Listed in the National Register of Historic Places and the Virginia Landmarks Register, The Oaks was built in the early 1930’s and suffered a devastating fire in 2007.
It took approximately 250,000 gallons of water to put out this fire. Deerchase was on site to stabilize this structure the day after the fire and remained there to lead the reconstruction effort for two years. To read about this fascinating project, and all that was involved, click this link: Restoring the Oaks. (Interior Design by Letitia Ord) |
This beautiful home, built in the mid-nineteenth century, had an original front porch built with hand made nails. It is quite rare in this day and age for a pre-civil war home to still have its original porch due to decay from exposure to the elements over the years. The elements finally won out when a large tree fell on the front of the house during a big storm. The porch, many of the windows, and the roof were severely damaged.
In our work to repair the damage and restore the beauty of the house, we rebuilt the steps, railings and replaced one of the four columns of the porch. We custom milled 28 different moulding profiles to match the detail of the original porch! |
This is a pre-civil war cabin in which a fire started after the occupant improperly disposed of a cigarette and went to sleep. Thanks to a working smoke detector, she got out safely. The cabin, however, was severely damaged.
The work here gave us an opportunity to do it “the old way” while also completely upgrading to a modern infrastructure. We replaced the rafters and the whole roof system, entirely rebuilt the rear wall of the cabin and the back porch, rewired, replumbed, deodorized, and installed a new bathroom and kitchen. |
Deerchase was called to this job to demolish and rebuild a forty foot tall wooden silo which had been improperly built. Due to poor construction techniques, the original structure was severely rotting a mere three years after having been built. From the outside, this structure looks like an agricultural silo. The interior, however, houses both a circular staircase used to access the various floors of the adjacent structure as well as a cage ladder accessing the top floor of the silo itself. We lined it with tongue and groove pine and used western red cedar, which is very rot resistant, on the exterior. The roofing on the silo is a fiberglass dome made to look like an agricultural silo roof.
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In this build out, we transformed an empty retail space on the main street of Middleburg into Highcliffe Clothiers’s stunning new home. Highcliffe specializes in high end and bespoke clothing for men and women. The perimeter of the store is lined with traditionally detailed custom cabinetry and state of the art lighting. We installed a brick wall behind the seating area which features a tufted leather door we had made to look like the one in M’s office in the James Bond movies. Another fun detail is the secret door to the back area, which is concealed in the cabinetry.
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This project was an expansion of a pre-civil war two over two miller’s cabin into a large four bedroom house with a state-of-the-art infrastructure. The footprint of the house tripled in size and its overall square footage increased about fivefold.
Deerchase excavated underneath the cabin and supported it with oak cribbing and beams to create a full walk out basement (featuring a fire resistant safe room) and to add additions to either end. We dug a new well, installed water treatment, in floor radiant heat throughout the house and under the soapstone countertops, and four new bathrooms and a new kitchen. |
In this project, we completely dismantled and moved a house from Appomattox to Flint Hill and then rebuilt it, piece by piece. All the framing and every piece of interior woodwork was labeled prior to dismantling and moving.
This project received a lot of publicity and we encourage you to watch the videos below. |
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ABOUT DEERCHASEDeerchase LLC is a full service Class A general contractor located in Middleburg, Virginia. We specialize in traditional building techniques and the restoration of historic homes and barns in Virginia's hunt country.
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