“Shabby chic has changed the lives of many people. Aesthetics, flowers, a palette of shades of white and pink, glitter - all this is shabby chic,” writes the founder of this trend in interior design, Rachel Ashwell.
What it is? Shabby chic (English shabby - worn, shabby) is the name of the style in interior, decor, fashion. The name itself can literally be translated as “shabby shine” or “shabby chic,” which reflects its essence. This is a very young style, born in the late 80s of the twentieth century. Its author is a fan of old English interior decorating traditions, British Rachel Ashwell. Initially, shabby chic referred to the design of country houses in a rustic style. The style takes inspiration from antiques, and plays with the same antique finish.
Shabby chic style in the interior. Design Features
Law 1.
Recreating a romantic life, returning a person to warm memories of childhood.
Law 2.
Vintage influence. “Aging” techniques allow you to completely transform household items (from old frames and boxes to chairs, tables, chests of drawers, etc.), giving them a “second life” and a new place in the interior of the house.
Law 3.
For the shabby chic style, light floral motifs are acceptable, mainly roses and angels. From geometric patterns, a slightly noticeable cage or stripe is suitable.
Law 4.
The style is characterized by light pastel colors and pastoral floral motifs. Strict geometric patterns are undesirable - except perhaps a barely noticeable, blurred stripe or checkerboard.
Law 5.
The shabby chic style is typical for a variety of needlework techniques, be it scrapbooking, patchwork or another type of needlework.
Floristry in Shabby chic style
The most suitable flowers for this style are peonies and gypsophila. David Austin roses, ranunculus, freesias, hydrangeas and astilbe go well with other decorative elements.
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Shabby chic in the interior of your home
1. Roughly processed and unevenly painted walls, specially aged, will look harmonious in a shabby chic interior. With wallpaper, achieving the same effect will be a little more difficult, since you need to find wallpaper in an old format, for example, for textiles with a “patina” of antiquity.
2. Shabby chic furniture should occupy a key place in your interior. This is antique furniture purchased at a flea market or antique shop. The highlights of the interior design will be an antique chest of drawers and a rocking chair by the fireplace.
3. There can be a million shabby chic decor items! Antique clocks, bronze, faded paintings in antique frames, old televisions, gramophones, vases, candelabra, an antique telephone, various small objects from past eras, even a rusty charcoal iron. Flowers enliven the interior, but again in aged pots or even boxes.
Shabby chic - treasures from grandma's chest
Pomp and pomp, even with cracks and scuffs, should be visible in everything. New furniture with classic silhouettes is covered with light pastel paint, with artificial abrasions created in places. Accessories are from a bygone era: lace and embroidered napkins, hand-knitted bedspreads, light covers on upholstered furniture.
- The shabby chic style palette in the interior is soft pastel: white, light pink, light blue, ivory.
- Furniture is patinated; other aging technologies are also possible: it is good if several layers of paint are visible on a painted item.
- The ornaments are made in the Rococo style - roses, angels, birds of paradise.
- Furniture covers are actively used.
- Handmade items are encouraged, incl. modern handmade.
Bathroom decoration in shabby chic style
The shabby chic interior is the embodiment of the trends of the 50s of the last century. It is important that the finishing materials create the mood of that era. The main selection criterion is simplicity and naturalness. Mostly the decoration of such an interior consists of materials such as wood and stone.
Walls
In a shabby chic interior, carelessness, aging and minor scuffs are simply necessary. That is why the best option for finishing walls would be plaster or painting. Perfectly smooth surfaces are not needed here; small defects and irregularities will only be to your advantage. You can paint a plastered wall in any light natural shade.
Most of the walls can simply be painted in light colors
Another suitable option is wallpaper. Canvases with floral patterns and designs will look good.
When decorating the walls, it is allowed to use moisture-resistant wallpaper, and the bottom can be sheathed with panels
Another option is finishing using wood. The boards are painted a light shade and sanded down to create a worn effect. Although the last point is not required.
Ceiling
There are several different ways to finish the ceiling:
- whitewash;
- plastering and painting;
- finishing with wooden beams;
- stucco;
- decoration with boards.
Ideally, the ceiling covering should resemble the ceiling of a farmhouse
The style can be emphasized by deliberately creating roughness in the plastering, unpainted areas, and even cracks will look beautiful. Stretch ceilings definitely won’t fit into this design.
Floor
It is difficult to imagine anything other than wood on the floor of such a bathroom. For flooring, you can use natural wooden boards or various analogues - parquet or laminate. However, it is worth taking into account the characteristics of the room - an increased level of moisture will not benefit the tree. It is necessary to provide a special coating. Laying floor tiles in natural shades can also be a way out of the situation.
Wooden flooring is more suitable from a stylistic point of view
Ceramic coating with an antique effect is more practical and durable
Shabby chic
Shabby chic is not just an interior and design style, it is a lifestyle. Perhaps this is the only area of interior decor that can become a favorite hobby for anyone.
New book, published in 2013.
Good taste and elegance, a white and pink palette, floral motifs, furniture with a “patina of time”: peeling paint, scuffs, chips, slight carelessness - all this is shabby chic, which means it is comfortable, beautiful and practical. Each item has its own character and evokes warm memories of childhood.
In the book “Shabby Chic” you will learn everything about this style - its history, basic elements, materials and techniques, and also learn how to create unique decor for your home.
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The first part of the book - theory - about the shabby style, the history of the founder of the style, characteristics of the style, comparison with the vintage style. The book also describes the necessary materials for creating objects in the Shabby chic , some useful techniques characteristic of this style (decoupage, aging, use of craquelure).
The second part is practice.
Step-by-step master classes - 9 works: a card with a bird, a pendant, glasses in the shabby chic style, a mini chest of drawers, a wedding card with a flower, a tree of happiness, a Heart pendant, a photo frame, a jewelry box.
Technique
Wornness is imitated by multi-layer painting, removing paint with sandpaper on corners and individual convex areas, down to the lower layers of paint or to the wood. The outer layer is usually varnish.
The shabby chic style is very popular among decoupage artists. Not only large objects - furniture, mirrors, wall panels - are decorated in an antique style, but also plates and boxes. They use various aging techniques, smoky (shadow) decoupage, volumetric decoupage. Gilding and gold leaf - only if these elements do not overwhelm the overall meaning of shabby: delicate tones, soft pastel accents, a feeling of light, space, romance, a touch of antiquity, natural simplicity.
