subject: Shabby chic makes your house truly trendy [print this page] The haute new trend this season for interior decoration aficionados and the fashionable set is having vintage furniture in their modern designer homes. This kind of furniture is also called shabby chic furniture. The trend probably originated with the same hipsters who shunned regular designer wear bought in high street stores and decided to scour antique shops for vintage clothing. This trend has now found its way to furniture and upholstery that look like vintage pieces. There are many ways of getting shabby chic pieces for your home. You can roll your own by going hunting in attics or scouring garage sales for that perfect piece, or you can now go to the cool high end stores and buy perfect vintage pieces that look just as authentic as the real things but are brand new.
Vintage furniture can be either the real deal or an original fake that has been painstakingly crafted. This can be done by painting and repainting it over and over and then scraping layers off to give it a worn look. In fact some manufacturers go so far as to drill holes to emulate worm holes for that really worn down and dilapidated look just like the real thing. Either way a shabby chic kitchen with vintage furniture in it looks great because modern kitchens are clean and airy and full of shiny equipment. The sometimes clinical coldness of this is offset and balanced nicely by some vintage furniture that makes the place look warmer and more inviting. This is important as modern kitchens are one of the few areas in the house that nuclear families spend considerable amount of time together in. And the more you can do to make this family area a friendlier and more comfortable place to be in, the higher the chances of your family spending more time together in it.
If you are one of those trendy fashion victims that hate buying new branded clothes that everyone else is wearing and only shop at cool thrift stores, look no further as shabby chic is the furniture style for your home. You can now find all the furniture of this style online without going scouting in smelly attics or garage sales and high end stores. All the original pieces that are unlike anything else you can buy, are available online.
