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Northern Michigan Cottage Tour: Michigan Cottages featured by top US travel and cottage lifestyle blogger, Love and Specs |Northern Michigan Cottage Homes Tour by popular Phoenix life and style blog, Love and Specs: image of a Michigan cottage.

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Northern Michigan Cottage Tour: Walloon Lake & Charlevoix, Michigan Cottages

Our 3rd and final stop on the Northern Michigan Cottage Tour takes us to stunning Walloon Lake, Michigan and its neighbor, Charlevoix, Michigan, and showcases some of my favorite cottage homes and cottage design details yet. Come dive into the clever, charming world of lakeside cottage design with us!

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Northern Michigan Cottage Tour: Harbor Springs, Michigan Cottages

Next stop on our Northern Michigan Cottage Tour? The charming, historic town of Harbor Springs where these unique cottage homes tell the story of the town’s rich history as a lakeside vacation destination where family memories are made and cottage design delight takes center stage!

Lifestyle, Men’s Favorites, Spring, Style, Travel

Hotel Walloon: The Most Magical Small Town Travel Destination

Today we’re showing you around one of the most magical, luxury small town travel destinations in the world, the beautiful Hotel Walloon in Northern Michigan, which serves as perfect spot for a romantic weekend getaway or a week of family fun in winter, spring, summer and fall!

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Our 2nd Wedding Anniversary & Our Best Wedding Ideas

We’re celebrating our 2nd wedding anniversary by reflecting on our incredible vintage-inspired country wedding day in Northern Michigan and spilling all about what our very favorite elements of our day were, why and where we got those wedding ideas!

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The Tuesday 10: Vol. 7

The 2018 Nordstrom Anniversary Sale info you need now, a relaxed, coastal-inspired home we’re crushing on, the total body exfoliating tool we’re hooked on, the amazing Rebecca Taylor and J.Crew sale sections, Dr. Phil’s fascinating story and more in today’s Tuesday 10!

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Cozy, Eclectic Cottage Style in Walloon Lake Michigan

Cozy cottages, coastal cottages, modern cottages and unique cottage homes of all kinds set against clear blue and turquoise water is one of the things that makes Walloon Lake, Michigan such an enchanting place to visit. Come fall in love with the eclectic cottage style of Walloon right along with us in today’s post!

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Fall Colors Weekend Getaway: Northern Michigan

In search of the very best weekend getaway this season to see the fall colors? We’re telling you all you need to know about what we think is the very best quaint, cozy little town in the country to see the best fall colors, and it’s right in our beloved Northern Michigan!

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Our New Look + The Bib Top Trend

Today’s post is all about our new look here on Love + Specs, my last few days on Walloon Lake in Northern Michigan and my love for the bib top trend.

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His & Hers 4th of July Style Inspiration

We always get so excited to celebrate the 4th of July with our family, so we’re offering some serious 4th of July style inspiration for both the men and women so you can bring your best outfit game this Independence Day!

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Our Wedding, Behind the Scenes

You may have recently seen our wedding featured on Style Me Pretty, so we though it would be fun to show you some of the photos of what went down on our wedding day behind the scenes. Here we’re featuring the photos that you didn’t see on SMP, with plenty of laughter and love to go around!

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Petoskey, Michigan

Read our detailed travel guide for the best restaurants in Petoskey Michigan, along with our favorite Petoskey wineries, hotels and activities.

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Up North: Walloon Lake, Michigan

As you’ve probably guessed by now from our gushing posts about our insanely awesome trip to Northern Michigan over the 4th of July, we’re pretty smitten with The Mitten and […]

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I can’t even believe I’m writing this. I just can’t believe it. We’re still so shocked & sad & just plain, all around devastated. It still kind of doesn’t feel real, but the hard truth is, it is real. And it sucks. Our beloved pup Elvis, the guy who has brought so much love & joy & mischief & laughter into our home & our family for the last 2 years crossed the rainbow bridge this week after a shock cancer diagnoses and an all too quick decline. We never in a million years thought that the pup we brought home 2 years ago, the dog we envisioned growing up with our kids, being a central part of our family dynamic and our memories for years and years to come, would leave us this soon. It’s not fair. He didn’t deserve this. He was always so healthy & so loved & the helplessness, sadness & anger we’ve felt over these last few months as Elvis declined & we got his diagnosis was just beyond brutal. I haven’t really been able to find the meaning in it right now, but what I do know is that we loved him with our whole hearts, and so did everyone else. And I still believe that although loving something, anything this much can be hard & heartbreaking at times, it’s worth it every single time. I’d do it all over again for 2 years with Elvie by my side & so would Chris. He was truly a 1 in a million companion. 🌈
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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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