Guest Post: Just a Touch of Gray!!!

To kick off the series this week, we have Rachel from Just a Touch of Gray!  If you have had your hand on the pulse of the design blogging world lately, then you know that it's little heart has been going pitter-patter for Rachel and the fabulous revamp of her first home! I was completely bowled over by the fabulous transformations and the chic interiors that she has created.  This girl has got it.

What's "it"???

This:

Hi everyone! I'm Rachel Gray from {Just a Touch of Gray} popping over to share "what makes my house a home". Thanks Aubrey for inviting me to participate in this fabulous series! First a little background... hubs and I bought our 1960 ranch last summer and we are the proud second owners. Much of the house was untouched since it was built - whoa! But that was exactly what we were looking for... a house to put our personal touch on and make our own. We started by painting, tearing out old doors and trim, and refinishing the hardwood floors. Although those things definitely helped incorporate our style into the house we knew it was going to take more than that to infuse the feeling of "home" into our first house so we got to work!

The first room we transformed was our living room...

From this:

To this:

But it's the personal touches that really give this room that homey feeling, like photos of family and friends. Recently I've been on a mission to add more photos throughout our house. So far I've accumulated a bunch of frames {that's step 1, right?!} so now I just need to fill them. 

I also love this silver bird votive holder.

My mom gave them to everyone that came to my parent's house the morning after our wedding for brunch. Of course hubs and I were already honeymooning by that point, but it's special to me that many family members have this to remember our wedding day.

One of the next rooms we worked on was our master bathroom.

From this:

To this:

But again, it's the little things like this crystal door knob (sitting on the book). This knob is from my grandmothers house... the house my Mom grew up in. It was just sold this past year and I'm thankful to have a memento from it. {Yes, that is the silver birdie making another appearance for our bathroom photo shoot!} 

Also, one of my best friends that read in our wedding hand wrote 1 Corinthians 13:4-8 on an index card and read off of it in our wedding. I don't know how I ended up with it, but I love seeing it everyday.

Next up is our master bedroom. We made a lot of changes to this room from it's original state... 

But you'll have to stay tuned for our Roomspiration Blog Hop to see my reveal - Sept. 30! That's just a few days after Aubrey hosts kids bedrooms here!


But I will show you this...

This switch plate cover is also from my grandmother's house. They bought that house in 1949 and just sold it this year - talk about memories!

And last but not least, our dining room table is one of my absolute favorite things in our house. I love the rustic look, it's "x" legs, and of course the fact that my husband built it out of wood we tore out of our house. Yep, he made it out of door jams. I looove it. 

We transformed our dining room...

From this... 

To this: 

For me, making your house a home is not always about what you buy from the store. Sometimes it's simply the meaning and memories behind the things given to you that makes a house a home.

Thanks again, Aubrey for having me! I really enjoyed it!

Oh Rachel, you tease!!! I can't wait for the Roomspiration blog hop so I can see it!!! Seriously, the room transformations in her home are some of the most dramatic I have ever seen!

And up tomorrow:

Katie from On the Banks of Squaw Creek!!!

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