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....
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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...
Condo Profits & What We Did With Them
I went back and forth on sharing the details of our condo profits on the blog, but decided that the numbers are all public record and that some of you might find it interesting. I don't share it to brag or show off. We are not rich. We currently feel very very poor as we...
Master Bathroom Mini Makeover: The Plan
When we bought our new house, we knew that we would want to fully re do the master bathroom. However, we are prioritizing the kitchen and downstairs above it and so most likely won't get to a bathroom makeover for at least 12 months. So, in the meantime, we wanted to do a mini-makeover to...
How to Change a Rusted Old Mailbox
When we moved into our new house, there were a lot of little things we realized we hadn't noticed during our walk throughs. Like how there weren't any blinds or curtains in the whole place. Also, how the mailbox had no pull tab and no flag. WTF. It seems stupid, but it's one of those...
The Condo Sold! Things we'll miss & a breakdown
This week, we sadly had to say goodbye to our beloved condo that we turned into our first home. Our condo was an amazing place for us to begin our lives together. It's where we first lived together, where we planned our wedding together, where we came home from amazing trips to Italy, Yellowstone and...
A Mattress In A Box?!
Interested in a GelFoamBed mattress in a box? Here is our honest review! ;lkjaajsdafljkjlewopppppwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwvmmmmmmmmmmmaod. Whoa, excuse me. Sorry, I fell asleep typing while lying here on the most comfortable mattress I've ever slept on. For real. We got a mattress in a box (a what?) from GelFoamBed for our new bed and oh man, it's...
King Me
One thing that we were really excited about with the new house was getting a king sized bed. Like really really excited. We had actually been sleeping on a double bed since May and were so very excited for the space and comfort of a king. Sean shared some of the beds that we were...
Getting the Guest Bathroom Ready for Guests
We are finally starting to feel like the new house is unpacked and we can start working on more projects! A big deadline that we have is that my parents are coming to visit this weekend, so we want to have the guest spaces ready for them. I mean, they're going to be using cardboard...
Organizing Our Garage
Hey there! Below was our original garage organization, but we've since redone it in a MUCH better way. We have new permanent solutions in there and you should check out the final product! One of the things we were looking for when buying a house was a man cave/second living space. We ended up choosing...
Little Updates & Moving Woes
Today I just wanted to round up a few of the little projects that we have been working on in our new home. Alone, they aren't quite blog-worthy, but they do sort of add up to something. On that note, we really thought that we would have so much more done by now. I had...
The best Ways to Get Rid of Ants
Have an ant infestation in your home? Here are the best ways to get rid of ants! Say goodbye to pesky ants and reclaim your home! When we bought our new house, we quickly realized that we had a pretty major ant infestation. Luckily, they are just small black ants and not big fire ants...
How to frost glass windows
Wondering how to frost glass windows in your home? It's easier than you might think using frosted window film! Here's how. It's funny the things that you do and don't notice when you tour a house. People notice layout and paint colors but often overlook the little details. One little detail that we totally overlooked was...
Plantation Shutters in the Living Room
Whew, it's been a heck of a week since we moved in to our new house! When we were inspecting the house before we closed, we noticed that none of the windows had any sort of blinds or anything to cover them. So, considering we were going out of town the first weekend after moving...
Tropical DIY Driftwood Planter
Want to make yourself a DIY driftwood planter? This tutorial will show you how to add driftwood to any pot! This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #CompleteWithGlade #CollectiveBias We love living so close to the beach and use our Charleston location as inspiration for...
Weekend Recap: Trip to Richmond
Even in the middle of our big house move, we had to take time out this past weekend to head to Richmond, Virginia, for my father's wedding. It's about seven hours from Charleston by car, so not quick, but not too terribly long either, and we had an audio book to keep us going. We...
Moving Weekend Recap
Wow, this was a really long weekend of moving in the extreme heat. I don't know exactly what we expected, but everything took a lot more time and was a lot more difficult than we anticipated. Regardless, we have officially moved! We still own the condo through the end of the month, but for all...
New Home To Do List
We are so excited about our new home! One thing that we really wanted in a home was projects and oh boy did we get it. Here is our preliminary project list. Front of house: Add swing to front porch Paint door Update gold door hardware Update landscaping in front of house Plant and grow...
Our New Home Tour
We are so excited to finally share a tour of our new home with you today! We are featuring a mixture of pictures from the listing and that we took while touring. We are simply charmed by the curb appeal of our new home. It is located on a corner near the front of the...
We Closed on Our New House!
