MASACO Construction is headquartered in Plano, and the houses we walk through here were mostly built between the mid 1970s and the late 1990s by production builders working from a handful of plans. A family in 2026 doesn’t live the way those plans assumed, and a whole-home remodel is how you correct that without giving up Plano ISD, the neighbors, and the short drive to the Tollway or US 75. Our whole-home remodeling service page covers everything we do; this page covers how those projects run in Plano.
The Plano floor plan and what it gets wrong today.
The typical West Plano 2-story in Hunters Glen, Whiffletree, Kings Ridge, or Prestonwood opens to a tall entry with a formal living room on one side and a formal dining room on the other. The kitchen sits behind the dining room, closed off from a family room at the back. Upstairs are 3 or 4 bedrooms, a hall bath or a jack-and-jill, and sometimes a game room over the garage.
East Plano ranches around Park Forest, Los Rios, and Timber Brook are single story, a decade or 2 older, with lower ceilings, smaller closets, and a living room separated from the kitchen by a full wall. Both types sit on a slab with a brick exterior, and both have square footage in the wrong places.
Formal living and dining rooms become space you actually use.
Together the front rooms are often 250 to 350 square feet with the best windows in the house, and they hold a piano and a table used twice a year. We convert them 4 ways most often: a study with glass doors off the entry; a first-floor guest suite with a bath, which means new plumbing in the slab; a kitchen that expands into the old dining room; or a walk-in pantry and mudroom off the garage entry.
The structural question is whether the arch or half-wall between the entry and the formal living room is carrying anything. In a 2-story entry it usually isn’t. The wall between the dining room and kitchen sometimes is, so a structural engineer sizes the beam and we carry the load to the slab. For the kitchen side, see kitchen remodeling in Plano.
Reconfiguring the second floor.
Upstairs is where 1980s and 1990s Plano plans get generous in the wrong way. Four small bedrooms and a single hall bath is a common layout. We combine 2 small bedrooms into a real secondary suite, turn a game room into a primary suite when parents want to be upstairs with the kids, or carve a second-floor laundry out of a closet so nobody hauls baskets down the stairs.
Second-floor work has a big advantage over the main floor: the framing is wood, so relocating drains means opening the ceiling below rather than cutting concrete. Ridgeview Ranch and Russell Creek homes from the 1990s often have plumbing stacks positioned so a new upstairs bath can tie in without a long run. We verify that at the site walk.
Kitchens, baths, and finishes in one coordinated scope.
Doing the kitchen this year and the baths next year means 2 rounds of dust, 2 permit cycles, and finishes that never quite match. A whole-home scope lets us run plumbing and electrical rough-in through the whole house at once, pick a flooring that runs continuously, and design the primary bath and kitchen from the same palette. See bathroom remodeling in Plano for what those 1980s garden-tub baths become. We also use the opening to fix what you can’t see: original cast iron drains in older East Plano ranches near the Douglass Community, undersized electrical panels, attic ductwork that leaks conditioned air, and thin insulation.
Windows, brick, and HOA architectural review.
Most Plano homes from this era still carry original aluminum windows, and replacing them is often part of a whole-home scope. Enlarging an opening in a brick wall means a new steel lintel and masonry work, and it changes the exterior, which puts it in front of your HOA’s architectural control committee. So do rear additions, a new front door, and changes to exterior color or masonry.
We read your covenants at the start, prepare the ACC submittal with elevations and material samples, and sequence the approval so interior work can start while the exterior review is in progress. In the downtown Plano historic district near 15th Street, the Heritage Commission also reviews exterior changes, and we build that into the schedule.
City of Plano permits and one manager for the whole job.
A whole-home project pulls building, electrical, plumbing, and mechanical permits from the City of Plano Building Inspections Department, with inspections at underground plumbing if we cut the slab, framing, each rough-in, insulation, and final. We hold the permits, schedule every inspection, and meet the inspector.
Our process is built for projects with this many moving parts. A consultation and site walk. A 3D design of the whole plan so you can see how the front rooms, kitchen, and second floor work together before anything is ordered. A fixed-scope proposal with allowances for unfinalized selections and written change orders for anything that shifts. One project manager for the entire job, a written photo update every week, a final walkthrough with a punch list, and a care guide covering every finish in the house. The full sequence is on our process page. We run the same projects in Tarrant County, covered under whole-home remodeling in Fort Worth, and everything we do in this city is on the Plano service area page.
If your Plano house has the right bones and the wrong plan, book a consultation and we’ll walk every room with you, tell you what the structure and slab allow, and show you the whole house in 3D before you commit.
