The houses here went up small and went up fast, and a lot of the garages have since become bedrooms. We build the storage those lots were never given.
This town was built by an airfield. The city incorporated in 1941, Consolidated Aircraft started turning out B-24 Liberators here in February 1942, and White Settlement picked up the nickname Liberator Village. By 1950 the population had passed ten thousand, riding on what became Carswell Air Force Base.
That base is now Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Fort Worth, and part of the installation sits inside this city's own limits. Something over eleven thousand people work there, with a large retired-military population settled across the surrounding area.
What that history left behind is a specific kind of house. The median home in White Settlement was built around 1966, most of them three bedrooms with about five and a half rooms all told. Compact, sturdy, and short on anywhere to put a mower. That is the problem we solve.
Neither one is about hoarding. Both are structural, and both show up in the city's own paperwork.
White Settlement's permit fee schedule has a dedicated line for residential remodels including garage enclosure. When a city writes a fee category for something, it is happening constantly. The conversion adds a room and removes the only real storage a mid-century house had.
Families stationed at the Joint Reserve Base move on orders rather than on their own schedule, and a permanent change of station ships household goods only up to a weight allowance tied to rank. Tools and equipment are heavy. A building keeps them off the manifest.
Around five thousand detached single-family homes here, most of them three-bedroom and built when nobody planned for two cars, a riding mower and a garage gym. The houses did not shrink. What we own grew.
New subdivisions are easy to match because everything on the street is the same age. An older neighborhood is harder and more interesting. Siding has weathered, shingles have been replaced at least once, and the trim color on the house today may be nothing like what went on it originally.
So we match what is on the wall now. Profile, tone and roof line read against the actual house rather than against a catalog swatch. On a compact lot the building is going to be visible from the kitchen window and from the neighbor's, so it may as well look like it belongs.
Same thinking applies to size. On these lots the honest answer is often a smaller building placed well rather than the largest one that will physically fit. We would rather you kept some yard.
Same crew and materials either way. On lots this size, access usually decides it.
Lumber comes in through whatever opening exists and the building goes up where it stands. The answer for narrow side yards, mature trees and fences you would rather not take apart.
Arrives complete and set the same day. Works well where there is a wide gate, an alley, or a clear side approach.
Narrowest point between house and fence, gate width, and how much back yard you are willing to give up. Three numbers settle most of it.
Family owned and built to one standard, whether it is an 8x10 or a workshop.
Sized to the lot and finished to match the house.
Straight gable and the most storage per square foot, which matters when the yard is not large. Starts at $2,384.
Gambrel roof buys overhead space without a bigger footprint. Useful on a compact lot where you cannot spread out.
Windows and trim for a building that will be in plain view from the patio. Starts at $3,393.
Insulation, a bench wall, lighting and electrical rough-in, for the trade households that make up a good share of this town.
| 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 |
Texas leads the country for hail by a wide margin, with better than nine hundred severe hail events recorded statewide in 2025, more than double the next state. Fort Worth sits where supercells form readily, and spring is when it happens. May is the wettest month here.
Summer runs the other direction. August averages a high near ninety-six degrees, and the record for this area still stands at 113. Annual rainfall lands in the mid thirties of inches, arriving in bursts rather than steadily.
Underneath, this is Grand Prairie ground: shallow clay over limestone and marl. The clay shrinks through a dry stretch and swells again after rain, and a building set on inadequate blocking will rack until its doors stop closing. So we prepare the pad, set runners clear of standing water, and anchor for the spring wind.
White Settlement itself, neighboring Westworth Village, and the Westover Hills area. If your street runs off White Settlement Road, Cherry Lane, Las Vegas Trail or Clifford Street, you are in our normal run.
Worth noting that this is a compact city almost entirely wrapped by Fort Worth, so a 76108 address is not automatically inside White Settlement city limits and the permit desk changes with the line. Check your plat. If you land on the Fort Worth side, see our Fort Worth page. Northwest toward the lake, Azle covers that ground. West into Parker County, try Weatherford.
The most common call we get here. A converted garage has to put its contents somewhere, and the yard is the only somewhere left.
Construction is one of the largest industries in this city. Tools that earn a living deserve better than a tarp.
Anything heavy enough to eat a weight allowance and useful enough to keep. Locked, dry and still here when you get back.
Established lawns and mature trees on lots that have been growing since the sixties.
Bikes, sports equipment and seasonal storage, out of the hallway and off the patio.
A motorcycle or a long-term project, under a locked roof rather than under hail.
What has to fit, what your gate measures, and whether you are inside city limits or on the Fort Worth side of the line.
A real number with options priced separately. Nothing appears later that was not on the quote.
We complete the accessory building application with the site plan and square footage, then level and prepare the pad.
Framed on your lot or delivered and set. We clean up behind ourselves before we leave.
It can, and this is the most practical reason we get called by families at the base. A permanent change of station ships your household goods up to a weight allowance set by rank, and anything past that is on you. Tools, lawn equipment, seasonal gear and workshop items are heavy and rarely worth shipping twice. A building keeps them here, dry and locked, instead of counting against the move.
You are not alone, and the city's own paperwork proves it. White Settlement's permit fee schedule carries a line item specifically for residential remodels including garage enclosure, which tells you how routinely it happens here. The trouble is that converting a garage creates a bedroom and deletes the only storage the house had. A building in the back yard puts that square footage back without touching the house.
Plan on it. Accessory building is a listed project type right on the city's general permit application, and the submission asks for a site plan, square footage and plan sets. The city has not published a size below which you can skip the process, so we would rather ask than assume. Call Permits on Meadow Park Drive, or let us handle the application as part of the job.
The median home here was built around 1966, so we work on a lot of them. Matching an older house is less about ordering a color and more about reading what has already weathered. We pull siding profile and shingle tone against what is actually on the wall now rather than against what it was when new. A building that matches a sixty-year-old house looks intentional; one that matches the original spec does not.
It gives you both problems at once. This part of Tarrant County sits on the Grand Prairie, where shallow clay lies over limestone and marl. The clay shrinks through a dry August and swells after heavy rain, which racks a badly blocked building until the doors bind. The rock underneath means pier depth is not a fixed number. We level and prepare the pad first and check what is actually down there.
That is your call, and it is worth deciding before we build rather than after. A permanently founded building stays with the property and generally reads as an asset to the next buyer, particularly on a small lot where storage is the thing everyone wants. If you would rather it be movable, tell us at quote time, because it changes the foundation approach and what the city expects to see.
Tell us the lot, the gate width and what has to fit inside. You get a written number with the options priced separately. 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