We closed on our new house yesterday!! Woohoo! We can't begin to tell you how excited we are. This has been a long time coming and if you've been keeping up with us you know we've had some struggles in the house hunting process. We put in a few offers but we finally ended up...
Our 5 Favorite Purchases for the Condo
TODAY we close on our new house, but we are still feeling sentimental about leaving the condo! We will be filling you in with all sorts of details on the new place very soon, but until then, we are happily dwelling in the past. We already shared our 5 favorite DIY projects in the condo, and...
Navigating the Home Buying Process
I had NO IDEA everything that went into buying a home. We are closing on our new house tomorrow (yay!!) and it has been quite the ordeal. Honestly, I feel like we've been running a marathon of inspections, appraisals, negotiations, paperwork, etc. I can't believe how this process would have happened 30 years ago when...
Our 5 Favorite DIY Projects in the Condo
We are moving this weekend (in case ya haven't heard!) and are starting to feel a sappy level of sentimental towards this ole condo of ours. As excited as we are to move, it has been really good to us. It's been a great place to try our hand at some small, cosmetic DIY and...
We're All Packed Up & Ready to Move
Happy Monday! We spent the whole weekend packing and are feeling very ready to move next weekend - despite the forecast for 90 degree heat. Here's some packing tips that we have come up with throughout the process: Take this as an opportunity to purge. Since we are just moving down the street, we are...
A Quick Trip to Montreal!
This past weekend I headed up to Montreal, Canada, for a bachelor party for the guy who was my best man. He's my oldest friend, dating back to when we met at the ripe old age of two. I know more about this guy than most anyone else, so I was there to support him....
We Bought a House!
We are so very excited to announce that we are under contract to buy a house! We close on the 30th and now that we have finished the inspection and appraisal, we feel comfortable enough that this is really happening and are excited to share it with you! As you might know, we have been...
How We Quickly Abandoned "For Sale By Owner"
We love to DIY, so of course we wanted to try to DIY sell our condo. Combine that with the fact that we had the potential to save 6% - about $10k - and we were all about it. At first. There's someone in our complex who owns several condos and always said that he...
Clearing Out Memories
This was a tough physical and emotional weekend for me. I drove up to Charlotte and helped my dad clear out the attic of our house as he prepares to move out next month. I won't be able to help him the day of the actual move, so I volunteered to help him get everything...
How to Shorten a Pair of Bermuda Shorts
While I'm definitely no fashionista, I do have a soft spot for all things Lilly Pulitzer. I occasionally pop into the Plato's Closet near my office and do a quick once through of the Lilly section (they have it all on one rack making it a very quick stop). Last week I was psyched to...
DIY Driftwood Candle Centerpiece
Want to make a DIY Driftwood centerpiece? Here's an easy DIY tutorial! We love living so close to the beach and use our Charleston location as inspiration for tropical touches in our home. We have previously shared tutorials for a driftwood coffee table, a driftwood cupcake display for our wedding, and our driftwood Christmas tree...
It's Bed Time...
We recently told you about how we had to flip flop our sleeping situation around when we got a new bed from Morgan's sister that we want to use long term in one of our guest rooms. That left us sleeping on a full-sized bed and dreaming of the night we get to curl up...
Improvised Seinfeld - Review
This weekend as part of Spoleto, we headed down to Theater 99 and saw the traveling comedy show "Improvised Seinfeld." Improvised Seinfeld is a group of four comedies based in New York City who travel to do their Seinfeld routine. The premise is that they get a cue of something from the audience and then...
Final Condo Tour
No, we haven't moved yet. But, we did make a furniture switcheroo last week and wanted to be sure to capture the true essence of our condo before we started treating it like a temporary storage unit. So, here we have the final look of our condo. You can hop over to our condo tour...
Simple Sandal Organization
I am head over heels for my closet organization system, which features a whole shaving system just to organize shoes. However, I have been guilty of just throwing my sandals in a pile. Whoops! So, I decided to quickly organize them better. I knew that it would be better to store them horizontally instead of...
Entertaining Tip: DIY Dip Bowls
Here's how to make DIY dip bowls out of real fruits and veggies so your party looks extra special! This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #DipintoMeze #CollectiveBias Summertime means lots of cookouts and pool parties. While the star of the party might traditionally be the...
Mighty Paw HandleX2 Dual Handle Dog Leash Review
Last weekend, CiCi ran into one of her furry friends outside when we were walking and they started to wrestle and play with each other while we were standing there talking to her owner. Somehow, their leashes got tangled up and the clip on CiCi's leash broke. Bummer. We needed to order a new one...