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Light and Bright Powder Room - The Adored Abode

Rookie Reno Lessons: Selecting Paint Colors

Today I’m back with the second edition of Rookie Reno Lessons (see the lessons we learned about prepping subfloor for flooring install here). When we bought our home almost 3 years ago we were renovation newbies. Over the course of 3 years we have tackled many projects in our home and with each project comes a few new lessons learned, things we would have done differently, and things we wish we would have known ahead of time. This post is…

Favorite Painting Tools - The Adored Abode

Favorite Tools & Products for Painting

I was talking with one of my dear friends who just recently bought a house and she gave me a great idea for a few blog posts - my favorite tools and products I use for house projects. Standing in the hardware store and figuring out which product or tool to buy can be really overwhelming! I'm here to help you out and point you in the direction of the products I love and even some items I wish I…

Snowy Tudor Exterior - The Adored Abode

10 Things I Wish I’d Known Before Buying an Older Home

I want to preface this post by saying that I love our home. When we first walked through our house I knew it was ours. It just felt right. In April of 2016 we sold our brand-new home that we’d lived in for 2 years (we didn’t build it, but it was new when we bought it) in place of our current home that was built in 1980 that needed a good deal of updating. Many people thought we were…

Upstairs Bathroom Demo - The Adored Abode

Upstairs Bath: Demoing the Bathroom

Often times it can appear that home renovation projects happen quickly, but a majority of time that is the farthest from the truth. Especially if you are doing the work yourself or if work on the project is not your full time job. Since we do a majority of our renovation work ourselves, Nathan and I like to balance project time with what I'll call "life" time. We both enjoy working on projects, but since we have full-time jobs outside…

Upstairs Hallway Progress - The Adored Abode

How it’s Holding Up: Our Hardwood Floors

Shortly after we moved into our home almost 3 years ago we began the search to replace our flooring. Most of the flooring in our home was very old carpet, except for tile in the entryway and kitchen. Nathan and I both prefer hard floors over carpet, especially with two dogs who shed a lot and all too frequently track mud and dirt into the house. There's a real life we just moved in before. This post contains affiliate links…

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How to Make Grout Look New Again

When we first moved into our house our kitchen looked a little something like this. Knowing a full kitchen renovation would cost $$$ we decided to work with what we had, with the idea that 5-10 years down the road we would do the full kitchen renovation (or kitchen renovation 2.0 as we like to call it). A few months after we moved in we started to slowly update our kitchen. We removed a few cabinets above the stove and…

Upstairs Hallway Progress - The Adored Abode

Upstairs Bathroom Plans

After a lot of mulling and many, many re-designs our upstairs bathroom plans are finally complete. The bathroom's current state is... dated. We have made some updates in the 2.5 years we've lived here, but they were temporary fixes until we got to the full scale renovation, which is finally here!! This post contains affiliate links for your convenience. For more information, see my disclosures here.  This was what the bathroom looked like when we moved it. The pink and maroon…

Upstairs Hallway Progress - The Adored Abode

Staircase & Upstairs Hallway Progress

Oh, our staircase and upstairs hallway. I have been putting off writing this post. Why you may ask? Honestly, because I was terrible at blogging in 2018 and did not share about any of the progress we have made upstairs (unless you follow me on Instagram where I shared sneak peaks in my stories and posts), life happened and blogging didn't - you can read more about that here. I aim to change that because I honestly love blogging and…

Modern Traditional Office - The Adored Abode

Fall One Room Challenge – Week 6: Office Reveal

  Today's the day! It’s week 6 of the One Room Challenge - which means it's reveal day!! If you missed the first weeks you can catch up on them here: week 1, week 2, week 3, week 4, and week 5! If you are new to the blog, welcome! I am a financial auditor by day and started this blog to pursue my passion of design, renovation, and all things home. We bought our house two and half years ago and are slowly renovating…

Modern Traditional Office - The Adored Abode

Fall One Room Challenge – Week 5: Final Stretch

It’s week five of the One Room Challenge. If you missed the first weeks you can catch up on them here: week 1, week 2, week 3, and week 4! If you are new to the blog, welcome! I am a financial auditor by day and started this blog to pursue my passion of design, renovation, and all things home. We bought our house two and half years ago and are slowly renovating it room by room. We are overhauling an upstairs bedroom that…