On our quest to visit all of the National Parks in our lifetime, we are trying to target some relatively local parks that we can visit in a long weekend. That goal led us to planning a trip to Mammoth Cave, Kentucky with my parents and sister. Mammoth Cave is the largest cave system in...
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A Fiesta Baby Shower
This weekend we had the pleasure of hosting a baby shower for one of my really good girlfriends. She is expecting her second - a girl this time! - in November and we are so happy and excited for them. To celebrated, I planned a fiesta! We kept it very casual and set up a...
Contractor Taking Down The Walls - The Reveal!
Here's an update on the contractor removing two walls for our upcoming coastal kitchen makeover! We have had a contractor in our home for the past two weeks working to take down the walls between the front living room and the dining room as well as the wall between the dining room and the kitchen....
Wall Removal Progress
Our house is looking so different on the first floor! Last week we showed you the first day of demo when the walls came down. After day one, progress looked a loooooot slower each day. Still, it started looking better and better each day. First, the electrician and plumber came and rerouted the wires and...
Drywalling Over Popcorn Ceilings
Drywalling Over Popcorn Ceilings As you might have heard, our entire new house has popcorn ceilings. That's 1,900 square feet of the nineties, baby! Not only is popcorn out of style, but the texture casts lots of little shadows all over the ceiling, making the room look much darker than it really is. Want a...
A peek inside our walls
We've had contractors inside our house since last week doing a few projects and it's time to give you a first look at what they've been doing! We're super excited about our new open concept first floor and this is how it all started. Here's a look at what the area looked like first. Day...
How to reverse a dryer door - Samsung
We got a brand new washer and dryer when we moved into the house because the people that got our condo offered us $2,000 extra ca$h money to have us not take the washer and dryer from the condo. Uhhh, sure thing. When they came and installed the new units at the house, the dryer...
Master Bathroom Mini Makeover After & Budget Breakdown
We of course are loving the way that our master bathroom mini-makeover turned out! It is the exact refresh that this room needed to start feeling like ours. Plus, it's the first room that we've really made over, and we are feeling fantastic and excited to conquer the rest of the house. As a reminder,...
Little Updates in the New House
We've been working on lots of big projects recently like finishing up our master bathroom makeover and having walls taken down downstairs, but we also have been doing some small projects. If they might not be "blog worthy" on their own, we like to roll them all up together for a fun Friday post. Here...
DIY Football Field Serving Tray
Planning a Super Bowl party for friends soon? Try your hand at making a DIY football field serving tray for the snacks you serve! It's football season and we are all in on game day snacks and treats. While Sean loves it for the sport, I have to get invested in other ways. Themed crafts...
How to build and install floating shelves
Want to build and install floating shelves in your home? Here is an easy and inexpensive tutorial! We've been spending a lot of time on our master bathroom since we moved in. We're really excited to reveal the whole bathroom next week. One area we hadn't touched yet was over the toilet. In the condo,...
Preparing for the walls coming down
There are big things happening this week at the Charleston Crafted house. We are big on DIY, but there are some things you can't DIY, like tearing down load-bearing walls. I mean, yeah, technically we could do it ourselves, but that's a big undertaking and quite risky. We had a contractor start work yesterday to...
How to turn an old medicine cabinet into open shelving
Want to replace a medicine cabinet with something more modern? Here is a step by step tutorial on how to turn an old medicine cabinet into open shelving! Many older homes were designed with nooks between the studs in the bathroom to slide in a built in medicine cabinet. These traditional hinged boxes are great...
Friday Five - Campaign Furniture Under $200
We recently shared our new campaign side table dressers and instagram went crazy for them! Ours were Craigslist finds, but if you aren't lucky or patient enough to find any on your instagram, I wanted to share some low cost ready to go options. Campaign furniture is really popular right now, so it is available...
How to Repair a Door Jamb After Removing the Door
We recently shared how we built a beautiful barn door that now hangs in between our master bedroom and bathroom. One final step in this process is to repair the door jamb. I waited a few days to make sure that we liked the barn door (we love it!) just because it makes it a...
The Easiest Way to Hang String Lights on a Screened Porch
The backyard is basically the biggest reason we bought our house. The amazing view of the lake makes waking up each morning and walking outside a dream. Add to that evenings sitting outside on the screened porch with a cold beverage, we're really enjoying our choice. We eat as many of our meals on the...
Gorgeous Kauai Photo Triptych Over the Bed
Want to turn a photo into a triptych and frame it? Here is how we did it DIY style! Now that we've covered the walls of our bedroom with a fresh coat of paint, we needed to start accessorizing so that the room didn't look barren. We started with newly refinished campaign dressers and wall-mounted...
Mounting Desk Lamps on the Wall
Considering mounting desk lamps on your wall? It's a great DIY hack! Here is how to do it. Last week, we told you about how we bought some authentic campaign dressers on craigslist and refinished them as our side tables. They look awesome and are perfect for storage and as tables. The unfortunate thing is...
How to Mount a Barn Door Using TC Bunny Hardware from Amazon
Yesterday we shared with you how to build a rustic barn door like the one we constructed to go between our master bedroom and bathroom. Building the door was super easy, but when it came to mounting it, that was a different story. We ordered the TCBunny Sliding Door Hardware from Amazon and had a...
FREE PDF Plans - Build a Rustic Barn Door the Easiest & Cheapest Way
If you are wondering how to build a rustic barn door, we are laying out the full tutorial in this blog post! This post will show you exactly how to make a barn door for your home. We will also share the cost and DIY barn door plans. Add this easy DIY to your to...
