Serving West University Place, TX · Harris County
Meticulous craftsmanship, one attentive point of contact, and steady communication from the first walkthrough to the last — written scope before demo, no surprises, no horror stories.
TrueForm Remodeling serves all of West University Place — the Collegiate streets around Rice, Amherst, and Georgetown, Pemberton, Colonial Terrace, and the Colonial Park area. We build custom US-fabricated cabinetry, fine finish carpentry, high-efficiency windows and doors, and full kitchen, bath, whole-home, and addition projects. Every project starts with a fixed-price Good-Better-Best scope written before any demolition, so you see inclusions, allowances, and known risks up front. We are fully insured for general liability and workers' comp, and we pull and close every permit through the City of West University Place Community Development department. West U has no HOA — the city's own building code and plan review carry real weight on lot coverage, setbacks, trees, and drainage, and parts of the city sit in the floodplain. Whole-home and second-story additions are our core here, and a focused $10K project is welcome on the same terms.
West University Place is a small, tightly built city inside Houston, and its lots are the constraint that defines every remodel here. The Collegiate streets are lined with 1920s–40s bungalows and cottages on modest lots, many since replaced or expanded into two-story homes that push right up against the city's coverage limits. Pemberton and Colonial Terrace carry the same period bones at a larger scale. Because the lots are small and the city is fully built out, the most common projects are second-story additions, whole-home reconfigurations, and careful pop-tops that add space without breaking the setback and lot-coverage rules West U enforces closely. There is no HOA to answer to — the city's building code and plan review do that work instead, and they are thorough about drainage and stormwater because parts of West U flood. That changes how we detail an addition: finished-floor elevation, foundation, and site drainage get engineered early, not patched at the end. An older bungalow kitchen here often means opening plaster, re-routing dated wiring to code, and fabricating cabinetry that fits the room's real dimensions rather than a catalog. We hold custom cabinetry, fine finish carpentry, and high-efficiency window and door replacement in-house, so a single team owns the whole job and the scope is written to your lot, your house, and the review it will face.
In West U the work skews toward whole-home renovation, second-story additions, custom kitchens, and primary baths on tight lots. Our signature lines carry those projects: US-fabricated custom cabinetry and fine finish carpentry built to fit real room dimensions, European triple-glazed windows and doors for comfort and quiet on close-set lots, and Pella and Armstrong product where a homeowner wants a proven catalog option. Around those we run painting, flooring, and siding so one project manager owns the entire scope.
Greater Houston-area baseline ranges, calibrated to West University Place conditions before the quote is final. We give you Good, Better, and Best with itemized scope, permit assumptions, material allowances, and known risk items. You pick. No surprises mid-project.
Refresh, reconfigure, or rebuild — clear scope and a fixed price before any demo starts.
Master suites and guest baths — tile, plumbing, glass, and finish work all in-house.
Three-ton residential to whole-home zoned systems. Licensed and bonded HVAC division.
Cosmetic refresh to down-to-studs. Single project manager from start to handoff.
Concept visuals we use to align on direction before we write scope — kitchens, baths, whole-home, and exterior. These are planning renders, not photos of finished projects.
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Concept — planning visualTexas has no statewide general-contractor license, so permitting happens at the city level — and West University Place runs its own. Kitchen, bath, addition, and whole-home work involving plumbing, electrical, structural, or mechanical changes requires a permit and plan review through the City of West University Place Community Development department. Because West U has no HOA, the city code is the review: expect real scrutiny of lot coverage, setbacks, tree protection, and drainage, and expect floodplain and finished-floor elevation to drive additions in the flood-prone sections. We prepare the drawings, file the application, carry the plan review, schedule inspections, and close the permit before final payment.
Permit office: City of West University Place Community Development (westutx.gov/240/Permits). We pull every required permit and close it before final payment.
Local planning
Remodel schedules can be affected by permit queues, HOA review cycles, school calendars, weather, traffic, and neighborhood events. These are stable local resources to check while we build the written scope.
Protecting what stays is standard on every West University Place project — not an upgrade or a line item you have to ask for. Before demo we isolate the work zone so the rest of your home keeps living normally, and we leave it as clean as we found it.
Meticulous craftsmanship, one attentive point of contact, and steady communication from first walkthrough to final — a written scope before demo, so there are no surprises and no horror stories.