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How to Hang Peel & Stick Wallpaper
Wondering how to hang peel and stick wallpaper? Here is a step by step guide to getting the perfect results - so special tools or skills needed! When I designed our nursery, a bold wallpaper was an important part of my vision. Sean was understandably skeptical. He has been on the wallpaper-removal side of the...
How to restuff sofa cushions & give new life to a saggy couch!
Has your couch seen better days, but no budget to replace it? No problem! Here is how to restuff sofa cushions - for cheap - to easily and quickly give your couch new life! Since being pregnant, I have really increased the amount of time that I spend laying on my couch. We have had...
A Stylish Ceiling Fan for the Nursery
Ceiling fans get a bad wrap, y'all. And I get it, I totally do. 90's (and before) fans are not that cute. But, let's get real. if you live anywhere warm (hello, South Carolina) fans can make a huge difference. I honestly have a hard time sleeping without one. I don't think we will ever...
My Pregnancy Must Haves for Each Trimester
It's so easy to spend a ton of money when you are pregnant - both on conveniences for the pregnancy as well as things for the baby! Since most people in the United States have to take unpaid parental leave after their baby is born, pregnancy is not the best time to spend tons of...
Ways to reduce allergens in your home
This post is sponsored by FiltersFast.com, an automated home delivery service for all your filter needs in your home. All opinions in this post are those of Charleston Crafted and we are actual users of the service. Thank you for supporting the brands that make Charleston Crafted possible! Summer is still in full swing and...
Summer Garden Recap
We love having a garden in our backyard. It is so fun to grow our own produce and eat from our own yard! This spring and summer we planted two gardens - our raised garden bed and our salad cucumber bed. You can read how I planned the garden here, but I really relied heavily...
DIY Coffered Ceiling
The DIY coffered ceiling we just put up in our new nursery seriously makes this look like the nicest room in the house. We did another DIY beadboard ceiling in our stairwell and hallway last year, but this one did even better, thanks to experience and better products from Woodgrain. Click here to pin this...
Cozy Pillow + Blanket Combinations for Fall
I don't redecorate my home for every holiday or season, but something as simple as switching out your pillows or pillow covers and blankets for the season can bring a new layer of coziness and make your home feel more fall. Since the weather doesn't cool down for a while here, adding layered texture in...
How to make a Backyard Ring Toss Game
This simple DIY Olympic ring toss game is a fun and easy project to make to be in the spirit of the games! Morgan's parents threw us a baby shower a few weeks back and asked me to make a game to play. The theme was "Olympics" so I thought of the Olympic rings and...
Recycling Mistakes You Are Probably Making
Like many of you I am sure, Sean and I really try to recycle and take small measures to minimize our environmental impact. And afterwards, we pat ourselves on the back and think about how smart and thoughtful we are. Recently, we have read several articles and listened to podcasts that have seriously opened our...
Bi-fold Closet Door Makeover
We did a simple and fast bi-fold closet door makeover that we think you'll love and would quickly spice up your doors if you wanted to give it a try! Bi-fold closet doors are typically what most people would consider "very ugly." We did a simple and fast bi-fold closet door makeover that we think...
DIY Fall Wreaths
Changing out your wreath is one of the easiest ways to signal the change of seasons around your home. It is really easy to make a DIY fall wreath using just a wreath form and other seasonal items. You can customize them to match your home and sense of style. I love making simple wreaths...
Things to Sew for a Baby Nursery
After recovering from my sickness in the first half of pregnancy and finally feeling like myself again, I decided to bust out my sewing machine and try some sewing project for the baby + nursery. I will preface this by saying that I am a very beginner level sewer and try to focus on straight...
11 best live edge wood project ideas
Want to add a rustic touch to your home decor? How about decorating with live edge wood! Here are a ton of live edge wood project ideas! Live edge wood has been trending in a major way lately - and we totally understand why! Live edge wood is the term used to describe wood that...
Easiest Way to Install DIY Wainscoting
Adding DIY wainscoting to any room is an easy way to add elegance to a space. We've got the steps for the easiest way to install DIY wainscoting here! Thank you to Woodgrain for sponsoring this post. All opinions are our own. Looking for the easiest way to install DIY wainscoting? Adding wainscoting to a...
My Experience Having a Dermoid Ovarian Cyst Removed During Pregnancy
I am breaking away from our normal DIY and home related content to share a personal story today. I am sharing the story of having a dermoid ovarian cyst removed during pregnancy to try to help others who might be facing a similar situation. Whether you have an ovarian cyst, need a appendectomy during...
Quick and Easy Frames
Quick and easy frames are a staple in the DIY world because custom framing is SO expensive and takes forever. If you've ever tried to make a frame, you know it can be done exactly to your specifics. At the recent Haven Conference, I went to the hands-on class hosted by Dremel and Gorilla Glue...
4 DIY Benches
We've built 4 DIY benches in our home which can be replicated or give you inspiration. These 4 DIY benches are visually appealing and functional! No matter what your style is, you have to have places for people to sit. I just realized that we've built 4 DIY benches in the time that we've been...
Why you Need Carbon Monoxide Detectors for Your Home
Thank you First Alert for sponsoring this post. Don’t let the beep steal your sleep. We are working hard to get home improvement projects big and small completed before our baby arrives in October. While the nursery is an exciting project, I am also really excited to make our home safer as well as more...
Modern Crib Inspiration
One of the biggest pieces of furniture in our new nursery is obviously going to be the crib. Even though apparently babies don't sleep in their rooms for the first six months (who knew!), we want to have it all good and ready before he is born so we don't have to worry about it...
