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Do We Like Our Dark Hardwood Flooring? - The Adored Abode

Why We Chose Dark Hardwood Flooring and Would We Do It Again?

When we first moved into our house there was carpet in nearly every room, aside from the bathrooms, kitchen, and entryway. The carpet had certainly seen better days and was in desperate need of replacing. We we dreamed of replacing it with a beautiful medium or dark hardwood flooring. We ripped up all the carpet on the main floor and lived with sub floors for a few months (knowing we would do the upstairs in the same flooring down the…

Toddler Room Reveal

Toddler Bedroom Reveal

With a baby boy on the way we are aiming to wrap up a few house projects before he makes his arrival. One of those being switching Leo to his new "big" toddler room. Leo's big bedroom is now finished and he loves it! My goal was to create a sweet, toddler bedroom that could grow with him over time, which is a large part of the reason we jumped right to a queen size bed (hoping he will have…

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Playroom - The Adored Abode

Playroom Reveal

Last fall I set out to make Nathan's office on our main level into a playroom! Nathan recently took a new job and is now working in the office most of the time, so we felt it made sense to swap the room to a main level playroom instead. Now the playroom is finished and we are so happy with it! All sources linked at bottom of post for reference. I shared the plan we had for Nathan's office, but…

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Simple Upstairs Office Refresh – The Reveal

The upstairs office is done!! For now, because is a room ever really done? Our house is always evolving with the changes of our life and I think that's the way it should be. I now have a workspace that feels quite relaxing and calming to me, which is so nice when my day job gets a little hectic. It's quiet too because I have a door now! Our office space downstairs that I was previously using is more of…

Upstairs Office Refresh - The Adored Abode

How to Create a Design Board Using PowerPoint

We've been doing a lot of talk about sharing designs for upcoming projects (currently our upstairs office!) and one staple we use to visualize a space are design boards. There are a ton of tools that can be used to create design boards (think Canva or Photoshop), but one of my go to's is a simple process in Microsoft PowerPoint. Something you likely already have on your computer, which makes it even easier! PowerPoint has a simple photo editing ability…

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Main Closet Renovation – The REVEAL

Our main closet renovation has been a long time coming. We renovated our main bathroom in the spring of 2020 and at the same time had the space for the closet prepped and ready for a closet install (floors & drywall installed), while we planned to tackle the actual closet install a little later. Well... a little later turned into over a year later thanks for pandemic related building supply issues, having a baby, and figuring out how to do…

Tips to survive a DIY or Renovation with your Significant Other

5 Tips to survive a DIY or Renovation with your Significant Other

We've been doing DIY and renovation projects together for a long time now (coming up on 9 years?! where has time gone?). We are by no means professionals, but we have learned a few things along the way that have helped us make the process of DIY and renovation projects not just survival, but actually enjoyable. Here are 5 tips to think about when working on a DIY or renovation project with your significant other. Start small Much like you…

Tudor Style Exterior - The Adored Abode

2022: First Half Plans at a Glance

I realize it's now halfway through February, but we've had a lot going on over here at the Adored Abode, including a career change, a positive COVID test and a resulting vacation reschedule. We have big plans for 2022, a lot of these plans focus on consistency, showing up and improving each and every day. So expect to hear more from us in 2022 than you did in the second half of 2021. In exciting news, I've brought in my…

Guest Room Refresh - The Adored Abode

Guest Room Refresh

I shared our guest room plans months ago and truthfully the guest room has now been finished (and photographed) for months, but alas I am just getting around to writing the post. This post contains affiliate links for your convenience. Where the exact item I own is no longer available I have linked a similar option. For more information, see my disclosures here.  It feels so nice to have a much more put together guest room for when we have people…