A Campaign Dresser and Side Table Makeover
Sometimes, the Craigslist odds are really in your favor. I have been looking for campaign furniture non-seriously for years. How can you not crush on the sleek lines and shiny hardware? I have never really had a place for it. But, now we do. In the condo, I used the side of my vanity as...
A New Bar Set Up
One of the things that we were really excited about in buying a house was having a home bar. Not a wet bar or anything like that, just a nice piece of furniture to store liquor and wine and use during parties or even when it is just us. So, I started trolling Craigslist. I...
How to Make a Super Simple DIY Tile Serving Tray
Today I have a really quick & sweet DIY tile tray for you. Since we got our new bar, I have been looking for ways to style it. I tend to go too blank or too junky with my styling, but have been reading a lot of tutorials lately that suggest using trays to corral...
I stripped for the first time this weekend...
How's that for a catching title? I hate to disappoint you, but no, I didn't put this gorgeous piece of man-body out for the world to see. Instead, I pulled out the weather stripping around our front door that was broken and missing in places and replaced it with new weather stripping. I honestly didn't...
How to update & modernize your ceiling fan
Want to update your ceiling fan without replacing it? Here are some easy ideas to make them more stylish! If you read a lot of DIY or decorating blogs you probably know that most design-minded people hate two types of lights - the boob light and the ceiling fan. I think that every single light...
An Egg-cellent Swing Update
Our front porch has the perfect little nook for a rocking chair or a swing. I was thinking about what I wanted to fill the space when Sean informed me that his dad was offering us anything that we wanted from his house's yard and shed (since he sold it and wouldn't need to take...
How to Replace a Garage Door Keypad
When we moved in, another thing we didn't notice about the place was how they garage door keypad on the outside of the garage didn't work. We thought we just needed the code, but it turns out that the keypad itself had no batter or connection ports. We decided it would be easier to just...
Minnesota, dontcha know?
This weekend we flew up to Minnesota for the wedding of one of my oldest friends. They live in Buffalo now, but met in Minnesota where he was in grad school and she grew up. We always joke about it and call it #Minnesocold, but it has never disappointed. It was in the 70's while...
What to do with a Formal Living Room
One thing that we insisted that we didn't want when we were house hunting was a formal living room. What a waste of space! We would never sit there. We aren't fancy people. Well, we got a formal living room. Our formal living room (I am trying to call it the "front room" to make...
Painting our Bathroom Vanity
Want to paint your bathroom vanity? Here's how we did it! It's amazing what a little paint can do. Last week, we told you about how we scraped and painted the popcorn ceilings in our master bathroom. That was just phase one of our mini master bathroom makeover. We had to paint the walls too...
Choosing Paint Colors in the Master Suite
Paint is one of the cheapest and easiest ways to refresh a room, but it's not something that we have had to do in a while. So, it was a whole refresher for us on how to choose paint colors, and now that we've painted both the master bedroom and bathroom and are happy with...
Homeowner Fail: How to get Dried Paint off of Carpet
Want to know how to get dried paint off of carpet? Here is the technique that worked best for us! Last week I came home to a great surprise. And by great I mean big and terrible. We had just finished painting our master bathroom around midnight the night before, and in our exhaustion didn't...
Our Top Tips on How to Scrape Popcorn Ceilings
If you're planning to scrape your popcorn ceilings soon, here are our top tips on what to do to have the best results! If you are house hunting and seeing a lot of houses built in the 90's in the south, there is a good chance that you are seeing a lot of popcorn ceilings....
Give it a Sparkle
This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #GiveItASparkle #CollectiveBias Happy Monday folks! We are in full-fledged DIY land here at the Charleston Crafted household, trying to make some good progress on our mini-master suite makeover before we head out to Minnesota for a wedding this weekend....
Our Initial Yard Plan
One of the things I was most excited about with buying a house was the prospect of a yard. I had a huge yard as a kid and really wanted space to call our own outdoors. I wanted to do yard work and I wanted a place for CiCi to run around like an insane...
How to Repair Broken Plantation Shutters
Have the blinds broken out of your shutters? Here's our simple step by step guide on How to Repair Broken Plantation Shutters. Unfortunately for me, I now know how to repair broken plantation shutters. Fortunately for you, I can now teach you all about plantation shutter repair. Broken plantation shutters can come in a lot...
New Homeowner Fails: Water Pipe Edition
We love DIY and love trying new things. Morgan and I see ourselves as being very handy people, but being a homeowner has thrown a lot of things at us that we never saw before. Back in the condo, everything was pretty squared away and we only had to worry about things inside the walls....
Our Housewarming Party!
This weekend we held the first party at our new house! We have been working very hard to get unpacked and organized and get some of our initial projects done on the house, so we were ready to show it off. We invited our friends and about 10 sets of neighbors that we've met and...
More Little Updates in the New House
We are finally feeling in the groove in our new house. While our "big projects" for the month of August are the master bathroom and bedroom ceilings and walls and getting a contractor to look at some walls downstairs (yay!) we are still working on a lot of small projects every day. Here's the latest...
What to do if None of your Bathroom Outlets Work
When we moved into our home, it took us a while to realize that a lot of outlets didn't work. The bathrooms, the laundry room, and the screened porch all had non-functioning outlets. There were no reset buttons on the outlets and I had no idea how to fix it. We lived like that for...