overhead lines and narrow gates rule out a trailer. Lumber arrives in a pickup, the building goes up where it will live, and nothing has to clear anything.
Where the approach is open, a completed building arrives and gets set the same day. Faster from deposit to done when the route allows it.
Photos of your gate and approach are enough for an honest answer before you spend anything. No surprises on delivery morning.
Three generations of the same family build every unit to the same framing spec. Nobody ships you a flat-pack and wishes you luck.
Each one builds to your size, siding and color.
The straightforward gable that matches a ranch-style roofline. Most storage per dollar. Starts at $2,384.
Gambrel roof buys loft storage overhead, which matters when the footprint is tight and the stuff is not.
Windows and flower-box trim for the corner of the yard you can see from the kitchen. Deliberate, not hidden.
Insulated, wired and lit for the hobby that outgrew the kitchen table. Tell us the work and we frame around it.
| Size | Price |
|---|---|
| 8x8 | $2,384 |
| 10x12 | $3,900 |
| 12x16 | $5,376 |
| 12x24 | $7,200 |
| 12x32 | $9,200 |
| Size | Price |
|---|---|
| 8x8 | $2,860 |
| 10x12 | $4,622 |
| 12x16 | $6,380 |
| 12x24 | $8,136 |
| 16x32 | $14,776 |
| Size | Price |
|---|---|
| 8x10 | $3,393 |
| 10x12 | $4,722 |
| 12x16 | $6,496 |
| 12x20 | $7,370 |
| 12x24 | $8,951 |
February 2021 took this county to two degrees below zero and held houses dark for days. The ice storm of early 2023 dropped limbs and lines across Tarrant County, and January 2025 stacked two more winter events into a single month. Then summer arrives and holds triple digits for weeks at a stretch.
Texas leads the country in hail claims, and this county sits square in the middle of the reason why. So the roof gets rated shingles over solid decking, the walls get real framing, and the whole structure gets anchored against spring wind rather than resting on hope.
A building that shrugs all of that off for twenty years costs surprisingly little more than the kit that will not. That margin is the whole argument for doing it once, properly.
Lake Worth proper, Sansom Park, Lakeside and the Marine Creek area, the neighborhoods threaded along the Jacksboro Highway and Azle Avenue corridors inside the loop. If your street feeds SH 199 or Boat Club Road, you are in our regular build area.
Neighboring cities have their own pages, because their rules and their housing stock genuinely differ. South of the base, see our White Settlement page. Closer to downtown, Fort Worth storage buildings covers that ground. Northwest along 199, Azle handles the lake country, and the rail-town lots north of here live on our Saginaw page.
The house never had one, or the one it has holds a car and nothing else. The building takes the rest, permanently.
Mower, trimmer, spreader, hoses and the gas can, out of the weather and off the back porch.
Holidays, keepsakes, tax boxes and hand-me-downs waiting on grandkids. Dry, ventilated, off the floor.
A bench, an outlet strip and a light over the vise. The hobby gets a room and the dining table returns to dinner.
Owners keep mowers and materials on-site between visits; tenants get somewhere for bikes besides the hallway.
Inventory, tools of a trade, market-booth gear. Cheaper than a storage unit and forty steps from the back door.
Call or price one in the 3D builder. We ask about the lot, the gate and what has to fit inside.
One number with every option itemized, tear-down of the old shed included if you want it gone.
We confirm what the city needs for your size, then level and prepare the pad. You approve placement before anything is fixed.
Framed on your lot or delivered and set, then we haul off the debris and walk the building with you.
For a household running without a garage, a 10x12 disappoints within a year. The configuration that works is a 12x16 or 12x20 with double doors and a ramp, which swallows the mower, the bikes, the tools and the seasonal bins with room to move around inside. On a seventy-five-hundred-square-foot lot that footprint still leaves a usable yard. Stand in one before you decide, or price both in the 3D builder.
Under one hundred twenty square feet, the city's accessory building section exempts a shed from both the permit and the masonry requirement, which keeps the small sizes simple. Anything larger goes through Permits and Inspections at 817-255-7920 with a site plan showing setbacks. Rules get amended, so confirm your specific project with the city. Either way, we produce the drawings and handle the paperwork end to end.
Yes, and this is most of what we do here. The standard residential district in Lake Worth is built around seventy-five-hundred-square-foot lots roughly sixty feet wide, and a 10x12 or 12x16 sits comfortably in a back corner with code clearances kept. The math that matters is placement: clear of easements, clear of the drain path, doors facing the direction you actually approach from. We stake it out with you before anything is fixed.
The thin-panel metal kits that went up behind these houses decades ago are mostly done: rusted through at the base, doors off their tracks, roofs that leak on everything worth keeping. We regularly tear one down, haul it away and set the new building on the same corner of the yard, prepared properly this time. Mention it at quote time so the tear-down is priced in writing with everything else.
Sometimes not, and we would rather know before delivery day. Mature neighborhoods off Azle Avenue carry sixty years of tree canopy and overhead service drops, and a finished building rides high on the trailer. Where the route will not clear, we switch to building on-site: the lumber comes in a pickup, nothing needs overhead clearance, and the finished result is identical. Send us photos of the approach and we will call it honestly.
Landlords order from us more than you might guess. A locked backyard building lets you store mowers, paint and repair materials at the property instead of hauling them, and it gives tenants somewhere for bikes and bins besides the second bedroom. On a mid-century rental without a garage, that is a real listing-photo upgrade. Durable siding, a steel-hinged door and no interior finish keeps the cost sensible.
Tell us the age of the house, the width of the gate and what has to fit inside. You get a written price, tear-down of the old shed included if you want it gone. Financing runs with no payments for the first 90 days, subject to credit approval.
Mon–Fri 7:30am–5:30pm
Sat 9am–1pm
Fort Worth Shed-Design Center
14135 US-287, Fort Worth TX 76179