Love & Renovations

Our Mini Garage Door Makeover

With the holidays coming up, Corey and I have been working on a few quick maintenance items around the house to make sure our home is clean, looking nice, and ready to host our friends and family for Christmas. This weekend, we took care of some garage door maintenance that we've been putting off and while we were at it, we gave our garage door a quick makeover to make it a little more appealing from the street. This post is sponsored by 3-IN-ONE. I wanted to share our process for taking View Post

2018 Christmas Gift Guide: Gifts for Him

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Welcome back to my 2018 gift guide series! Last time we chatted about White Elephant gift ideas, and today I'm here to share with you gift ideas for men. I don't know about you, but I consider the dudes in my life to be the very hardest category of people to shop for, so I'm constantly looking for creative and fun ideas for what to gift them. Of course, before we dive in I'll make a quick note: obviously these gifts aren't all "just" for men. Plenty of women would like these gifts too, and View Post

1 Year House Tour

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Y'all, I'm so excited to share this post with you today! This may be one of those things that's more exciting for me than it is for you (hey, at least I can admit it), but I've been thinking about and planning this post for quite some time now. One year ago this month, Corey and I sold our first home and moved into this (much smaller) home in order to pay off all of our debt. You can read more about that story right here! I know it's cheesy to say, but it really is a bit hard to believe View Post

DIY Floating Shelves

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Earlier this week I showed you the new DIY floating shelves that we installed in our living room. I've been so excited to get these installed and share them with you, and I'm so glad the project is finally done. I had lots of questions on my Instagram stories as I was working about how we put these together, so I wanted to share a quick tutorial to show you exactly how it's done. A project like this might look intimidating, but I promise it's actually surprisingly easy to build DIY floating View Post

Affordable, Modern Leather Ottomans

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Anytime I share a photo of our living room, the number one question I get asked is, "where is that gorgeous leather ottoman from?!" It doesn't matter what the photo is actually supposed to be about, our gorgeous tufted leather ottoman steals the show every dang time. I mean, I get it. It's kind of amazing. This post contains affiliate links. Click here to read my full disclosure policy. The only problem? This baby is pretty much always sold out everywhere. I felt bad about constantly View Post

Our New Open Shelving (Plus, 6 Shelf Decorating Ideas)

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This post is sponsored by Tuesday Morning. One thing I've always struggled with is styling decor in my house. I've never had a ton of confidence when it comes to my shelf styling game, and sometimes it just feels hard. But over the years I've done a lot of practicing, and today (in addition to revealing the gorgeous floating shelves we just built for our living room), I'm sharing a few shelf decorating ideas and styling tips that I've picked up in all of my trial and error. I've known we View Post

Our Advent Calendar + 10 Great DIY Advent Calendar Ideas

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I know, I know. Halloween just happened last week and I've already jumped to Christmas?! I get it. But, hear me out: these things take planning and time. Which you don't have if I wait until after Thanksgiving to share ideas for your advent calendar. So, I know the urge is strong to shake your first Scrooge-style at anyone who talks about Christmas before Thanksgiving is over, but just remember that we share these things to give you plenty of time to gather inspiration and actually implement View Post

Christmas Gift Guide: White Elephant Gift Ideas

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Welcome to the first post in my 2018 gift guide series! I always love scouring the web for the best gifts to give to my family and friends, and I like to put all that research to good use and share what I find with you. Today, I'm sharing a whopping 50 White Elephant gift exchange ideas! This post contains affiliate links. Click here to read my full disclosure policy. Do you ever play White Elephant? I've also heard it referred to as Dirty Santa or Yankee Swap (although, I like White View Post

How to Declutter Your Home In 30 Days

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Over the last couple of years, I have written an absurd amount of posts on organizing, the Konmari method, and all sorts of other tips on how to declutter your home. I'm pretty passionate about keeping a clean and organized home (especially after we sold our old home to get out of debt and moved into a house that's less than 1,200 square feet!) and I love to share the tips and tricks that I learn along the way to help you learn how to declutter and organize your home too. I'm sure many of you View Post

How to Build a DIY Fireplace Mantel

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I know a lot of you have been waiting for the tutorial of how I built our DIY fireplace mantel - I had lots of questions about it when I shared a peek of it on my Instagram story, and I promised y'all it was super simple. Well, the tutorial is here! By the way, if you want to see the entire process of our DIY shiplap fireplace renovation, you can click here to see the Instagram story highlight with all of the details! Last time we took on a fireplace renovation, we had some large chunks View Post