Shabby Chic Thread?

sillyvixen

my dining room furniture is revammped 1970,s formica from my grandads house. all i have done is cover the chairs with fabric that matches the living room sofas. my house is quite open plan downstairs and while it is very nuteral throughout - the darker furniture in the dining room works with the lighter furniture in the dining room as the the chairs match the sofas - very usefull if you have people round and need to use dining room chairs in the living room. it cost me 12 pounds to cover the chairs - what would it have cost to buy a contempary dining table, chairs and storage unit....i refuse to spend money on psudeo aged new furniture.

triage999

WOW I go to work leaving two posts on my thread and come back to tonnes lol

I love shabby chic and Haribo Junkies kitchen is what put me on track to create a shabby chic thread!

I too love shaker style/New England, I did originally go for Cath Kidston florals but I am swaying more to lots of neutrals with accesories from her and Laura Ashley.

I currently subscribe to Country Homes and Interiors mags as there are loads of ideas in there we have just done our hall with wood paneling all the way around half way up walls painted in crisp white with a dado, top half of wall is papered in buttermilk.

I bought a lot of furniture from Ikea to get me started as Scandanavian styles are very similar.

This year I wrapped all my pressies in cheap brown paper and tied with chequered gingham ribbon in red topped with a fresh holly leaf, the ribbon I purchased from a charity shop, they looked very effective!

I love Farrow and Ball painted furniture and want a large dresser in the kitchen eventually to house all my Emma Bridgewater Pottery and other bits of kitchenalia that I have collected.

Mappygirl

charleybabes wrote: »

what about a pale shabby chic blue beneath the dado rail and an antique cream above it.. would look lovely wiht the wood floor .. add lots of stripped pine furniture and lace bits!!

Thanks charley, wouldn't have thought of that myself but it could work quite well - already some pine furniture (mirror/tv table etc) We also have a firplace in dinning room, we ripped out old ages ago so could put lots natuarl wood in there to!

rosieben

For anyone handy with a needle and thread, another book worth looking at is Home Made Vintage: Over 40 Quick and Easy Sewing Projects by Christina Strutt. Some really beautiful projects in there.

Loving this thread!

FunkyFairy

Love cath kidson only trouble is hubby wont let me do the whole house in the style :-(

Have loved looking at the were the os magic happens thread again. I can not belive how much my kitchen has changed in a year.

Ellidee

Ooh I love this look too ! One of my faves mags Country Homes & Interiors and I do treat myself to it sometimes.

Ellidee

Just had a look at Haribo's kitchen isn't it fab ? The units and worktops are almost exactly like mine but her kitchen is much tidier and stylish. Sigh

Mollymop5

Oh what a fab thread.I'm so pleased I've found it.I will be catching up and checking out the photos for the next few mins i'm sure :T

mary43

Our lounge is pine panelling (well, old pine doors fixed onto the wall to be honest.........lol) and dark green paint on the other walls, rust colour throws on the mismatch of sofa/arm chairs.............walls of full of old tools, old cafe sign from the one I used to own years ago, lamps made out of old stone jars that came from grans, for OH's records..........pile of old bricks each end....plank of old pine on the top and his albums slide underneath - the rest of his collection are in an old dresser base that I 'distress' painted.

Kitchen is as big as the lounge so doubles up as 'family room' if needed. In one half there's a small drk. green chesterfield I had given me with rust check throw on it and an arm chair with a loose cover on in drk. green...............cupboard/dresser (also drk.green) for glasses, few cookery books and other stuff then the 6ft pine table and chairs (if it could talk it could tell a tale.....it's seen tears, laughter, all sorts.................lol) then we've got a leisure range oven (also drk. green) and the cupboards I colour washed some years back in whats now a yucky creamy colour and needs livening up. Walls are a very pale turqoise/green.

My word........just reading that it sounds awful !!!! It's not that bad, honest. We both just love green.......................lol

Can't bake bread but got a little basket on the kitchen table with some 'fake' bread rolls in it..........surprising the number of people who have picked them up to eat them....................lol
Like those little rug type mats you find in second hand shops - normalls have one of those on the table, top of a blanket box........well, anywhere really.

Love the idea of 'something for nothing' (well almost nothing)

ceridwen

....personally I refuse pointblank to buy 2 kitchens for one house...the fitted one I got when I bought the house is noticeably worse for wear.....so I'm gonna be going even more "shabby", less "chic" at some point and just ripping out the worst bit and replacing it with old secondhand furniture repainted or something similar.