All New Shabby Chic Thread!

Mely

lilmisskitkat wrote: »

Does everyone follow the shabby chic look throughout their homes or is it limited to one or two rooms? What other 'looks' do people like?

Mine is mainly in the kitchen, with bits in DD's room and the hallway (or at least it will be when its decorated).

Kate xx

Hi Kate... i have followed the shabby chic look throughout my house whilst going for a country look too with some things (we live in the country,so it suits the house)...perhaps its country chic?

tiff

Brilliant news Lir, looking forward to some chicing from you lol

Lovely nest of tables Bibbity, I would love to do the wallpaper thing with my MIL's lloyd loom bedside table.

I call my kind of thing vintage style. I like shopping in charity shops and buying second hand furniture and doing it up but dont really do the floral stuff. I am doing it throughout the house although might have to give my teenage son's room a miss!

Kandipandi

Fab tables bibbity- we used to have these in red leather when I was a kid! That blog is beautiful that was linked to , I want to live in her house.
LIR - congratulations on the house, It was most certainly our vibes that did it

agatha_misty

Hello
I have been looking at this thread for a few weeks now and wanted to post and say Wow !
Amazing creations and makes on here - very inspiring, so much so that I picked up a chest of drawers on ebay and I have been working on a revamp. Its taken me a while as the stripping and sanding was hard work, i did use the Nitromors stripper that someone mentioned but even that seemed to struggle with the layers of varnish :rotfl:. I am now at the stage of the 3rd coat of eggshell and to protect it I was thinking of using a satin varnish - would this make it hardwearing?
Thanks

newmee

Remember my very first shabby chic project a few weeks back when I joined y'all? The £10 table. Well I'm happy to say I've completed it!

Photo follows in post below

newmee

Ok I've just opened a photobucket account so here is a photo of the table and the piano which I have started to 'dress'.

http://s955.photobucket.com/albums/ae36/newmee_bucket/Shabby%20Chic/

goodgodthatonesevenbigger

wow guys well done on your furnature renovations all looking good, you've all done so much since i was last on here.

I won my first bit of furnature off ebay today and im so excited..... a old wooden school desk that im gonna paint up for my daughters bedroom. i've also bought a camera so i can get some photos up on here of them

Ellidee

Wow - they look fab newmee - well done ! xx

Kevie192

I had a look at chef ware but it looks like they dont do all of the storage jars etc. you can get in cornishware.

Any more ideas??

jcr16

newmee thats amazing, doesn't look like same table. when i first saw the original photos i never imagined the wood would sand up so beautiful.