• Home
  • Arcadia Neighborhood Home Tours
  • Entertaining
  • Home Decor
  • Michigan Cottage Tours
  • Tour Our Cottage Style Home
  • DIY
  • DIY Favorites
  • DIY Home Decor
  • Furniture Makeovers
  • Room Makeovers
  • Style
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Spring
  • Summer
  • Baby Clothes
  • Men’s Favorites
  • Lifestyle
  • Beauty + Grooming
  • Book Reviews
  • Cute Backgrounds & Wallpapers
  • Food
  • Holiday Favorites
  • Travel
  • About Us
  • Contact Us
  • Shop our Favorites
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Pinterest
  • Twitter

Love and Specs

  • Blog
  • Home
    • Home Decor
    • Entertaining
    • Tour Our Cottage Style Home
    • Arcadia Neighborhood Home Tours
    • Michigan Cottage Tours
  • DIY
    • DIY Home Decor
    • Furniture Makeovers
    • Room Makeovers
    • DIY Favorites
  • Style
    • Fall
    • Winter
    • Spring
    • Summer
    • Baby Clothes
    • Men’s Favorites
  • Lifestyle
    • Book Reviews
    • Cute Backgrounds & Wallpapers
    • Travel
    • Food
    • Beauty + Grooming
    • Holiday Favorites
  • About Us
  • Contact Us
  • Shop our Favorites
Guest and Kids Bathroom Remodel Ideas featured by top Phoenix home blogger, Love and Specs

DIY, Home, Home Decor, Room Makeovers, Tour Our Cottage Style Home

Guest and Kids Bathroom Remodel Ideas

Our guest and kid bathroom remodel is finally finished and we couldn’t be more excited to show you around! Come see all of the before and afters, plus decor sources, design ideas and more!

Home, Room Makeovers, Tour Our Cottage Style Home

Our Kitchen Pantry Remodel & Organization Ideas

Come see our finished kitchen pantry remodel and read about all of our kitchen and pantry organization ideas and solutions for making this tiny space as efficient as possible!

DIY, Furniture Makeovers, Home, Tour Our Cottage Style Home

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.

Outdoor Living Space by popular Phoenix life and style blog, Love and Specs: image of a man using Spectracide Bug Stop Home Barrier.

DIY, Home, Room Makeovers, Tour Our Cottage Style Home

Our Easy, Step-by-Step Spring Outdoor Living Space Refresh With Spectracide & Lowe’s

Spring is here and today we’re celebrating and sharing all the sunshine vibes via the arrival of our annual Easy Spring Outdoor Makeover with a look at our spring front porch and backyard decor. With a little help from Lowe’s and the do it yourself pest control that’s playing a huge part in getting our outdoor living spaces 100% hangout ready, Spectracide® Bug Stop® Flip & Go!

Entertaining, Home, Home Decor, Spring, Style, Tour Our Cottage Style Home

Sweet Spring & Easter Table Decor Ideas We Love: One Table Two Ways

In celebration of spring and Easter I thought it would be fun to finally bring back a little backyard tables decor inspiration after a year of putting all thoughts of entertaining on hold. With Easter coming up this weekend, I thought this was the perfect time to share a really fun spring tablescape, two ways to give you guys tons of table decor ideas to work with or put your own spin on this week!

Home, Tour Our Cottage Style Home

All About Our Home’s Resilient Flooring & Why We Chose & Love Our Luxury Vinyl Plank Floors 2 Years Later

After living with our flooring for a couple of years, we’re finally ready to share all about our home’s resilient flooring and why we chose and love our luxury vinyl plank floors. Included are all of the details you need to know about our flooring’s beauty, affordability, durability, indoor air quality and sustainability!

DIY, Home, Home Decor, Room Makeovers, Tour Our Cottage Style Home

Our Front Porch Makeover & Front Porch Decorating Ideas

Come see our fun front porch makeover and all of our cottage style front porch decorating ideas to inspire max relaxation in your outdoor living space this spring and summer!

Home, Home Decor, Tour Our Cottage Style Home

Our New Exterior Wood French Doors for Our Home Office

We’re still hard at it on our backyard home office renovation, but the exterior is finally finished! So today we’re sharing all about our pretty new exterior wood French doors on our office and ordering custom wood doors online from US Door n More!

Home, Tour Our Cottage Style Home

Our Exterior Paint Makeover with Sherwin Williams Alabaster & The Best White Exterior Paint Colors

Today we’re sharing our home’s exterior paint makeover in one of our very favorite white paint colors for exteriors, Sherwin Williams Alabaster and taking you through the best white paint colors for exteriors, with descriptions and examples of each!

DIY, Home, Room Makeovers, Tour Our Cottage Style Home

DIY Laundry Room Makeover With Design Ideas, Decor & Painted Cabinets

We’re sharing our little laundry room makeover with before and after photos, all of our laundry room ideas and fixes, the decor we chose including our fun new light fixture, our DIY painted laundry room cabinets and more!

Home, Home Decor, Tour Our Cottage Style Home

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!

DIY, Furniture Makeovers, Home, Room Makeovers, Tour Our Cottage Style Home

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.

Next Page »

meet maryal and chris

  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Pinterest
  • Twitter

sign up for our newsletter

Popular Posts

Oct
01
Guest and Kids Bathroom Remodel Ideas featured by top Phoenix home blogger, Love and Specs
DIY, Home, Home Decor, Room Makeovers, Tour Our Cottage Style Home
Guest and Kids Bathroom Remodel Ideas
Feb
23
Home, Home Decor
Our Cottage Style Baby Boy Nursery Design Inspiration & Decor Plan
Feb
17
Home, Home Decor, Tour Our Cottage Style Home
Our New Exterior Wood French Doors for Our Home Office
Nov
05
DIY, Home, Room Makeovers, Tour Our Cottage Style Home
DIY Laundry Room Makeover With Design Ideas, Decor & Painted Cabinets
  • Home
  • DIY
  • Style
  • Lifestyle
  • Shop our Favorites
Maryal Miller Carter

loveandspecs

Link to display lightbox
Instagram post 17969245768697814 You’re still one cool cat, lake house! 🌊🌲🎣 #homedecor #homedesign #lakelife #cottagestyle
Link to display lightbox
Instagram post 17952070390968854 ONE YEAR! A little late, but I loved looking back through all of the pictures & vids of our sweet, funny, wild, crazy Em as he’s grown over the last year. And I can’t believe that we’ve been parents for a year @olcartier - we did it! 🥰 #babyboy #babyhood #cutebaby
Link to display lightbox
Instagram post 17948954479965878 Happy first official Father’s Day to the guy that makes our little fam’s world go ‘round! We love more than you could ever know @olcartier & can’t believe we got so lucky! 🥳 #fathersday #dads #dadlife
Link to display lightbox
Instagram post 17991906103485976 Sunrise turning the morning fog pink 💗 #reels #sunrise #summer #lakelife #puremichigan #walloonlake
Link to display lightbox
Instagram post 17938145699151184 Morning zen at the lake as the fog rolls off ☀️ #zen #reels #summervibes #morningvibes
Link to display lightbox
Instagram post 17907789689551804 Anyone else’s baby always doing that adorable look-back smile? 😂 PS all of Emmet’s super soft outfits are @kickeepants & they’re offering a special $15 off your order just for Love & Specs friends with code LOVEANDKICKEE thru 6/3! Link to shop is in my bio!

Copyright © 2022 · Love and Specs · Site by Ready to Blog Designs

Copyright © 2022 · Love and Specs on Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in