Shabby Chic Thread?

vivw_2

kisto wrote: »

I have been "collecting" all the shabby chic links that have been posted on this thread and adding them to my bookmarks (along with some others I've discovered). So I thought it would be useful to list them here in a sort of "mega index".

Shabby Chic Blogs

• Adventures at Kitty's Cottage
• Bibbity Bob
• Buttercup & Roses
• Chez Fifi
• Country Heart and Home
• Domestic Bliss
• Dottie Angel
• Down To Earth
• Fredsworld
• Homespun Living
• Kittythimble
• Nostalgia at the Stonehouse
• Plump Pudding
• Posy
• Pretty Practicals
• Print & Pattern
• Shabby Homemaking
• Shabby Roses Cottage
• So Sylvie
• Sophie Honeysuckle's English D!cor!
• Summer by the sea
• Ted and Agnes
• The teapot guy?
• The Yvestown Blog
• Vintage Heaven
• Vintage Pleasure
• White Country

Shabby Chic Shopping

• All The Trimmings
• Bells of Suffolk
• Boxwood
• Buttonberry
• Caroline Zoob
• Cath Kidston
• Cinnamon Haven Country Store
• Coast and Country Interiors
• Country Cream
• Country Gingham
• Cox & Cox
• Davlins Interiors
• Decorative Country Living
• Dotcom gift shop
• Farrow & Ball Paint
• Franksy Kitchenware
• Murrells & Lane
• Nostalgia at the Stonehouse
• Nostalgic Chalkboards
• Oh So Vintage
• Pretty Practicals
• Prim n Proper
• Rooby Tuesday
• Prim and Proper rustic country crafts
• Shabby Chic Shop
• Shabby Chic Fabric
• Shabby Chic Rose Interiors
• Shabby Chic Signs
• Sommer Wood Designs
• Southwest Pine
• Vintage Lifestyle
• Willow and Stone
  
• Windrush Valley

Inspiration

• Country Living Magazine
• Recycle a Planter into a Shabby Chic treasure
• Shabby Chic Scrapbooking
• Interview with Rachel Ashwell
• Inside Rachel Ashwells house
• Painting Shabby Chic furniture
• MSE - Old-Style Interior Design Thread
• HGTV - Shabby Chic Design Style

:j Happy Shabby Chicing! :j

If you notice any omissions / mistakes or if you'd like me to add a link pm me and I'll happily update the post!

Thanks for that very useful list. I also have a blog that is following my life and also I hope the gradual change in my life and my home. Its called Pooh's Abode

kisto

vivw wrote: »

Thanks for that very useful list. I also have a blog that is following my life and also I hope the gradual change in my life and my home. Its called Pooh's Abode

Added now

I'm going back through the thread now and I'm finding tons of links I've missed so adding them as I go along

stas4949

aaahhhh thanks Kisto.... what a fantastic job :T

Am going full steam ahead lol never realised I had so much stuff (well rubbish) in the house..... trouble is everyone knows I like to recycle/re-use/create and my house is full to the brim with other peoples cast offs. I'm going to be really brutal and get rid once and for all!!!!!!

poppett

kisto wrote: »

I have been "collecting" all the shabby chic links that have been posted on this thread and adding them to my bookmarks (along with some others I've discovered). So I thought it would be useful to list them here in a sort of "mega index".

:j Happy Shabby Chicing! :j

If you notice any omissions / mistakes or if you'd like me to add a link pm me and I'll happily update the post!

OMG:eek: now I'm never going to get anything done! There are times when I have wanted to look at blogs but couldn't remember which page of this thread it's on but now thanks to you I can go straight to them. I WILL be blaming you when hubby comes home and there's no tea ready for him:rotfl:

Ellidee

:T Kisto thankyou so much for all your hard work that list is brilliant :T

nomoney

I was going to post attach pics of my dining table/chairs and sideboard to see if anyone thinks i dare attempt something shabby chic on them but i dont know how and it says 'you may not post attachments'!

luxor4t

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

first of all i really do need to thank triage999 for starting this thread.. as to be honest i really did need a boot up the backside.. or shall i say the inspiration to get going.... i know i have read other posts etc.. but this one really did hit a nerve..

what ever the reason... all your photos of yuor lovely kitchens and other rooms in your houses have made me do my house...

