Interested in all the options of the Ryobi 40v Expand-It System? The options are endless and we have a review of how it all works! Spring is here! And with spring comes yard work. Yard work can be a real drag sometimes, but that's only if you're using outdated, ill-performing equipment. We recently switched all...
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Using pebbles to fill outdoor dead space
A couple weeks ago, we shared with you guys how we built a new raised bed cucumber garden that was featured on Pretty Handy Girl's website. When we built that garden, it left this weird outdoor dead space in the corner of our fence because the fence was angled. We didn't know what we could...
Easter Tablescape with Carrot and Lettuce Centerpieces
Happy Spring y'all! I hope that all of your weather is starting to warm up and that spring is on the horizon. Today I am sharing an Easter tablescape. Since it is almost Easter, I decided to lean a little Easter with my spring tablescape, but also leaned a little garden whimsical. I know, whimsical...
DIY Hidden Litter Box Solution
Want to build a wooden container to hide your litter box? You'll love this DIY Hidden litter box solution! This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #LoveTheseCleanPaws #CollectiveBias No one likes unsightly, smelly cat litter boxes in their house. They are gross and embarrassing and...
What's going on Wednesday
Hey y'all and happy Wednesday. Weird post title, I know, but we usually share our free for all posts on Fridays, and this Friday I am sharing a spring themed table decor blog hop instead! So, I wanted to pop in and tell you what's been going on with us. We are about ⅓ of...
Our 7 Favorite Driftwood Projects
We live at the beach, y'all, so driftwood is free an abundant on our coastline. We love making driftwood projects to grace our home to give us coastal, but not beachy, decor. We've made a lot of driftwood projects over the years, going back to when all we had was a drill and a handsaw,...
DIY Wooden Lantern
Today we've got a DIY wooden lantern that we think you're going to love based on it's geometric shape and ease to build! This "x" patterned wooden lantern looks really cool and is perfect for battery-powered candles. You read that right- battery powered only. We don't want any of you crazy kids putting a fire...
Fabulous Console Table Ideas - from Amazon
We have been toying recently with the idea of adding a console table behind our sofa in the sunroom. It would cover up the back of the sofa (which is fine, just very plain) as well as give some storage and tabletop surface to the space. Our plan would be for Sean to build a...
Upcycled Countertop Side Table
If you've been following us for awhile, you know we love to upcycle materials whenever we can. Today we're sharing with you an upcycled countertop side table we made using an extra bit of slab from our kitchen counters! When they fabricated our counters, we asked them to bring all the scraps with them when...
The Four Best Ways to Frame a Mirror
Framing a mirror can be a great DIY project for any home. Whether you are creating an entirely new frame or you want to spruce up a frame that you already have, a new frame will bring life back to a mirror and change your space. We've done a few and can show you the...
Spring Floral Azalea Mantel
We had a beautiful spring weekend in Charleston and the gorgeous azaleas in bloom inspired me to update my mantel for spring. Azaleas bloom in Charleston in March and April and coming in a wide variety of colors. Our side yard is full of white azaleas that I included in this design. The bushes produce...
Shop Our Front Room
A lot of the rooms in our house are done. Not done forever, but definitely in a state of done-for-now. So, I thought that this would be a great time to share all of the sources for our rooms with you! So, we will be sharing a series of shop our rooms. Today, I am...
An Easy DIY Way to Change Your Filters
This post is sponsored by Filters Fast.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! Hey everybody! Today we are talking...
Are Solar Panels Worth It? One Year with Our Solar Panels on our Home
If you're considering having solar panels installed on your home, a big question you may have is whether they are worth it. Here's our opinion after having two homes with solar panels! Update- this review and experience is from our first home where WE chose to have the solar panels installed. Our second home already...
DIY Cardboard Cat Play Box
This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #NutrishforCats #NutrishPets #CollectiveBias We all know that cats ignore new toys in favor of the packaging that they come in. So, today I am sharing with you a DIY cat play pen made from a cardboard box! This...
