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Our New Bedroom: Aesthetic & Decor Ideas

Come see all of the design and decor details and restful bedroom aesthetic we have planned for our new, cottage cozy primary bedroom!

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Why We Love Our Luxury Vinyl Plank Flooring After Putting it to the Test for Years

Flooring update! We’re showing you a little bit of our new bedroom and talking about why we’re even more in love with our flooring now after putting it to the test for years!

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All About Our Home’s Resilient Flooring & Why We Chose & Love Our Luxury Vinyl Plank Floors 2 Years Later

After living with our flooring for a couple of years, we’re finally ready to share all about our home’s resilient flooring and why we chose and love our luxury vinyl plank floors. Included are all of the details you need to know about our flooring’s beauty, affordability, durability, indoor air quality and sustainability!

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The Most Clicked Cottage Style Home Decor Items On Our Blog in 2020

Thanks to a lot of time snuggling up at home, we tackled a lot of house projects, put our home decor to the test and shared some fun new cottage style home decor finds we loved. So today we’re sharing the most-clicked decor items and fan favorites from right here on the blog in 2020!

Cheap and Affordable Farmhouse Wall Sconces by top Phoenix cottage lifestyle blogger, Love & Specs

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Cheap and Affordable Farmhouse Wall Sconces That Instantly Upgrade Any Space

Sconces are just so much fun, aren’t they? After spending so much time at home as of late, we’ve been focusing on easy and affordable ways to upgrade the spaces around our home, and I can’t think of a more approachable way to upgrade a room than to swap out or add fun lighting, specifically a wall sconce or two! So today I’m rounding up all of my favorite cheap, super stylish, cottage-perfect sconces from around the web for every single space inside and outside your home. Come see all of the wall sconce styles to love!

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DIY Home Decor Tutorial: Another Fresh, Fun Painted Furniture – How To Paint a Console Table

I warned you that no piece of furniture in our house was safe from my paint brush, and apparently I wasn’t kidding! Today I’m walking you through yet another fresh, fun DIY painted furniture how to via a beat up old Craigslist console table that was in serious need of a Cinderella-style makeover. Plus, I’m talking all about my anxiety when it comes to choosing the perfect paint color and how this project helped me find a new cottage-perfect paint color I absolutely love!

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Cottage Style Spring Home Decor to Love: Floral Prints, Pastels & Woven Accents Galore!

The spring season is my favorite time of year to refresh and stock up on home decor and that’s definitely because the home decor that hits the shelves (and the web) during this magical time of year definitely speaks to a cottage style lover like myself, with tons of pretty florals, pastels, fresh greenery and woven accents in abundance! Spring has pretty much arrived here in Phoenix, but just in case you’re stuck in colder climates we’re here to lift your spirits by rounding up some fun and awesomely affordable spring-inspired cottage decor finds, so you can inject some spring sunshine into your home no matter what the weather looks like outside your window and save some pennies, too!

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Budget-Friendly Cottage Headboards We Love: Upholstered, Wood, Seagrass, Metal & More

We love this topic and it seems like you guys do, too so today we’re taking a deep dive into the bedroom decor piece that you can have tons of fun with and that can serve as the centerpiece that brings a bedroom space to life – headboards! Specifically, we’re talking about all of the cheap (as in budget-friendly) cottage style headboards we love from around the web, including seagrass and other natural materials, upholstered, wood, metal and more! What are you waiting for? Your perfect headboard awaits!

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Our 10 Most Popular Cottage Style Home Decor Finds of 2019

In case you missed any of the action this year or are getting ready to tackle some fun room makeovers or decor updates of your own in 2020, we rounded up the ten most-clicked cottage style home decor items that we shared here on the blog and on Instagram in 2019, and we’re breaking down where each of these live in our home, why we love them and showing pictures of most of the items in our spaces!

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Our Entryway & Guest Bedroom Decor Refresh Ideas Made Easy

Today we’re sharing our super simple, cottage-inspired entryway and guest bedroom makeovers full of easy decor ideas. Even better, we’re sharing the recent home improvement revelation that has been a total game-changer for us and allowed us to kick the “hangxiety” and hang anything and everything with ease – High & Mighty! Seriously, friends, if you’ve ever hung anything or plan on hanging anything on your drywall in the future, you need this in your life!

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A Cottage-Perfect Natural, Pickled Wood Dresser Makeover

I’m SO excited for today’s DIY pickled wood dresser makeover tutorial because this is a project I’ve been dying to tackle for a few years, and I was so happy that I finally found the perfect piece to try the pickling technique on! We’re giving you all of the details on this beautiful antique wood dresser’s multiple makeovers, breaking down what the pickling technique is exactly and talking you through how we took this dresser from pink to pickled in just a few easy steps!

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Our Favorite White Bedding and Towels: Tried, Tested and Loved

White linens are super dreamy and one of our first home decor loves, but they can get a bad wrap on the practicality front, so we thought we’d kick off a fun new series here on the blog by giving you all of the details on the white bedding and towels we absolutely love in our house that are not only soft and snuggly as can be, but stand up to wear and tear like total champs. White linen lovers – this one’s for you!

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Been cooking up something special for 2023! 💕@olcartier #baby #babygirl #babyblog
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Game. Changer. 🥰 This was my first request when we talked about the shower with our builder @hill.farm.design & now that we’re in here, I can confidently say that it was 100% worth it! #bathroomdesign #bathroomremodel #bathroomdecor #bathroomrenovation
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It’s the heated shower bench for me 🧖‍♀️ Our new primary bath is finally finished & you can just find me here for the foreseeable future, k? 🫧 #bathroomdesign #bathroomrenovation #bathroomdecor
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#Ad The perfect celebratory cocktail! Chris is whipping up his special NYE cocktail, the Pomegranate Paloma Spritz with his favorite tequila, @lobos1707 Joven as the star of the show! Screenshot the end of the vid to save this recipe that I 100% think you need in your life, or find it below.  You can find Lobos 1707 Tequila & Mezcal at your local @totalwine or buy online with link here: https://bit.ly/ShopLobos1707 (linked in bio) #Lobos1707Holiday #Lobos1707NYE
POMEGRANATE PALOMA SPRITZ
To cocktail shaker add:
1 oz grapefruit juice
.25 oz pomegranate juice
1 oz simple syrup
1.5 oz Lobos 1707 Joven Tequila
ice
shake vigorously
rim glass with black salt
add pomegranate seeds to shaker
add mixture to glass
top with sparkling Rosé
garnish with dehydrate grapefruit wheel
Put on your party hat 🥳
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Our NEW fun, totally free 2022 Holiday Phone Wallpapers in collaboration with the incredible @rhianawni are on the blog ready for you to download, share with friends & enjoy & I hope you love this vibrant, festive set as much as I do! Happy holidays, friends!🎄
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Making a beautiful, moisturizing soap at home is almost TOO easy using the method I shared on the blog & it makes such a fun holiday gift idea for friends, neighbors, fam, teachers & anyone else in your life who likes a good pamper sesh. Head to the link in my bio if you need a fun, easy, zen holiday craftivity in your life rn 🧼🫧 #holidays #christmasdiy #diygifts #homemadesoap

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