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Design-Build General Contractor, Loudoun County

Home Remodeling in Leesburg, VA

Whole-home renovations for people who would rather fix the house they have than start over somewhere else

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

Quality Construction and Remodeling Services in Leesburg

Most whole-home renovations in Leesburg begin as an argument with a spreadsheet.

The house is in the right place. The commute works, the schools are settled, and you know your neighbors. What does not work is the plan: a kitchen cut off from everything, a primary suite that felt generous in 1994 and does not now, a stair landing wasting the best light in the house, and a basement that has been called future space for a decade. Moving solves it on paper. Then you look at what the same money buys elsewhere in Leesburg and the argument turns back around.

A whole-home renovation is a different animal from a series of rooms done one at a time, and treating it as the latter is the most common way these projects go wrong. Sequence is the whole game. Structure comes before mechanical, mechanical before insulation and drywall, and each of those decisions constrains everything after it. Change the plan at drywall and you are not making a small change, you are unwinding three trades and a week of other people’s work.

That is why we settle scope, materials, and budget in full before demolition, and why the number you approve is the number you plan against rather than an opening position. It is also why one company should carry the whole job. We hold the general contractor role on your project and we do the design in house. Wayne Foley draws it, Shawn Foley builds it, and Harry Neidig runs the site day to day. Nothing gets handed across a company boundary where the reasoning behind a decision quietly falls out.

Leesburg adds its own wrinkle. Whole-home work here often means an older house that has been altered more than once, so the drawings have to account for what previous owners did as much as for what you want. We would rather find that during design than during demolition, which is why the survey work happens early and honestly.

You will live with some version of this for months, so we make the process legible. Your client portal carries the schedule, the selections, every change order, and daily progress. Our Leesburg clients raise it with us more often than they raise any finish we installed.

Our Leesburg 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 Leesburg 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 Leesburg and Surrounding Areas

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

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Our History in Leesburg

Leesburg grew in layers, and a whole-home renovation is usually a negotiation with all of them at once. The oldest fabric sits around the Loudoun County Courthouse and the blocks near the Thomas Balch Library, where houses have been altered repeatedly and no two floor levels quite agree with each other.

Move outward past Ida Lee Park and the stock shifts to mid-century, built when rooms were separate by intention rather than by accident. Keep going east toward the Village at Leesburg and River Creek and it changes again, into late-century subdivisions with open plans that were open in only one direction.

Each layer fails differently, and that is the useful thing to know before scoping a project. The old houses hide their structure and hold their surprises behind plaster. The newer ones hide nothing at all, but they were built to a plan that assumed a household that no longer exists, so the work is about intent rather than excavation. Knowing which kind of Leesburg house you are standing in changes how a renovation gets scoped, staged, and sequenced, and that judgment comes from having worked across the whole range in Loudoun County rather than from a checklist.

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What Homeowners Say About Our Leesburg 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 - Leesburg Remodeling

Should we renovate or move?

That is a real question and we will give you a straight answer, including when the answer is move. If the location is right and the structure is sound, renovating usually wins. If you are fighting the footprint itself, an addition or a different house may be the better call, and we would rather say so early than build you something expensive that does not solve the problem you actually have.

Can we live in the house during a whole-home renovation?

Sometimes, and it depends on how much of the mechanical system goes down at once. Where it is possible we stage the work so you keep a functioning kitchen or bathroom for as long as we can manage. Where it is not possible, we tell you that during planning rather than six weeks into the job.

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

Both, and deliberately. We hold the general contractor role on your Leesburg project and we do the design in house, so there is no gap between the drawing and the build where intent gets lost in translation. We build to a standard, not just a code.

How do you keep a project this size from drifting?

Scope, materials, and budget are settled before demolition, and every change after that is a written change order you approve before it happens. Your client portal shows the schedule, the selections, and the current number at all times, so nothing arrives as a surprise bill at the end of the job.