How to Resell Vintage Decor
I love thrifting, but I don't want my house to look like a thrift store! Two years ago, I decided to start re-selling my thrift finds in order to still be able to shop and also make a little money off of this hobby. Last year, I actually made more of a profit off of...
DIY Raised Cucumber Garden with a Trellis
Check out how we built a DIY raised cumber garden trellis for our raised bed garden. This is a quick and simple DIY that doesn't require many tools or skills! It's springtime and I am so, so ready to get our vegetable garden in the ground. We are planting this weekend (!) but have been...
One Year with our Recycled Glass & Oyster Shell Countertops
It is hard to believe that it has been one year since we had our recycled glass & oyster shell countertops installed. To mark the anniversary, we wanted to write a post and check in with y'all about how they are doing and how we feel about them. All photos in this post were taken...
DIY Scalloped Pallet Wood Planter
Want to make a pallet wood planter? You'll love this simple scalloped DIY version! Planters come in all shapes and sizes and now I'm throwing a scallop shaped planter into the mix. The best part was I made it for free entirely out of a pallet that was leftover from our shipment of concrete for...
11 Unique Planters from Amazon
Y'all know that I have gone crazy with Spring fever! The weather is warming up and I am ready to surround myself with plants. Plants are beautiful and wonderful, but cool planters can make them even more interesting. So, I decided to round up a selection of really unique planters, all of which are available...
Our DIY Garden Paver Walkway
Hey y'all. We're sharing our new garden paver walkway with you today. You should know by now that we don't like to let things go to waste. When we tore our our old patio a few weeks ago and laid down a new one with the Quikrete WalkMaker, we didn't want to throw the old...
Shopping for our Patio at the Home Depot
We recently finished laying a Quikrete concrete patio and love the results. We are really excited to be furnishing our patio with home decor from the Home Depot as a part of their Home Depot Style Challenge! If you follow me on Instagram, then you might have seen some shots from our shopping spree on...
How to Plan a Vegetable Garden
We are starting to get some warm weather here in Charleston and I am getting really excited for our spring planting. I recently shared how I am planning our raised bed vegetable gardens this year on my Instagram stories and got a lot of questions about my process. So, I thought that it would be...
Our favorite outdoor projects from 2017 and garden plans for this year
The last 2 weekends have been gorgeous weather and we are getting ready to plan our outdoor projects for this spring and summer. We don't want to do anything too early in case we get a late freeze like last year, but we wanted to share with your our favorite outdoor projects from 2017 and...
How to add Polymeric Sand to Quikrete Walkmaker Pavers
Today we are back with the final step of our DIY patio - the jointing! After doing some research, we decided to add Quikrete Polymeric Jointing Sand in between our concrete pavers to give us the best long-term results for the patio. The benefit of the polymeric sand is that it is firm but has...
Our Amazon Shop
Today I wanted to pop in and chat with you about our newest venture - our Amazon shop! You might already know that we have an Etsy shop where I sell vintage home decor, but this is totally different. This Amazon shop features things that we have in our home and love and allows you...
How to Buy Wood
If you're like us, when you started being crafty and building things, you didn't exactly know where to start when it came to how to buy wood. The easiest thing was to go to Lowe's or Home Depot and pick up some stuff off the shelf but, again, if you're like me, it turns out...
Five Types of DIY Open Shelving
There's tons of way to do open shelving in all spaces in your home. Here's just a few ways to do it! Open. Open EVERYTHING! That's one of the biggest design trends in the last few years that is different from years past where everything had it's own confined space. Open shelving is one of...
How to make a QUIKRETE WalkMaker patio
Want to make a concrete patio yourself, on an affordable budget? Here's our step by step tutorial on how we made a Quikrete WalkMaker Patio! Y'all, we laid a gorgeous patio a few weeks ago and we are loving how it has turned out. If you're looking for how to make a QUIKRETE WalkMaker patio,...
