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Home Remodeling in Ashburn, VA

Whole-home renovation for houses that were built well for a household that has since changed

  • Second-Generation Builder
  • 35+ Years of Hands-On Experience
  • Design and Build Under One Roof
  • Licensed Virginia Contractor

Quality Construction and Remodeling Services in Ashburn

A lot of Ashburn housing is now old enough to need a second act, and young enough that gutting it would be a waste.

The homes in Ashburn Village, Ashburn Farm, Broadlands, and Brambleton were built to a decent standard, on plans that made sense for the buyers they were drawn for. Two decades on, the structure is fine and the systems are approaching a decision point, while the floor plan is quietly out of step with the household living in it. The formal living room has become a room you walk through. The home office was a bedroom that lost. Everyone congregates in one end of the house and the other end is storage with good lighting.

That is a whole-home renovation rather than a rescue. The distinction matters because it changes where the money should go. In an older house a large share of the budget disappears into things you will never see, correcting what previous decades did. In an Ashburn house far more of it can go into the parts you live with, because the framing is sound and the plan is legible before you open a wall.

What it demands instead is discipline about sequence. Whole-home work is not a series of rooms done consecutively, and treating it that way is the most common way these projects drift. Structure before mechanical, mechanical before insulation and drywall, and every one of those decisions narrowing what comes after. Changing your mind at drywall does not cost you a day, it unwinds three trades. So we settle scope, materials, and budget in full before demolition, and the number you approve is the number you plan against.

We hold the general contractor role and we do the design in house. Wayne Foley draws it, Shawn Foley builds it, and Harry Neidig runs the site. In Ashburn’s planned communities there is usually an architectural review for anything touching the exterior, and that goes into the schedule at the start.

You will live with this for months, so your client portal carries the schedule, the selections, every change order, and daily progress. Clients raise it with us long after the work is finished.

Our Ashburn Remodeling Services

Kitchen Remodeling

Kitchen remodels from a focused refresh to a complete reconfiguration. We plan every detail up front, keep you updated through your client portal, and build a kitchen that holds up to the life you actually live in it.

Bathroom Remodeling

Bathroom remodels from clean refreshes to full reconfigurations, small baths through high-end primary suites. Planned in detail, kept on schedule through your client portal, and built to a standard.

Whole Home Renovations

Complete whole-home renovations that reimagine how your house lives, from layout through finishes. One team carries the work from design to the final walkthrough, so nothing gets handed off and lost.

Home Additions

Home additions that add the space your family needs and read as though the house was always that size. We match rooflines, materials, and detailing so the new work disappears into the original.

Home Building

Ground-up custom homes built around how you live rather than around a floor plan someone else drew. Design happens in the family, with Wayne Foley on the drawings and Shawn on the job site.

Carriage Home Building

Carriage houses and accessory dwellings that add living, guest, or work space with the same craftsmanship as the main home. Useful for multi-generational households and for property owners who need real square footage, not a shed.

Detached Garage Construction

Custom detached garages built to match the house they sit behind, from a single bay to a multi-car build with storage or finished living space above.

Barn Construction

Custom barns and outbuildings for storage, workshops, equipment, and horses, sized to your land and built to a standard rather than to a kit.

Commercial Construction

Commercial tenant fit-outs and new commercial construction, from demolition through a finished, move-in-ready space. Scoped and priced per project.

Why Ashburn Homeowners Choose Us

Second-Generation Builders, Not a Sales Office

Shawn Foley has been on job sites for 35-plus years and his father Wayne handles design. The drawings and the build come from the same family, so what gets designed is what actually gets built.

You Always Know Where the Project Stands

Every client gets a portal with the schedule, selections, change orders, and daily progress. It is the thing our clients mention most, because knowing what happens next is most of what makes a build bearable.

We Build to a Standard, Not Just a Code

Code is the floor, not the target. We plan scope, materials, and budget before a single wall moves, so the number you approve is the number you plan against.

Serving Ashburn and Surrounding Areas

Proudly serving Ashburn, VA and the wider 30 mile radius.

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Our History in Ashburn

Ashburn went from farmland to one of the fastest-growing communities in Virginia inside a generation, and its housing stock reflects a compressed, deliberate build-out rather than a slow accumulation.

Ashburn Village and Ashburn Farm established the pattern, planned neighborhoods delivered as wholes. Broadlands and Brambleton extended it at larger scale, and Belmont Country Club added another register again. Later, One Loudoun and Loudoun Station arrived as mixed-use centers, and the Janelia Research Campus and the surrounding technology corridor changed who was moving here and what they wanted from a house.

