Shabby Chic Furniture - How to Turn Your Home Into a Cozy Place

Shabby Chic Furniture - How to Turn Your Home Into a Cozy Place

Contemporary homes have all adopted the latest craze in furniture fashion, called shabby chic furniture. The shabby chic style creates a very special and homely feeling, as each piece of furniture is unique. Shabby chic is a kind of style that balances elegant items with old and tattered, restored furniture. Old lace and shimmering silver are used along with vintage lace and soft rugs. All these items are used to create a special and unique living space for your family.

In 1989, Rachel Ashwell started the shabby and chic decorating style when she marketed refinished furnishings from the flea market and slipcovers that are washable from her boutique in California. Decorators and retailers worldwide have embraced the style and started incorporating it into their styles to create livable, comfortable living spaces.

Shabby chic is about restoring old, traditional pieces of furniture and making them contemporary. Usually these pieces are sanded to a certain point and then painted again.

Contrary to normal painting of furniture you does not have to sand right down to the last paint layer. Only certain segments of the furniture are sanded down to this level. When the sanding has been done then the painting begins.

The color scheme is quite different to conventional decorating. The colors are softer, faded and pale. Checks, stripes, and floral go a long way in making the home appear inviting to visitors. It is less complicated to use one color and then use different fabrics with this in the same color.

Creativity is key when working with the furniture. Select certain furniture and then work with that. Wooden tables can be manufactured out of old wooden boxes. These tables could be used to stack photos and flowers or other similar objects on. The corner of the room could be the place for a chair that is pale in color with a vase and flowers on the chair.

Old doors, wrought iron gates or wooden tabletops could form the headboard in your bedroom. Floral fabrics, gingham, blue chintz could be used to decorate the material used for the headboard.

To avoid upholstering the whole sofa in the living room, one can use floral slipcovers. The walls can be covered with paintings of fruit, flowers and landscapes. These should not be new paintings but rather older second hand versions. Use antique frames to hold your family photos. These photos will look great on an old wooden table that has been painted over. The living room can house second hand wrought iron garden furniture.

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