The Best of Stone & Beam - Amazon's Modern Farmhouse Furniture & Decor Line
Y'all know that I am an Amazon fiend. So, you'll know that I was thrilled to find out that Amazon now has their own furniture and decor line. I have always been impressed by Amazon Basic products, so I am very excited to check out this line. Here are my favorites from Stone & Beam...
Wood House Plant Stand
Check out this really cool plant stand we built that looks like a house! It's a fun build and you can make one too! If you haven't heard, the Fixer Upper duo of Chip and Joanna Gaines released a line of home products called "Hearth & Hand" at Target. We love a lot of their...
Four cabinet extensions to improve your kitchen
There are lots of ways to improve your kitchen, but a big one is by adding functional storage. Here's four ways you can improve your kitchen with cabinet extensions! There are so many ways to make your kitchen look bigger, lighter, brighter and better. That could mean tearing down a wall, painting your cabinets, putting...
Removing our old patio
You read our backyard design plan last week and we are so excited for the end... before even starting! Well you have to start somewhere. The first stage of our plan is to replace our patio, so first we had to remove the old patio and make a space for it. Parts were easy... parts...
Rubbermaid Roughneck Storage Sheds - complete honest review!
Considering a Rubbermaid shed? We got the Roughneck Storage Shed - here's all the details and our review! Note: this post was not sponsored. We bought the shed full price (minus a coupon) from Lowe's. This is an honest review. We have a two-car garage and an attic. That should be plenty of storage, right?...
Our New Patio Design Plan
We have been teasing a big backyard makeover with you lately and so I thought that it would be fun to come in today and share our new patio design plan! This project will be our big makeover for the first half of the year and we expect it to take a few months to...
DIY Wooden Door Mat & Our New Therma-Tru Benchmark Door
This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of Therma-Tru Benchmark Exclusively available at Lowe’s. You might remember that before the holidays we shared that we were door shopping! Well, our new door, sent to us by Therma-Tru Benchmark came in and we installed it this weekend. We are so pleased with the new door...
Six Nautical Pillow + Blanket Combinations
Changing up your decor with the seasons can be expensive, time consuming, and frankly wasteful. That's why I celebrate summer all year round (sort of joking but not really :D) But, for those of you looking to mix things up, throw pillows and blankets are such a simple way to do that. Plus, if you...
Furniture Flip: Upholstered Stool to Herringbone Wooden Plant Stand
I am back today with another furniture flip for you! I started with this small stool. It was from Target in 2013. I love the metal geometric base but the upholstered cushion is pretty worn. Since Sean built me a new vanity stool, I decided to try to replace the top of this one and...
How to successfully sell on Facebook Marketplace
Ready to finally sell that item that's taking up space in your home? Here's some tips on selling it on Facebook Marketplace! Lately, we have been doing a little early spring cleaning by getting rid of some tools, furniture and other items that we no longer need or want. We have been using Facebook Marketplace...
Faux Inlay Wooden Tray
For Christmas this year, I made my mother-in-law a faux inlay wooden tray as a custom present. Using extra wood from the makeup box I made for my mom, I was able to make a beautiful serving tray that she can use for a variety of purposes. Faux Inlay Wooden Tray I was using a...
DIY Driftwood Sailboat Mantel & a linkup!
Hey y'all! Today I am here with a mantel makeover for you! I love changing my mantel up seasonally - but this isn't really a winter mantle. Winter and fall aren't really on my decor radar - I am a spring & summer coastal girl! So, here is my take on a winter mantel featuring...
How to make a wooden bar tray
Wondering how to make a wooden tray? Here is a simple tutorial featuring cute rope handles! Trays are great decor to add to any area of your home. They work to protect lower surfaces, corral decor together, and add detail and interest to any shelf or tabletop. Trays also make a great gift - I...