enJOY it
an archived personal and craft blog from Elise Blaha Cripe.
Category: new home
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… I bit the bullet and we started painting. I think this might be just the jump start of color that I needed to get our bedroom DONE and AWESOME. More Monday. Have a great weekend!
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Better right? Here's what I realized : Before our "office" was a home office. Like the kind of place were you keep your computer and all your books. The place that you work in after you come home from your real job. Totally great. Except that this is my real job. Our home office needed…
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The first room I set up when we moved in was the office. I set it up as mostly a personal craft space, not so much as a business craft space. And as the business stuff has acculated over the past few months, I have found myself dreaming up cool ideas and storage I could…
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When I decided to do the headboard in black and white, I changed my mind about the "art" that I wanted hanging over the bed. Somewhere between wide awake and dreamland, I thought of making simple silhouettes. I picked up unfinished round wood plaques at Michael's & painted them white with what we had on…
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We did it! We also cheated – our headboard is 30×60 inches and is currently hanging on the wall behind the bed. I need a garage and some power tools, and as soon as I have those, our headboard will have legs. But right now? This totally works for us. This project is seriously simple.…
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In August, Paul and I bought a new mattress. It was a big purchase, but something we had wanted to do since about three years ago when I moved in. And since August, I have been dreaming about buying an actual bed. Something with a headboard and legs. Something that isn't just a metal frame…
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I got our Bora Bora memory up on the wall. I bought a square frame (with an 11.5×11.5 mat opening) at Ikea yesterday and decided instead of being patient and waiting for a large print, I would just piece together the photograph myself. I scanned the Polaroid in at a high resolution, divided it up…
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It’s very likely that we’ll be moving again next June (military + medicine = a lot of moves) so I should probably get started on decorating our bedroom. Otherwise, I might as well begin focusing on our next place. The dresser with fancy knobs we have. The side table we have. The love sign we…
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Originally, the size of the kitchen was what we didn't like about the apartment. With basically one drawer and limited accessible cupboards, it seemed too small. So we bought extra space at Ikea to store our dishes and small appliances and now it's pretty perfect. (Plus the free standing shelf is a good earthquake detector…
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