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Corner Shower Foot Rest by popular Phoenix life and style blog, Love and Specs: image of a white marble corner shower foot rest in a corner shower with white subway tile and black and white hexagon tiles.

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How to Install a Corner Shower Foot Rest for Shaving

Per your requests, our tutorial on how to easily install your own corner shower foot rest for max shaving convenience (especially in a small bathroom) is here and includes all of the tips and tricks to tackle this DIY project with confidence! Shower heaven awaits!

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How To: DIY Board & Batten Shutters

Shutters are like the frosting of exterior design, and today we’re showing you how to make easy DIY board and batten shutters for your home so you can make your exterior sparkle and shine! Come see our new shutters and the shutter color we love and the full tutorial for making your own shutters at home!

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DIY Gilded Wood Christmas Ornaments

We’re sharing another fun (and super easy!) holiday DIY project today that’s perfect for adding that gorgeous, cozy glow to your Christmas tree this year – DIY gilded wood Christmas ornaments! These adorable, rustic wood ornaments are a breeze to make so you can even get the kiddos involved in this one, and they fall right in line with that Scandinavian-inspired, natural holiday decor vibe we love. So what are you waiting for? Come make your house merry and bright with us this season!

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DIY Winter Citrus Garland: How To Make Faux Garland Look Real

Today’s easy holiday decor DIY project is one that I’ve been dying to take for a spin for a few years now, and I’m excited to say that the execution was even easier and the result even more fun than I’d imagined it would be! The DIY project du jour? How to make your own DIY winter citrus garland using cute little kumquats! This same fool-proof approach works on real or faux greenery and garland or wreaths, so there’s plenty of room to get festive and play!

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Easy DIY Wood Kitchen Cabinet Hardware Makeover

Today we’re talking all about our journey into wood kitchen cabinet hardware, including all of the trials and triumphs that happened along the way when swapping out our old black kitchen cabinet hardware for wood knobs and drawer pulls. This is such a fun, easy way to give your kitchen a cool, cottage-cozy DIY makeover, and we’re giving you all of the inside info, tips and tricks for how to get it done!

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How To Make Easy DIY Wood Floating Frames

We’re showing you how to easily make these super fun DIY floating wood gallery frames in just a few easy steps, on a budget! Bonus: this project can be completely customized to fit your own style and needs with minimal effort and max impact!

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DIY Laminated Paper Placemats

Who’s ready for the most fun, versatile DIY home decor project ever?! Today we’re giving you the rundown on how to make these super easy, practical and completely customizable DIY laminated paper placemats that are perfect for your next party, holidays, catching the kiddos’ meal chaos and so much more!

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How To: DIY “Vintage” Pennants

Vintage pennants have, for some inexplicable reason, become a new home decor obsession of mine, so I decided to create my own “vintage” DIY fabric pennants using some really fun, romantic fabric scraps I had lying around that fit right into our cozy-cottage-farmhouse style and don’t break the bank. Come see the step by step instructions to create your own!

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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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Winter & Holiday Season DIY Bucket List Board

Today we’re setting our intentions for a season well lived and well loved, and sharing our DIY Winter Bucket List Board tutorial, plus the sick season essentials we stock up on from Fry’s that make sure we get to enjoy every single item on our list to the fullest!

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An Easy Christmas Craft & DIY Scented Candle You’ll Love!

One of the easiest, most awesome Christmas crafts is here and it also happens to smell heavenly! These adorable little DIY scented candles or holiday “scent pots” as well call them serve as beautiful, simple holiday decor and will make your home smell so good this holiday season!

DIY Yarn Christmas Trees tutorial featured by top Phoenix interior design blog, Love and Specs.

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DIY Yarn Christmas Trees

Get ready for the most fun, easy, lovable holiday home decor DIY ever! We love that decorative yarn/wool/felt trees have gained in popularity in recent holiday seasons, so we’re showing you exactly how to create these holiday decor gems in a matter of minutes!

