by David Logan | Jan 28, 2026 | Quality Materials, Restoration
Introduction Renovating a log cabin is both an involved and deeply rewarding process. This particular cabin, located in Clarke County, Virginia, is difficult to date precisely. Based on the wood quality and workmanship, we estimate its construction to be mid-19th...
by David Logan | Dec 12, 2024 | Millwork, Restoration
Historic windows are our passion; we specialize in making replicas, or restoring originals. The traditional windows Vintage crafts are for the period home. Please contact us if we can help. 540-545-8880 or David@vintagebuilding.com Our windows are made using the...
by David Logan | Oct 31, 2023 | Millwork, Quality Materials, Restoration
This ranks up there with my favorite kinds of projects. This job entailed the structural upgrades of the oldest (known) house in Stephens City, Virginia. It is part of the museum called the ‘Stone House Foundation’. This house is known as the Stone...
by David Logan | Jan 12, 2021 | Renovation, Restoration
At Vintage we have done many roof structure restorations, to prepare an old building for a new roof. On old work, our historical methodology is that you follow the roof planes as they are. Flattening the planes ‘sterilizes’ the historical look of an old...
by David Logan | Nov 1, 2019 | Millwork, Renovation, Restoration
Traditional wood window sashes are such an important part of an old building. When they are right, they add so much character and quality to a building. We just finished a batch of window sashes for a log cabin project in Tennessee. These are Sapele, and we used our...
by David Logan | Oct 11, 2019 | Millwork, Quality Materials, Restoration
Today, I want to discuss historic wood floors. The wood floors that we encounter in our work are often heart pine, sometimes oak or chestnut. Let’s say they were laid in the early 1800s, which means it would have been cut from mature trees. These trees could...
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