Guest Post: Rachel from Just a Touch of Gray

Today I would like to welcome Rachel from Just a Touch of Gray! I found her through Emily A. Clark the day she featured both of our projects on Blog Stalking: Great Reader Projects.

That day, I was blown away by the way Rachel and her husband's living room remodel turned out...drop dead gorgeous! The second time I stopped by Rachel was featuring the remodel of their master bathroom and from then on I was hooked.

I immediately emailed Rachel and asked her to stop by and share her blog with you, I'm so happy she said yes.

Take it away Rachel...

Hi all! I'm Rachel Gray from {Just a Touch of Gray} and I'm so excited to be here at The Mustard Ceiling! Just like Elizabeth, my hubs I purchased a brick ranch home. It was built in 1960 and we bought it from its original owners one year ago. Boy was it a fixer upper if I've ever seen one. It would be a major understatement saying it needed a little help. So, as my tag line reads, we've been dedicated to fix things up "one room at a time"

As soon as we could get our hands on those keys tools and paint brushes were a flyin'. We also had the hardwood floors refinished before moving in and replaced all the interior doors and trim. What a huge difference that made in itself! Then we decided to revamp the living room first. Our theory was that since it was the room we spend the most waking time in and the room we'd use when we had family and friends over it would be our first priority. This was the first time we furnished and decorated a room from scratch. And let me tell you... it was fun!

This is what we started with....

Very log cabin-esque, right? Yeah, not really what we were going for, but we saw the potential!

Here it is again after having the original red oak floors refinished...

And after a lot of love, this is what it looks like now...

It finally feels like us.

Then, it was on to the master bathroom. We wanted to make this bathroom remodel as cost effective as possible without giving up some of the features we knew we wanted. To keep costs down we covered the tile on the walls with beadboard {yep- right over the tile}, didn't do any rearranging {i.e. keep the toilet where it is, etc}, and kept the original 1960 blue tile floors. But we didn't compromise the fact that we were dying to get some marble into the house, and we didn't forget we had our eye on an over-mount sink for awhile now.

So with those thoughts in mind, we started with this...

Lived with it for awhile like this...

And finally turned it into this...

And much to our delight our tiny little bathroom was featured in the Sept 2011 issue of Cottages and Bungalows magazine!!! The issue just hit stores last week - we were so excited!

Hope you all enjoyed seeing some of our before and afters! I have posted more detail and more pictures over on my blog {here}. Check out my house tour tab too for before pics of all our rooms.

Thanks for having me, Elizabeth!

*Rachel*

Can you see WHY I am hooked on Just a Touch of Gray!?
Thanks again for stopping by today Rachel.