The practical consequence is a large inventory of well-built homes that all reached middle age at roughly the same time, owned now by people whose lives look nothing like the buyer profile the plans were drawn for. Remote work turned a spare bedroom into a requirement, and multi-generational households turned a first-floor bedroom into a reason to stay put.

That is the renovation opportunity here, and it is a different one from older parts of Loudoun County. You are not repairing decades of accumulated compromise. You are taking a sound house that was designed for someone else and making it fit the people actually living in it.

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What Homeowners Say About Our Ashburn Work

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Melody Bell
3 years ago
We had 2 bathrooms redone by Foley Construction. 1st bathroom was hall bathroom. Complete gut. Everything from start to finish was perfect. In hall bath took pictures before Mirror and cabinet above tiller was installed. Next was our Masterbath. We did a complete gut and a total reconfiguration. Worked together to come up with an amazing bathroom. Shower doors for Masterbath had to be special ordered. So pictures reflect before doors being installed. Communication daily from the supervisor of the project. I couldn’t recommend them enough.
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Jeffrey Brown
4 years ago
They did a great job renovating a kitchen and bathroom. They pay attention to detail and are very responsive. We liked their work, so we had them tackle a much bigger job for us--building a barn. The job was challenging because the access was limited. They fixed the access problem and designed and built a quality barn that meets our needs--and it looks great too!
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Jane Trenary
4 years ago
I was very happy with the work of Foley Construction and Contracting. Shawn Foley was very responsive and professional. He managed the necessary contractors to complete a feature wall in living room which included installing reclaimed wood, lighting fixtures, moving of electrical outlets and cabinet installation. The work was excellent, on-time and looks phenomenal.
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Maria Burke
4 years ago
Remodeled complete interior of condo after major water damage. Included full kitchen remodel with custom features, laundry and bathroom improvements, new flooring and painting throughout. Excellent workmanship. Very helpful in complex dealings with my insurance, my condo association and their insurance. Very happy with the results. Highly recommend him!
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Tracy Sheppard
4 years ago
My family used Foley Construction for a home remodel in 2021- garage conversion, kitchen & bathroom remodel, windows & more. They were attentive and supportive to our needs & budget. From design stages through completion we were fully informed throughout the process. Time lines & costs lined up as promised. High quality workers and attention to detail yielded beautiful results. I have been so pleased, I do not hesitate to recommend them to my friends.
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Zach Zukowski
4 years ago
Shawn and his team were great to work with. His team worked with me on a second floor renovation to my 100 year old house. New roof and added dormers. The online platform was extremely helpful, received daily updates with who was on-site with pictures of the work (very helpful because I would usually only be able to check at night). Project management per task, emails, invoicing, and messaging on the platform. Very slick interface was not expecting when working with a contractor. Extremely knowledgeable team and would give honest insight when some things I thought I wanted weren't worth it even though it would have netted them more profit. Honest and reliable, always available whenever I had any changes or ideas. Great to work with, 10/10 would recommend to anyone looking to do any type of home renovation (which is saying something with a century old house) and in this current market where getting anyone is hard to come by. So happy I found Shawn and his team!
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LAURA Sunden
4 years ago
Foley Construction finished a portion of our unfinished basement and converted it into a home gym space. The project consisted of building walls, insulation, electric, plumbing, HVAC, flooring, painting, crown molding, customer cabinetry and custom mirrors for the walls. The project was planned and executed as expected. His Project Managment Software Tool allowed us to select design options and make milestone payments upon completion. His team was very respectful, on time and highly professional. It was a fully turnkey solution aside from allowing us to pick recommended colors and design options. We wouldn’t hesitate to hire them for future projects.

Frequently Asked Questions - Ashburn Remodeling

Is our Ashburn house too new to renovate?

No, and in some ways it is the ideal candidate. The structure is sound, so almost none of your budget disappears into correcting old work. What you are changing is a floor plan that was drawn for a buyer profile rather than for your household, which is a design problem and a very solvable one.

Are you a general contractor or a design-build firm?

Both, deliberately. We hold the general contractor role on your Ashburn project and Wayne Foley does the design in house, so there is no boundary between the drawing and the build where the reasoning gets lost. We build to a standard, not just a code.

Can we stay in the house during the work?

Often yes, and Ashburn floor plans tend to help because the house can frequently be worked in sections. It depends on how much of the mechanical system goes down at once. Where staying is realistic we sequence to keep a kitchen or bathroom in service, and where it is not we say so during planning.

What about HOA and architectural review?

Most of Ashburn’s planned communities have a review process for exterior changes. We establish what applies to your property early and build the timeline around it, because finding out mid-project is how schedules slip for reasons that had nothing to do with the construction.