I agree wholeheartedly. I have been "stuck" at home through ill health since September and was so fed up with looking at furniture in rooms I just did not like. I realised I had a house that did not say much about me / us other than we were too busy to care much about our surroundings.

There is nothing actually wrong with most of our furniture, it is not broken or unusable, it more or less matches in style, but it is too familiar and the rooms need pulling together: I put most of our "clutter" (= ornaments etc) away to make dusting easy after a big op about 6 years ago, and they still have not surfaced!

I have been reading the thread and enjoying the photos of REAL houses - thank you for sharing! :A - and browsing the sites: THANK YOU Kisto! :T .

I decided what I liked,and gradually I have started to put some heart back into our home.

I loved the retro enamelware, and already have a pink kettle and toaster (quite by accident) in my too bland creamy yellow kitchen. By adding some pink rose fabric tea cosy, mixer cover and storage bags(made from 99p Buyology table mats), blue, pink and green enamel storage tins and a cream/ pink spotty table cloth from Dunelm Mill pvc fabric the room is alive. Friends have noticed the change, and somebody even asked if we had had a new kitchen! Its cost about £60 so far , but the biggest expense was a big lavender blue enamel bin with "detergent" printed on the side, that holds my big washing powder & fabric conditioner, £12.99 in TKMaxx .

I am typing with painty fingers because I have started to work on the bedroom furniture. None of it matches in style, shape or colour, we have ugly pine, fake oak, a gingery 50s varnish. OH used to say it did not matter because we only slept there and we could always turn the light off... I think he meant to be reassuring! :rolleyes:

I am F&Bing the bedside tables, then will work my way round the LLoyd Loom storage box (currently green), the 50s Parker Knoll armchairs and the shortened dinner trolley (somebody called it a dumb waiter?) that I use as a sidetable. I chose Matchstick as I think it will be strong enough to cover the fake oak, but still be light and clean. If it is a success I might persuade OH that we should paint the IKEA chest too, it is the only piece of 'proper shop' furniture in the room, the rest was carboot or small ads, when we got married in the mid 80s thrift was not cool, but we were broke.

I am waiting for the frst coat to dry now - I seem to be good at making it look distressed (= always was bad at painting evenly!) - but I am pleased by the effect. :j . I love this thread!

icandream

Thank you Kisto, that is incredibly helpful. I spent ages trying to find Vintagepleasure's blog, yesterday, for starters!

Vintagepleasure: thank you.

All: Is it easy to post a pic within your thread? I found complicated instructions, but failed to do it: do I have to register with another site and upload my photos and supply a link? Some of you clever people seem to post pics that appear in your message, other equally clever people post links to their pics and I seem to be the only total eejit around who doesn't understand and has limited computer savvy . I would so like to show you all a before and after pic of my mirror, as it was so inspired by all of you. x

kisto

nomoney wrote: »

I was going to post attach pics of my dining table/chairs and sideboard to see if anyone thinks i dare attempt something shabby chic on them but i dont know how and it says 'you may not post attachments'!

nomoney, upload your photo to http://imageshack.us/ first.
On Imageshack....Use the browse button to find the image on your pc, tick the resize box if required (I normally choose the 640 x 480 option). Then press the 'host it' button. You will the be taken to a page with various link options, depending where you want to dispaly the photo - for these forums i normally select the link that has " Hotlink for forums (1)" beside it. Then copy the code in the box and simply paste it in your post.

icandream

luxor4t wrote: »

and the shortened dinner trolley (somebody called it a dumb waiter?) that I use as a sidetable.

please please please please please do this next and post a pic: I really want inspiration now for doing mine, since cooltrikerchick mentioned hers. But I just don't know what to do or how it could look