Description of the shabby chic style in the interior:

SHEBBI-CHIC STYLE IN THE INTERIOR  - a combination of two incompatible concepts - beauty and shabby. The style takes inspiration from antiques and plays with the same vintage finish. 

The shabby chic style is not afraid to show defects as a result of the ruthlessness of time in relation to objects, but on the contrary, it openly demonstrates it. Do not confuse a shabby chic interior with a junk dealer's house. The shabby chic style uses traditional, high-quality items made from natural materials. The antiquity of such items only increases their value. 

 

Shabby chic walls: Roughly finished and unevenly painted walls that are specially aged will look good. With wallpaper, it will be a little more difficult to achieve the desired effect. Of course, you don’t need to tear off the pieces, but the wallpaper of the old format, let’s say under textiles with a haze of antiquity, will come in handy. A fresco in the form of painting on plaster will perfectly complement the shabby chic style.

Shabby chic ceiling: Artificially aged with a peeling whitewash effect. The grayish color of the ceiling will match the shabby chic style. It will also complement the stucco molding of classical styles, again aged (can be gilded).

Shabby chic floor: Better wood from aged parquet. Of course, you can use old parquet that imitates natural wood, but here the point is the convenience of walking on it. A floor made of old and even split tiles is also suitable, but the sight of a split one is a bad superstitious sign for many.

Shabby chic furniture: Occupies a key place in the shabby chic interior. Of course, this is antique furniture. It can be bought at a flea market or an antique shop. It can even be torn or broken, the main thing is that the furniture looks like it was inherited from your ancestors who lived in the last century; wicker furniture will also complement the interior. The highlight of the shabby chic style in the interior can be an old chest of drawers and a rocking chair by a shabby fireplace.

Shabby chic decor items: Also antique. Antique clocks, bronze, faded paintings in antique frames, old televisions, gramophones, vases, candelabra, antique telephones, various small objects of past eras, even a rusty iron on coals. Flowers enliven the interior, but again in aged pots or even boxes. Since the shabby chic interior does not express a specific style, then those whose "aging" expresses the style you have chosen will serve as decor items. There can be aged country items, and various different classic styles. 

Pro Tips:

1. Shabby chic design can be called bold. Such an interior solution is not suitable for everyone, and even then in this style one room or a thematic section of the house is more often performed than the whole apartment or house. The shabby chic style is suitable for people with an artistic beginning, creators, photographers, artists, or studios. In cases with cafes and other public institutions, shabby chic is partially performed, because not everyone wants to eat at a shabby table, even though not everyone wants to be artificially aged.

2. The most difficult thing is to show “life” in the interior, and not turn the house into an antique store. That is why shabby chic rooms are slightly enlivened with rich colors, fresh flowers or an aquarium, colorful fabrics, as if innocently left by the hostess's blanket. In general, your task is to show that you can live here, and everything around is just an ornament of antiquity.

3. The color scheme of the shabby chic style is quite bright, it contains dark colors, but more often they are not used in their pure form; they mix, forming strange color combinations and creating a washed-out color effect.

4. Shabby chic windows are best decorated with unpretentious curtains with a floral pattern or heavy curtains in dark colors.

5. At the same time, in the style of shabby chic, there are a lot of things that will help you create this style and a lot that will spoil it for you. Of course, old pieces of furniture brought from the dacha will help, it’s not without reason that designers now rarely throw anything away. Things that are ridiculously aged (with noticeable artificiality) or cheap (not natural wood, leather, stone) can spoil.

Remember, in the past, furniture was treated much more selectively, each was a piece of art by a master, and not a conveyor or a product of a hypermarket. It is unlikely that a built-in wardrobe, albeit with a very skillfully "aged" surface, a spotlight or a suspended ceiling, can claim a place in shabby chic.

History of shabby chic style:

SHEBBI-CHIC - translated from English. shabby - old, worn. Shabby chic partially intersects with the Provencal style in the interior, which appeared in France. In turn, the shabby chic style appeared in America and became popular at the beginning of the 20th century. This style also intersects with country style, denoting some aspects of American rural life and the relationship of man with nature.

Shabby chic is a very young style, born in the late 1980s of the twentieth century. Its author is Rachel Ashwell. She began by decorating old furniture purchased at sales and flea markets, at the beginning - for her own home, for her family.

The vintage style had a great influence on the shabby chic style. Vintage (from the French vintage - long-term wine) is a direction based on a combination of modern and old, and sometimes even antique items in the interior. Shabby chic can be called vintage turned inside out, as shabby chic interior decor suggests a certain protest of excessive luxury.

Despite their similarities, shabby chic, vintage and Provencal style have their own differences. Shabby chic, unlike its counterparts, goes less into country style (a country house with old furniture), although some features are also used in it.

It is difficult to imagine the rapid historical development and architectural monuments of all these styles. They take what has long been, and in its original form, and not created in the likeness. Antiquities will always seduce with their mystery and beauty, therefore, such styles do not and will not have time frames, only objects will change, and not the essence of the style.