enJOY it
an archived personal and craft blog from Elise Blaha Cripe.
Category: new home
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Over the weekend we finished up Ellerie & baby girl number two's (who we are 99% sure has a name but I'll most likely not share it until she's here) room. I am so happy with how it turned out and really happy that it was a fairly inexpensive make-over. You can see what Ellerie's…
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The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo If you've been here awhile you may or may not know that I am ALL ABOUT THE TIDYING. Actually the more I think about it, the more you may not know that. So here's the deal…ready? I hate clutter. I mean, no one LOVES clutter.…
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I tend to blog about things and then either causally mention an update or share in the comments section later or respond via email on how those things are working out. Today I wanted to give a big round-up of the most popular projects I get asked about in case you too have been wondering.…
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When I moved into this house in February 2013, Paul was deployed and Ellerie was still on the inside (I was about 27 weeks pregnant). SO MUCH HAS HAPPENED IN THOSE TWO YEARS. Of least importance is the fact that we got the house decorated and functional. Today I thought it would be fun to…
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So tomorrow I am going to share our final house tour. I've got the place as good as it's going to get and am SO HOPEFUL that I can just sit back and live here for the last two years of Paul's residency. (We don't know where we are headed next, but we're 95% certain…
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So my deadline for a "complete house" has come and gone. And we are…done! I am excited to share some before (move-in day) and afters (two years and so many nail holes later!) in the next week or so. In the meantime, one more project post… I've had eight Ikea Ribba frames in my garage…
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Last weekend I dashed around the house like a crazy person hanging, cleaning and crossing-things off. I want to get this house done by February 27th, the two year anniversary of when I moved in. Now I realize "done" is an odd term. People don't like to think of houses being "finished" or home decor…
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You know how sometimes you see photos of an artist's workspace and it's just crammed with awesome layers, textures and colors? You feel like you could spend hours in there, uncovering treasures and magic? You feel like you're looking into their creative brain and it's amazing? It's a great feeling. But I have found I…
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Shortly after we switched out carpet for travertine in the office I turned my attention to the bedroom floor. In a perfect world, we would lay travertine across the whole house (it’s already in the rest of the main spaces) but it was expensive and not everyone prefers hard floors over carpet (which isn’t great…
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Last week I rented (from Nelson's Photo Supply in Little Italy) a wide angle lens (the Canon EF-S 10-22mm) to take photos of our bathroom for a project I'm working on. The photos turned out and I had some extra time so I decided to play with the lens in other areas of our house…
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