  Understanding the properties of the crust and the core as well as its
interface is essential for accurate astrophysical modeling of phenomena such as
glitches, X-ray bursts or oscillations in neutron stars. To study the
crust-core properties, it is crucial to develop a unified and consistent scheme
to describe both the clusterized matter in the crust and homogeneous matter in
the core. The low density regime in the neutron star crust is accessible to
terrestrial nuclear experiments. In order to develop a consistent description
of the crust and the core of neutron stars within the same formalism, we use a
density functional scheme, with the model coefficients in homogeneous matter
related directly to empirical nuclear observables. In this work, we extend this
scheme to non-homogeneous matter to describe nuclei in the crust. We then test
this scheme against nuclear observables.