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Instagram post 17874356132304607 Another look at our backyard home office w/ our pretty new wood French doors! I don’t know how my life took this strange adulthood turn, but I am now obsessed with doors. Had you told my teenage self that I’d spend hours scrolling through the @usdoornmore site just daydreaming about all of the cool doors I could install around my house, I would have spit out my Slurpee & laughed in your face. Yet here I am, pregnant, freaking out about the magic of doors! 🤷‍♀️ I already loved our backyard office, but now it’s about 10x more cottage cozy with these doors & all that natural light streaming in! Working from home never felt so good 🥰 You can see the before & after pics & learn all about how to order custom doors online at the link in my bio!
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Instagram post 17906274784724051 The weather is starting to get pretty perfect here in Phoenix & it’s making me V excited to start exploring the amazing spring front walkway situation around Arcadia! I look forward to riding my bike around, snapping these pretty flower-lined spring paths pretty much all year & from what I’ve already seen around the neighborhood, this year’s spring Arcadia lovefest tour is gonna be GOOD! I think I’m basically just going to focus all my attention on the walkways this year. They’re just so incredible! Are you guys as excited for this year’s spring Arcadia tour as I am?! 🏡🌸🌼💐
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Instagram post 18195918829015109 Oh man am I excited to start sharing our finished exterior remodel of our cozy cottage-cute backyard home office! This space is & has always been a favorite part of our home & tackling the exterior remodel with the help of my parents over the last year has been so much fun & such an education. We’ll be sharing more of how we tackled replacing all of the exterior siding, etc. in the coming weeks but today is all about these beautiful new wood French doors that I’ve dreamed about putting here for years. Years! And they’re even prettier than I’d hoped. Hop over to the link in my bio to see the before & after pics of the front of the office & the doors & hear all about our experience ordering custom wood French doors online, how we easily sealed them to protect them from the elements & more! 🎉
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Instagram post 17897897764829822 You know I love Valentine’s Day so I’m just gonna allow myself to stretch the love fest out a little longer 🥰 💗Chris left this morning for a work trip for a couple of weeks & I swear pregnancy has made me even more sappy for this guy than I already was! 😭 I wish you guys could all know him & have a chance to laugh with him like I do because it’s just the absolute BEST! He’s just an amazing guy. Amazing friend, amazing partner, amazing uncle, amazing everything. I’d never gone through the pics on my phone and saved the photos of us in a folder so I could look back on our relationship over the years & reminisce a little, but I finally did it last night during my typical 3am to 4am pregnancy wake-up & now I’m just over here getting lost in reliving all of the fun we’ve had! 10 snaps doesn’t even come close to covering it. Swipe to the last pic to see our very first photo together that my sister snapped on our first double date to send to my parents so they could scope him out 🤣 Hope you’ve all been able to feel a little love in some way, shape or form this week & if you find yourself needing some more, just DM me & I’ll remind you how awesome you are & how glad I am to have you here! 💗💗💗
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Instagram post 17936172811445601 Man I just 💗 this holiday! I can’t help it! 🥰 Especially now that I get to have this incredible guy as my Valentine for the rest of my life (and my baby daddy). How did I get so darned lucky? So happy Valentine’s Day, my love. You’re my very favorite thing about life & make me the happiest girl alive, day in & day out. May you always find an ocean to ride a wave on! 🏄🏻‍♂️
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Instagram post 17884006397006795 It’s my birthday! And because I love birthdays & basically any reason to celebrate anything, I thought it would be fun to finally share a little secret me & Chris have been cookin’ up for my 36th year 👶🏼🤰We’re closing in on the halfway mark &  it feels pretty awesome. It’s also getting harder & harder to hide this big ol’ belly from you guys 🤣 Everything has been a lot slower around here (well basically me... I’ve been a lot slower) for the last several months, but I have to admit that I’ve kind of loved the slow down. We’ve been in a little bubble of happy. Guess quarantine really got us good 😜 Baby boy arrives this summer & I’ll just be over here fussing over his cozy cottage nursery (which has been SO much fun to design w/ my mom’s help) & Chris will be over there stockpiling all of the kids’ golf & fishing gear he can find. It’s gonna be a heck of a year! 🎉

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