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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!

New Floor and Decor Tolleson review featured by top US lifestyle blog, Love and Specs.

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Office Flooring Project with the New Floor and Decor Tolleson

We’re SO excited to officially kick off our office makeover project today and specifically, the hunt for the perfect flooring to set the tone with the help of one of our tried and trusted home improvement secret weapons that we think has completely changed the flooring and hard surface game for the better – Floor & Decor! Come see photos of our super cool detached backyard office before we got to work on giving it a facelift and all of the awesome flooring options we found when we toured the gorgeous new Floor & Decor Tolleson store!

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Charming Country Cottage Christmas Decorating Ideas

A country cottage Christmas! ‘Tis the season, friends and if you love country cottage decor year round and are dying to get decorating, you’ll love all of the fun, country cottage holiday decor we’ve included in today’s post. We’ve been loving all of the quirky, cozy, charming country cottage holiday decor out there this year, so we rounded up tons of our favorite pieces from around the web to help you kick off the most magical season in style!

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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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Our Favorite Simple Fall Cottage Decor

Fall is (almost) officially here and if you, like me, love to be really intentional when you’re curating the fall decor you’re bringing into your home and want it to sort of blend right in with the rest of your permanent home decor, I’ve rounded up my favorite simple, mellow, cottage-inspired fall home decor finds from around the web to spread max fall coziness without the clutter!

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Celebrating Wedding Season with the Best Wedding Registry Cookware

In celebration of wedding season and our 3 years of wedded bliss, today I’m marrying (pun totally intended) my love for all things wedding related and my never-ending mission to give you guys the inside info on the best of the best home decor and essentials we love that genuinely enhance our everyday lives by offering our expert insight into one of those wedding traditions that can be a little tricky to navigate, as guest and bride and groom – the registry!

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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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Our Favorite Casual, Cozy Cottage Style Rugs

We consider it our duty as cottage lifestyle lovers to embrace our best casual, barefoot selves at all times, so today we’re rounding up all of the soft, cozy, cottage-cool area rugs and runners we love from around the web that are perfect for your living room, bedroom, kitchen, dining room, layering or even for spicing up your stairs. Fun rugs for life!

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Spring Cottage Style Home Decor We Love

Spring always ushers in an abundance of fun, romantic, gorgeous cottage style home decor pieces to love, so we’re capitalizing today by rounding up all of the fresh, spring-ready, cottage-inspired home decor pieces from around the web that we’ve fallen in love with this season. Cottage style lovers unite!

DIY, DIY Favorites, Home, Home Decor

Spring Cleaning & Home Improvement Revelations We’re Loving!

Today we’re taking you through three epic new discoveries we’ve made that have been total game-changers in making it easier to either keep our home clean this spring, or maintain its fresh look and feel in general, sans signs of wear and tear, including the best robot vacuum of all time, the perfect dishwand system you definitely need in your dishwashing life and the most durable kitchen cabinet refinishing products that will blow your remodeling mind!

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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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How to Keep White Bedding Bright, White & Clean

We have a serious love affair with crisp, fluffy white bedding, but I’d be lying if I said that keeping white bedding as white as they day we bought it was always easy. So today, with the help of Persil® ProClean® laundry detergent at Walmart, we’re talking all about our tried and tested tips for keeping white bedding bright, white and clean even when life’s messy moments pop up!

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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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