All about Shabby Chic
Shabby Chic
What is Shabby Chic ?
Basically Shabby Chic is the kind of furniture,furnishings,carpets and decorative items you would love to find in a provincial French Antiques or Brocantes Market.
Useful Household and Garden things that were well made and beautifully designed to add a touch of Faded Elegance to your home.
It is rather like going to a French Town auction of the contents of a Great Estate or Chateau.
It is not quite junk but instead the treasures you rarely find in an antique market.
Style is everything - and French Style at that.
It is not limited to interiors though - Shabby Chic Garden furniture loks great too
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6 hearts garland shabby chic style egg duck |  |
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6 hearts garland shabby chic style RED | |
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6 hearts garland shabby chic style cream and red | |
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Vintage Shabby Chic Black Silver Tone Metal Weighing Scales Weights QQ17 | |
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£24.95 | 23m |
You accept Shabby Chic as it is - authentic pieces with fading,rusty hinges,foxed mirrors.
Furniture is often Pine painted in flat pale blue or green emulsion with motifs of country subjects either painted on or with floral transfers.
Mirrors are often huge with ornate or fantastic frames.
Wire Birdcages abound but this time to be filled with flowers or treasures instead of birds.
Pressed steel chairs and Zinc covered tables for your kitchen and a victorian hipbath with a huge showerhead and a pedestal for your bathroom.
Your bedroom may have painted bedside tables or even an armoire while there will definitely be an old fashione Huge Bed with a brass or Iron Bedhead and faded floral bedclothes and quilt covers.
In short it is French Style of the past - the kind of surroundings you would expect to see in a French Art Movie of the 40s or 50s.
It represents a longing for safer, friendlier times where people stopped to talk over a half door to your kitchen while admiring your new zinc watering can in the garden.
Shabby Chic is rather like stepping into a movie set from the past - except it is Your own home this time.
Enjoy your Shabby Chic home - it may well change your life !
Our Store Pages on Shabby Chic :
http://www.all4yourhome.co.uk/Store/shabby-chic
http://www.all4yourhome.co.uk/Store/shabby-bags
http://www.all4yourhome.co.uk/Store/shabby-signs