How to DIY a Maternity Photoshoot
DIY maternity photoshoots are so bad after all! I wanted to get maternity photos taken on our recent babymoon to Bermuda, but I didn't want to pay $600+ for a session. I understand that photographers are artists and business people and don't want to take away from their value - it just wasn't in the...
Litter Box Solutions
Going back to our days before we had our cat, Bear, we had Morgan's parent's cat, Cesar, for awhile. When we lived separately, Morgan just used a regular litter box for Cesar with no issues. Then I brought CiCi into the fold and found out she enjoys the delicacy of cat poop. Since then, we've...
Our Bermuda Babymoon - the perfect Babymoon spot!
Considering a babymoon in Bermuda? It is a beautiful island just off the east coast of the USA and is Zika-free! Here's what to expect on your fabulous vacation! We wanted to take one last vacation before our baby is born in October, and my OB/GYN recommended late July (when I was 27 weeks pregnant)...
Shop Our House: Dining Room
Our dining room sat empty for the first six months that we lived in our house. Sure, I could have gotten a temporary table and chairs, but we have a kitchen table, and wanted some time to think about how to set this space up. It's weird in that you have to walk through it...
Tropical Nursery Mood Board
I am so excited to share the design for our nursery with you today. We are going to be turning the room that was formerly known as the office, mostly serving as a junk room, into a baby's room. I am going for a tropical jungle feel with lots of light and bright accents as...
Our Outdoor Storage Solutions
Here's some great outdoor storage solutions that could be great for your needs in your yard! No matter how decked out you make all the storage inside your home or garage, there are some things that just have to be stored outside. For us, that's our yard/garden tools, firewood and our canoe. We've used a...
Haven Conference 2018 Recap
Another year, another wonderful Haven Conference. We were extremely fortunate and happy to have Haven Conference 2018 take place right here in beautiful Charleston, SC. This was our second year attending Haven, which is a conference for DIY and home decor bloggers. We had a great three days of meeting up with blogger friends, networking...
Free Baby Boxes Review
Today I want to talk about a baby-related freebie: Baby Boxes! Several brands offer free boxes of sample-sized baby items for new moms to try out. It's a great way to sample new brands when you have no idea what you want or need. There are tons of baby boxes available, but I have found...
Leather Anniversary Frame
Our third wedding anniversary was a couple of months ago now, but I couldn't share my gift to Morgan with you because we hadn't yet announced that she was pregnant! The third anniversary is traditionally the leather anniversary, which is a material I'm not used to working with, so I tried to make something thoughtful...
Our Three Favorite Pet Projects
We love our pets so dearly and love to pamper them and treat them like princesses. They are our world, so we try to bring them into our DIY world whenever we can. I've been planning a new dog food station and it got me thinking about my favorite projects that we've done for the...
The Easiest Live Edge River Table with Epoxy
Making a river table doesn't have to be complicated or use fine woodworking skills. Here's the easiest way to make a live edge river table with five minute epoxy! Sometimes a trend is harder to spot than others, but epoxy resin poured river tables are all the rage right now. We've never made one because...
Initial Baby Thoughts
In case you missed the breaking news of 2018, we told you last week that we're expecting our first child in October! It's really quite crazy and we have no idea how we're going to do it, but we know we'll get by. We wanted to share with you guys a little bit more about...
Desk Cubby Hole Wooden Trays
Here's how to build some wooden trays that slide perfectly into cubbies for a desk! Last year we built a a beautiful plywood and concrete desk where we keep our computer and do most of our blogging work. The desk had three cubby holes and, after a year of use, we had a constant problem...
Four Inspirational Bathrooms
Raise your hand if you're renovating a room right now! *Insert hand emoji for us too* We're knocking out our soon-to-be nursery and it's got us thinking about all the other rooms we've renovated over the years. We've done five bathrooms between the condo and the house and wanted to throwback to four inspirational bathrooms...
DIY Live Edge Wood Shelves - the Easiest Tutorial!
Coming at you today with some live edge wood shelves that have really changed the look of our bar space. Natural live edge wood works in pretty much any decor style and we love using all types of wood in our home. Live edge wood shelves are easy to make and can be done in...
All the National Parks We've Visited
One of our unofficial life goals is to visit every national park in the United States. That doesn't just mean the continental United States (we're coming for you American Samoa!), but all of them. A lot of them probably won't happen for several decades until we can afford to take several weeks at a time...
We Crafted a Baby!
Today's a pretty big day here in the Charleston Crafted household. We want to announce that we're going to have a baby!!! Woohoo! Insert terrified parent face emoji here... Baby BOY is due in October and we are terrified yet excited all at the same time. We have NO idea what goes into being a...
Round Coffee Table Inspiration
Don't get me wrong, I love our DIY driftwood coffee table. But after 5 years and a move, it has seen better days. Honestly, a few of the branches have snapped off (ahem CiCi) and its just generally not as stable or crisp as I'd like. Plus, Sean is on a big woodworking kick and...
Shop my Etsy Inventory!
Looking for some new vintage decor for your home? You are in luck! I am liquidating all of my remaining Etsy decor! It includes a lot of vintage brass as well as other hand-picked home decor items. You can check out all of the inventory here and I will share some images below. If you...
Meet Up with us at Haven Conference 2018!
The annual Haven Conference is coming up in a couple of weeks! Last year was our first year attending and we had an AMAZING time. So much of what you have seen in our blog in the last year has been a direct or indirect result of something that came from Haven. Haven 2018 is...
How to organize a Craft Supply Closet
Want to set up a craft supply closet? Here are the best tips and tricks on how to organize your craft supplies in a closet! One big project that I wanted to get accomplished in the month of June was to get my craft supplies under control. When we moved into the house, we purchased...