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Vintage Style Rug - The Adored Abode

Weekend Edition – 4.19.19

This post contains affiliate links for your convenience. For more information, see my disclosures here.  We have been busy getting quotes for revamping our exterior! Today we had 5 trees cut down (it makes me sooo sad to cut down trees, but they were just too close to our house!) so changes are already in progress. We also plan to have the exterior of our house painted and have a new patio installed with some much-needed drainage systems – our poor…

Spring Home Tour - The Adored Abode

Weekend Edition

Welcome to The Weekend Edition where I share everything from design ideas, home decor inspiration, and DIY, to life happening, products I am loving, organization tips, health and wellness and really any other topic as it comes to mind. This post contains affiliate links for your convenience. For more information, see my disclosures here.  It’s been a few weeks since I wrote a Weekend Edition post. Life has been a bit more full than normal recently. Two weekends ago, we went…

Kitchen Design - The Adored Abode

Weekend Edition

Welcome to The Weekend Edition where I share everything from design ideas, home decor inspiration, and DIY, to products I am loving, organization tips, health and wellness and really any other topic as it comes to mind. This post contains affiliate links for your convenience. For more information, see my disclosures here.  Fresh flowers are my way of tricking myself into thinking spring is coming despite the still frigid temps. This weekend we are headed to Dallas to see one of…

Modern Traditional Living Room - The Adored Abode

Weekend Edition

Welcome to The Weekend Edition where I share everything from design ideas, home decor inspiration, and DIY, to products I am loving, organization tips, health and wellness and really any other topic as it comes to mind. This post contains affiliate links for your convenience. For more information, see my disclosures here.  Despite our ongoing upstairs bathroom renovation (we are finally done with demo) I couldn't help but start another project. I usually have multiple going on around the house which…

Weekend Edition - The Adored Abode

Weekend Edition

Welcome to The Weekend Edition where I share everything from design ideas, home decor inspiration, and DIY, to products I am loving, organization tips, health and wellness and really any other topic as it comes to mind. This post contains affiliate links for your convenience. For more information, see my disclosures here.  I made a pretty big change up to my hair. I had around 7 inches cut-off and got balyage to lighten my hair up a bit. I am loving…

Modern Traditional Living Room - The Adored Abode

Weekend Edition

Welcome to The Weekend Edition where I share everything from design ideas, home decor inspiration, and DIY, to products I am loving, organization tips, health and wellness and really any other topic as it comes to mind. This post contains affiliate links for your convenience. For more information, see my disclosures here.  Demo starts on our upstairs bathroom this weekend! I can.not.wait. Emily Henderson recently posted about her paint color predictions for 2019. I was surprised to see a very similar…

Modern Traditional Living Room - The Adored Abode

Weekend Edition

Today marks the start of a new blog post series: The Weekend Edition. These posts will be similar to the Friday 5 posts I used to do, but a bit more casual. It's a place for me to share everything from design ideas, home decor inspiration, and DIY, to products I am loving, organization tips, health and wellness and really any other topic as it comes to mind. This post contains affiliate links for your convenience. For more information, see…

Modern Traditional Office - The Adored Abode

2019 Project Preview

2018 was a bit slow on many fronts in our house, see my recap of 2018 here, but we have big plans for 2019. Here's a preview of the house projects and blog plans for this next year! 1. Upstairs Bathroom Renovation We already renovated our half bathroom on our first floor (check out the reveal here), but for the first project of the year we want to tackle our upstairs bathroom. This is the main and only bathroom upstairs…

Simple and Modern Living Room - The Adored Abode

Goodbye 2018

We are almost a week into 2019 and I am honestly not sorry to see 2018 go. It has been a tough year in our house. It was a year of loss as well as a year of what felt like not a lot of progress on our house renovations or growth for my blog. Saying goodbye to our first two babies that we lost to miscarriages was the hardest thing I have ever experienced and recovering from two consecutive…

Life After Loss - The Adored Abode

Life After Loss – Saying Goodbye to Our First and Second Babies

I have been struggling with whether to share our story. After all, this is a place where I want to share happy, pretty things to inspire you to love your home. However, as you might have noticed, I haven’t shared a lot this year. I found it hard to share “normal” things when my heart has felt so heavy. Today I am choosing to share a (large) piece of our life. In the past 6 months we lost our first…