Love & Renovations

DIY Floating Shelves

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! Do you ever play White Elephant? I've also heard it referred to as Dirty Santa or Yankee Swap (although, I like White Elephant a lot better!), but whatever you call it, it's a hilarious and never full 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

Friday Favorites

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We finally went to a pumpkin patch last weekend - it was too cold and too wet and none of their normal games or fun things were available. But, Jackson still spent a good 20 minutes running in circles around the patch exclaiming over how "cute" all of the pumpkins were. He had the best time, and it was a good reminder to me that things can still be wonderful even if they don't live up to my Instagram-worthy expectations. Our fall celebrations have been a bit quieter and pared down from what View Post

DIY Shiplap Fireplace

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Y'all! It's finally time to reveal the big shiplap fireplace makeover that I've been teasing on Instagram for what feels like forever. It's done and I couldn't be happier with it. If you have no idea what I'm talking about, you can click here to watch my Instagram highlight with all of the details and sneak peeks as I was working on the fireplace. Or, of course, you can just keep reading because I'm gonna share aaaaaaall the juicy details on how I got it done - including my secret weapon for View Post

Grant’s Birth Story

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On the morning of Sunday, August 26th, I woke up feeling off. I couldn't quite put my finger on it, but something was different - I couldn't drag myself out of bed until about 9:30, and when I did manage to get up I still felt pretty awful. Corey and I knew that this would be the last Sunday we had as just a family of 3 (if Grant wasn't born by the next Friday, I would be induced), so we decided that we'd take it easy that day. No church, no responsibilities, just a quiet family day. We View Post