All New Shabby Chic Thread!

jcr16

loving the transformation in your kitchen. i find dark kitchen's make you feel depressed , but a light airy kitchen makes for a much happier cook and you feel inspired and like you want to create.

My kitchen is the cream shaker style so very light indeed and gives you the llusion of more space , even tho their isn't any.

liloandstitch

I though so too - really beautifully put together
Lilo

meanmarie

EagerLearner....love what you have done to your cupboards...mine are cherry but would love to change them to something lighter at some stage....unfortunately my living room needs more doing to it than anywhere else so it will have to come first.

Marie

Kaz2904

Thriftkitten, I love your bedroom. It looks very peacefull. What a lovely haven.
Eagerlearner, your kitchen is coming on leaps and bounds. Do you think you will keep the cupboards long term? I ask because they look like they are solid wood and if the kitchen layout works for you (or even would work with changing the cupboards around) then it could save you a fortune. You would also be able to just repaint them whenever you fancied a change.
I like the colour and if you mix it with some pastel pinks, greens, yellows and blues then you will build up a nice shabby chic kitchen. I like the paint colour too. I've been toying with the idea of painting my kitchen a green like that.

hermum

Thriftkitten wrote: »

Hi, I am on the Shabby Chic lovers bandwagon and slowly getting there, it's very hard loving all things white and pristine with 2 school age children, however I have now worked out photobucket and can show you my almost finished Divine sanctuary... I mean bedroom, I just have to sort the floor( I always new when we moved into the house 6 months ago that I wanted to save money by not carpeting, Now I know why.
Paint and wax I think! Anyway incase anyone wants to take a look, here is my room and a few bits of project furniture that I shabbied up, I like to think of it as " From scabby to Shabby!!! I haven't managed to find anything with Queen Anne legs yet, but here's to hoping!
Oh and Bargain of the day has to be Ikea Ektorp 3 seater sofa covers "Baby Pink", offered in the local paper for £20 un opened Yippeeeee just need the sofa now Hahahaha!!! I did have a 3+2 suite in the Ektorp range but lost everything in the lower part of the old house last year due to severe flooding in the town!! But have been saving and will have them once more but with these delightful covers!
http://s638.photobucket.com/albums/uu102/slynkie_2009/Scabby%20and%20Bleak%20To%20Shabby%20Chic/
I hope this link works as I'm a newbie at this!
OOps I have just realised that all can see other albums, Oh well, no naughties, and you can see the old black and white Ikea sofas and my 2 crazy pugs along with Sabrinna the cat who thinks she is a pug too!!!

Love it. I just love looking at everyone's pics. Your furniture is gorgeous. On your smaller unit is that a vase, it's very beautiful.
What part of Cornwall are you? I'm in Plymouth.
I keep buying stuff, too much to actually know where to start.
Ebay is bad, bad, bad.
Charity shops at the moment are even badder. New word for the dictionary.
I spent loads yesterday in cs on table & tray cloths. They are my new obsession.

midnightraven3

i feel a bit of a fraud being here now:(

but i am so enjoying looking and hearing about all your lovlies
i'm indulging by proxy:D

hermum

EagerLearner wrote: »

Hi everyone,
I am loving the inspiration on here such great ideas - thought I would share my latest piccies:
http://savingsnow.blogspot.com/
I will update more once it's finished - right now MrEL is 'unsure' about the colour on the walls after I have spent quite some time doing it... the colour was previously blood red in an exterior wall paint finish! The way I see it this is much improved...
Still 5 kitchen cabinet doors to do... exhausted... will be worth it... when I finally finish!
Got my door handles from ebay as ex-MFI stock - so cute and they add extra light I think (north facing kitchen)!

Love it, £120 for a new kitchen, so much nicer than buying an off the shelf one.
For everyone who's husbands say, ooh no, not shabby chic. That would have to be a good selling point for getting what you want in a kitchen.

newgirly

Hi, I have just been looking at some of your lovely kitchens and wondered if anyone could help me, I have a b&q off the shelf white gloss kitchen which I have had for about 8 years, do you think it would take well to being painted , I was thinking a pale creamy lemon colour. Or should I leave it white and just paint the walls instead? (the walls are currently royal blue, it seemed a good idea at the time!) thanks:)

midnightraven3

how many times have i said that

seemed like a good idea at the time:D

the only prep i would use on high gloss doors is ESP
it is made as a primer for tiles, glass & other highly polished surfaces (melamine etc)

esmy

Thriftkitten your bedroom is beautiful! I particularly love the bedside tables - did you paint these? How did you get that finish? Just what I'm wanting to do to an old and horrible chest of drawers.