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Main Bathroom - The Adored Abode

Main Closet Renovation – The Before & Plans

Our main bathroom renovation has been complete for a few months now and we are loving it! As part of the bathroom renovation we had our contractor completely reconfigure the existing bathroom and closet space to make the layout more usable and functional for us. The bathroom itself actually because a little smaller (though it now makes a much bigger impact!) and we increased the size of the closet. The contractor completely finished the bathroom, but we had him leave…

Main Bathroom Reveal - The Adored Abode

How Much Does a Bathroom Renovation Cost?

The burning question we had before we embarked on our bathroom renovation was how much is this all going to cost us? We knew we wanted to fully gut our bathroom and do a little rearranging of plumbing, electrical, and fixtures. Since this was going to be a big job, we decided to hire it out. We love DIYing, but also needed to be realistic of how long a project like this would have taken us. Hint: much, much longer…

Main Bathroom Reveal - The Adored Abode

Main Bathroom Renovation Reveal

The main bathroom is officially complete! The renovation work has been done for a few months now, but I slowly added all of the finishing decor touches and I feel like I can finally say it's complete now. I'm sure I will swap a few things out over time, mainly smaller decor pieces because I can't help myself, but for now it's perfect. We made the actual footprint of the bathroom a lot smaller than it used to be to…

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Tudor Style Exterior Progress

When we moved into our home a little over 4 years ago the front landscaping was very overgrown. Over the years we slowly replaced all of the landscaping and removed a few trees that were too close to the house or rotting from ant damage. We also had the exterior painted and had a new stamped concrete patio installed - it has made a world of a difference! This has all been over the course of 4 years. Unless you…

Main Bathroom - The Adored Abode

The Finishing Touch in the Bathroom – Adding a Custom Roman Shade

The post is in partnership with Alva. All thoughts and opinions are my own. For more information, see my disclosures here.  Our main bathroom renovation is nearly complete. The only thing we were missing was a new window shade to tie in with the rest of the space. As a reminder, this was my original design inspiration for the space. The bathroom previously had faux wood slat blinds. The blinds were functional, but lacked some softness and texture that I wanted…

Modern Traditional Bathroom - The Adored Abode

Bathroom Updates: Art & Cabinet Hardware

Our bathroom is so very close to officially being complete! We have been using it for a few months now and love, love, love it! I still can't believe it's our bathroom. We were living upstairs during the bathroom renovation and we finally moved back downstairs a few weekends ago with the help of Nathan's brother! We are still waiting to finish our closet... Ikea is now opening up again (we plan to use the Ikea PAX system for our…

Linen Closet Refresh - The Adored Abode

Tips for Hiring and Working With Contractors

Throughout the 4 years we’ve lived at our house we have hired our fair share of contactors for various projects, large and small. We like to do projects ourselves when we can, but we know there are limits to our skills, resources, and time. Below is a list of all the projects we have hired out. Not to say you (or we) couldn’t do some of these ourselves, we just chose not to due to either the time or skill…

Master Bathroom Renovation - The Adored Abode

Master Bathroom – The Before and Renovation Plans

We have spent the past month getting ready for our master bathroom renovation to start! We decided to hire the whole bathroom renovation out - which is not something we've ever done. It feels strange to have someone else executing the plan we have so carefully put together. The Before Before I get to our plan for the renovated space I wanted to share the before pictures so you can see where we started! Our bathroom currently doesn't have a…

Simple Decor - The Adored Abode

What Would We Do Differently? – Kitchen Edition

Renovations are exciting, invigorating, and exhausting all at the same time. There are so many decisions you have to make along the way and it is draining. At some point I usually hit a decision fatigue wall and start making impulse decisions. This definitely happened in our phase 1 kitchen renovation. We did this as an effort to give our existing kitchen a few extra years of life before it needs a full gut renovation, which would be “phase 2”.…

Modern Traditional Living Room | The Adored Abode

A Look Ahead to 2020

Last year I wrote a 2019 project preview post and I loved to look back to see how much we truly did accomplish in 2019 and wanted to do the same for 2020! Below are all of the projects we hope to accomplish in 2020. The projects are a mix of big and small – some are whole room renovations, others are simple updates. Our house is very much a work in progress and I want to do a better job of…