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How to Restore an Old Exterior Wood Door

Ever wondered how to take an old wood exterior door and turn it into the natural wood exterior door of your dreams? Look no further! Today we’re sharing our tutorial for how to restore an old exterior wood door.

DIY, Furniture Makeovers, Home

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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DIY IKEA Hemnes Coffee Table and Media Console Hack

We haven’t done an IKEA hack in a while, and definitely didn’t intend to do another one any time soon, but thanks to a inspecting every inch of our house for weeks on end now, no piece of furniture in our home right is safe from my paint brush! So today we’re sharing a super easy IKEA coffee table and media console hack with a DIY furniture makeover tutorial that can be applied to upgrading any old, beat up piece of furniture around your house.

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DIY Home Decor: Easy DIY Nightstand

Oops, we did it again! And by again I mean we gave our affordable wood IKEA nightstands another easy, fun DIY makeover for our cottage-cozy master bedroom! Not only are we sharing the before and after and the story behind this makeover, I’m also sharing an easy, step-by-step tutorial for painting wood furniture and achieving the perfect finish without the fuss! If you’ve ever wanted to try your hand at painting furniture, but have been too afraid of failure to try, this one’s for you. We’re makin’ it easy breezy!

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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!

KILZ chalk paint dresser makeover by Love and Specs

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A Perfectly Pink DIY KILZ Chalk Paint Dresser Makeover

We could NOT be more excited to show you this pretty in pink DIY dresser makeover we tackled using KILZ® paint and primer because not only is the finished result one of our favorite furniture makeovers of all time, but we’re giving you all of the details on how you can enter to win a $1000 prepaid Visa giftcard in the KILZ® Street to Sweet Sweepstakes!

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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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DIY Upholstered Headboard Makeover

We gave our vintage upholstered wood headboard another easy DIY makeover with some beautiful new fabric and brought out some of its warm wood accents as part of our cozy, neutral master bedroom makeover. Just another before and after to love!

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An Easy DIY Wood Dresser Makeover

Another day, another easy DIY furniture makeover here on Love + Specs and this time we’ve even shocked ourselves with how simple and cool this DIY project was. We refinished the top of our favorite wood bedroom dresser & gave it new life… again!

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Easy DIY Wood Dining Chair Makeover

Get ready for another easy, cheap DIY furniture makeover you’ll love! See how we gave these gorgeous antique wood and cane farmhouse dining chairs a DIY painted white makeover to pair perfectly with our beloved breakfast table. It’s so simple your cat could do it! 

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DIY Painted White Cane Chair Makeover

We’ve been loving cane chairs as of late, specifically cane chairs with white frames and natural cane backs, so we took matters into our own hands and gave an old OfferUp desk chair find a DIY paint makeover with a farmhouse feel, and it became one of our favorite furniture flips we’ve ever done!  

Outdoor Teak Furniture Restoration Tutorial, tips featured by top US home DIY blogger, Love and Specs

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Outdoor Teak Furniture Restoration Tutorial

Outdoor living season is here, and what better way to celebrate than to restore your beat up outdoor teak patio furniture to its former glory? We’re teaching you all about teak wood furniture restoration and the best way to make your teak patio furniture shine so you can take the party outside!

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Instagram post 17847720710728989 Oh, hey, wow! Who remembers feed posts?! 🙋‍♀️🤔🧐 Just thought it would be fun to give the lazy/crazy office cattle dog a permanent spot on the grid & take one more opportunity to send up a big praise be that this space doesn’t look like it did in the 3rd pic anymore because… storage! If I had to live under a mountain of office stuff for another day may have lost my mind. To see more of our office storage install/IKEA cabinet hack, just head to that link in my bio.
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Instagram post 17950725814721672 My little love bug 🥰 I have a long-standing love affair with all things Valentine’s Day & am basically in full bliss during the time between New Year’s day & V-Day when everything’s covered in heart prints & all the pink, purple & red color combos galore, so Emmet didn’t even stand a chance at avoiding V-Day jammies. Not even a little bit sorry, Em! Living for these heart jammies + that little baby belly! I haven’t taken the deep dive into V-Day decor & style that I usually do because diaper duty is keeping me pretty busy, but I DID round up all of my favorite Valentine’s Day pajamas/outfits for babies over on the blog because SWOON! They’re just too cute. Head to the link in my bio if you, too are into making your baby a heart-covered snuggle bug 😍
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Instagram post 17909912687201481 Still my favorite holiday house in Arcadia! Though I do seem to have a lot of “favorites” this time of year. 😆 There’s just so much holiday cuteness to be seen! But I think maybe this adorable family sold this house this past year & moved back East, and if so I’ll really miss seeing their decs. They were so beautiful! The neighborhood is starting to come alive with holiday decs this weekend & it’s definitely making me want to do another Arcadia Holiday Home Tour on the blog, especially since we’re not doing many decs of our own this year because that cute little maniac Elvis would delight in destroying a fun Christmas dec… especially a tree. Though admittedly, my track record of being able to actually get blog posts up since Emmet’s arrival isn’t great. Not enough hands, ya know?! 🎄
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Instagram post 17909881217036722 #ad Major parent hot tip! Check out @walmart and stock up on essential items, like @pampersus Swaddlers™ Diapers & Pampers® Baby Wipes™! I don’t think I could truly wrap my head around what an important part of our lives great diapers and wipes would become until Emmet got here. Now not only have we become devotees of Pampers® Swaddlers™ & Pampers® Baby Wipes™ after our labor & delivery nurses recommended them in the hospital (which is the kind of advice that’s worth its weight in gold when you’re new to this whole parenting gig), but we can stock up because diapers & wipes are by far our most used & purchased items right now. #babylife am I right?! 

It’s so easy to order online & have items delivered straight to your door - convenience unmatched. Since baby E arrived, delivery has been a total lifesaver for us because we’re about as stretched for time as it gets & anything that makes stocking up at Walmart on the stuff we need more streamlined is a huge win and leaves me more time for everything I can do instead! Check out my stories for more!
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Instagram post 17876857586544091 Our guest/kiddo bathroom is FINALLY done! And oh man does it make me happy. I’m not sure Emmet fully appreciates what a huge upgrade his bathroom got, but he’ll get there. All of the before & after pics, design details & decor sources are included in the blog post at the link in my bio & in my Stories. That @adexusatiles from @craftsmancourtceramics is obviously my favorite part of this remodel & its even better than I pictured in my head. Win! 🛀
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Instagram post 17918923891937199 Little man when he was at his littlest. 🧸Thanks for fitting our little pookins in @taq.photography.llc for the dreamiest newborn session when he was brand new. Your baby whispering abilities know no bounds! Emmet in a bear suit is the thing I never knew I needed in my life & now this is living rent free in my heart forever. 💗

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