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A 5-Month Review of Our Pottery Barn White Couch: The Townsend Reversible Storage Chaise Sectional in Performance Boucle Oatmeal

We’re giving you a thorough update about how we’re liking our white Pottery Barn couch, the Townsend Reverse Chaise Sectional in their Performance Boucle Oatmeal fabric and how it’s holding up after 6 months of daily use. We’re also talking about how we clean this white couch and how it held up in the face of some pretty scary stains. Come see our full review and hear all about how the white couch saga panned out!

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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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Easy Ways to Make A Temporary House Feel Like Home with CORT Furniture

Today, with the help of furniture rental experts at CORT Furniture, we’re offering up our real, tried and tested tips to make any temporary or rental space feel like home so you can live comfortably in transition! Whether it’s moving temporarily for a job, waiting for a house to be built, or simply wanting the freedom to pick-up and try a new city, new state, or even just a new part of town the need for flexibility, budgetary creativity and ease of execution when decorating a space is top of mind right now, so let our expert tips help you make any temporary dwelling feel like home without the fuss!

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Easy Kitchen Decor Ideas for Entertaining Guests

Our kitchen is the epicenter of activity when we’re hosting and entertaining guests, so today we’re talking about all of the kitchen decor essentials that have made prepping to host and hosting so much easier (and prettier) for us and why we love them, which includes one of our very favorite things, the new Softsoap® Décor Collection®!

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Simple Winter DIY Home Decor Updates

This year we’re vowing to show you more of all of the small, simple, easy DIY home decor updates that happen so frequently around our house, so today we’re showing you two simple DIY decor projects tackled in our home over the holiday break that were as simple to execute as they were affordable, but served as major upgrades!

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Our Furniture Collection Celebrating Calico’s 70th Anniversary!

We’re celebrating Calico’s 70th anniversary in the most fun way we know how – with our very own collection of one-of-a-kind furniture! The entire collection of 10 unique pieces was inspired by Scandinavian farmhouse design, pairing fabrics in shades of blues, grays and aquas with my favorite Calico frames. Included you’ll find hard-working performance fabrics, stripes, buffalo checks and toiles, paired with stylish frames – all made in the USA of the highest quality and all an incredible value!

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DIY Rocking Chair Makeover

It’s outdoor living season, people so we’re showing you our DIY front porch rocking chair makeover project and how we took these beat-up old chairs from someone’s trash to the painted treasures they are today, complete with step-by-step instructions and some seriously hilarious stories.

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The Ultimate Ikea Rast Hack

Featured in this DIY Ikea post are details for the best Ikea Rast hack featuring whitewashed wood, Anthropologie knobs, a driftwood stain and bun feet to give the Ikea Rast nightstand the perfect makeover.

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All about this perfect neutral paint color on the blog! Link is in my bio. We gave this dresser in our bedroom a little paint facelift & tried the color “Shiitake” by @sherwinwilliams . And we’re LOVING it! It’s such a beautiful grey-beige & would be so good in so many different spaces. #sherwinwilliamsshiitake #swshiitake #neutralpaintcolor #bedroompaint #cottagestyle #shiitakepaintcolor
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On the blog now w/ links to decor sources! 👩‍🍼

We’ve made so many special memories in this nursery with Emmet and I can’t wait to reimagine the space for our sweet baby girl! The entire design plan w/ links to all of the decor sources are on the blog (link in my bio) & I’m so excited for everything to start coming to life in here 💕 #babygirl #nurserydecor #babyblog #nursery #nurserydesign
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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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