enJOY it

an archived personal and craft blog from Elise Blaha Cripe.

Category: new home

  • elise starts planning.

    Welcome to Operation Decorate a New Place. As I mentioned earlier, I have not yet been inside the unit we are going to be renting. But I pieced the (not at all to scale) floor plan together from photos and videos of the space. It's a two story loft and the first floor is mostly…

  • tree stump table.

    I'm sneaking another post in this morning to share the side table my sister-in-law, Kristen, made for our apartment. How cute is that?! When I decided to redo our living room last spring, I wanted something different so we replaced a lot of our old box store stuff with handmade and antique. This table was…

  • new office wall.

    The strangest part of this deployment is that we will probably move to a new place before Paul gets home. It's a bummer because I adore this apartment, but sort of nice because I can make things work for just one person for the rest of the time I'm here. Until yesterday, this meant I…

  • new living room & dining nook.

    Okay. I've hyped this room to no end. If you're curious as to what this room looked like before, click here. Basically, it was fun and cute, but nothing too original. And it's not that things are "original" now, but at least you can't find everything online. To me, it feels like it has a…

  • project 6 of 26 : “new” chairs.

    I'm rolling with the green. There are some things that we can do in this apartment (like build a new coffee table) and somethings that we can't (like build a new dining table). I've got a plan for what I would like our new one to look like, but with the small space we have,…

  • elise gets painty.

    I shared a peek of our painting plan last weekend & am happy to announce… …we now have stripes! Gray & white ones! They extend along the wall behind our TV and then around the dining table nook. You might be thinking, "Elise, you're an idiot. You'll be moving soon, this was a lot of…

  • the trunk & other thoughts.

    TA-DA! We got our trunk home. It was pretty high tech : we pushed it four blocks on a rolling dolly. This trunk is HUGE. Much bigger that I realized. I figured it would make a good coffee table until it was in our living room next to our current coffee table and it stood…

  • interrupting the blog break

    …to share my new coffee table. It's a BIG white trunk that needs a lot of TLC on the inside. And it's a preview of my new reality blog show : "How Elise & Paul Recovered from an Ikea Addiction." Stay tuned.

  • our bedroom : complete.

    You guys. I don't blame you if cannot believe it took me eight months to get this room together. I mean really. It still looks pretty empty. But I should have snapped some before photos. Back when we had mismatched bedside tables and nothing on the walls. Because, at least now, I have put some…

  • new dresser obsessed.

    We went from a perfectly fine gray dresser with boring knobs, to gray with exciting white knobs (from Anthropologie), to turquoise with the same exciting knobs.   And in true Elise fashion, I rushed right into this project without sanding the wood on the drawers or the top and I can already tell we are…