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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…

Faux Concrete Counters - The Adored Abode
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…

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…

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…

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…

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 Bathroom - The Adored Abode

Rookie Reno Lessons: 10 Tiling Tips

Today I’m back with the third edition of Rookie Reno Lessons (see the lessons we learned about prepping subfloor for flooring install here and lessons we learned selected paint colors here). When we bought our home over 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…

Front Porch Refresh - The Adored Abode

6 Tips for Selecting an Exterior Paint Color

I have mentioned it before, but our we had our exterior painted late this summer. Yes, I have been holding out on you - a reveal is coming soon! Before revealing the finished product I want to dive into how we decided on the exterior paint color scheme. There are many, many things to consider when selecting an exterior paint color. So much thought went into this decision! Selecting exterior paint colors felt like such a big thing to me…

Top Tools for New Homeowners & Beginner DIYers - The Adored Abode