This style is specially created for those who appreciate antiquity, who like to wander around the “flea markets” and “draw” strength and inspiration from touching old things left over from grandmothers, who feel special charm in vintage slightly worn household items and furnishings that carry in itself the energy of more than one generation of people. It was created by a woman, Englishwoman Rachel Ashwell, and this style is primarily for women, sophisticated and romantic. What is its special charm?
Shabby Chic Room
The interior, decorated in this style, as if "powdered", is muddied by time, like magnificent ladies' wigs of the past, abundantly sprinkled with powder, like an old lace ball gown from the museum, a little shabby, tarnished, but not lost its bewitching charm.
So, the color of the walls and the whole atmosphere is necessarily light pastel shades: white, cream, pale pink or blue, light lilac, light golden and other shades. It is better to identify the main light tone and complement it with shades of half a lighter and darker, bright colors are excluded. As the material for the walls, wallpaper or painting is used, and decorative plaster, which gives the finish a slightly sloppy look, is also quite suitable. An aged parquet board or laminate with a pattern and a touch of natural wood is laid on the floor. The ceiling is best left white and finished with a curly stucco molding.
Shabby Chic Bedroom
This room in the house is the best suited for a creative experiment. The Shabby Chic bedroom is a bright room in muted, soothing and relaxing gentle shades. A bed with a high carved back, elegant dressers with a large number of drawers, a dressing table with a mirror, a pouf and an easy chair, upholstered with light silky fabric in a flower or strip - these are the furniture elements (preferably creamy or white) that will create the necessary
stylistic mood. The Shabby-chic bedroom can be furnished with new furniture, but always vintage, artificially and artfully aged. This also applies to lamps and small decorative elements, which are a very significant part of any interior. And, of course, in order to complete the picture and create a harmonious stylistic image of the room, it is very important to choose the right textiles. Curtains, bedspreads, decorative rollers and pillows on the bed are sewn from light, light translucent fabrics, lace or imitate lace, from natural fibers. It will be very appropriate to trim with braid, embroidery and light light silk fringe.
Shabby chic style
Another room in which this style will look very harmonious is a room for a girl, a little princess. That's where you can use it to create a real fairy tale. Light elegant furniture, light textiles, a translucent canopy over the bed, an abundance of lace and ruffles, painted or stucco borders on the walls, small flower wallpapers, pink buds on silk pillows and boxes for various little things - interior elements that little girls really like.
Not only the nursery and the bedroom - in the style of shabby chic, a living room, kitchen, and bathroom can also be decorated. In recent years, it has become very popular. A light touch of antiquity, “shabby” chic with a patina of time creates a special mood of relaxation and peace.