The "shabby chic" style in interior is luxury and grace on which time has left the marks. The romantic and expressive style is designed to emphasize former chic and commitment to family traditions for what in interior the ancient or artificially made old pieces of furniture and finishing materials are used.
Registration of interior in style "shabby" means use of the stylish, qualitative and even smart things bearing traces of long-term use: faded, rubbed, having defects.
The eclecticism making impression that furnishings were bought during different eras by several generations of family is allowed and welcomed. But at the same time it is very important to follow number of the rules characteristic of this style:
Finishing materials
At selection of color gamma for finishing and dressing of the room preference needs to be given to soft tones: pastel pink, soft white, cream, ivory, pale blue.
Walls can be plastered and whitewashed or painted by soft paint with imitation of cracks. Wall-paper can have the small not geometrical drawing of soft coloring – as if burned out in the sun.
The ceiling has to look lost the whiteness – coloring in color of ivory for this purpose is ideal. Sometimes fans of this style add imitation of the cracked and a little peeled off paint. The stucco molding with angels, buds of roses and gilded ornament is ideal for ornament.
Floors the "shabby chic" style recognizes only the wooden, having scrapes and other signs of old age of covering. Use of artificially made old parquet, and in kitchen or in the bathroom – tile with chips and cracks is allowed.
Furniture
The ideal decision for the bedroom is the bed with graceful metal backs or executed from massive tree with difficult carved pattern.
All other furniture has to be not less magnificent and grandiose: decorated with thread, painting, gilding. The most preferable color of furniture – white.
For decoration of furniture covers, covers, capes, throw pillows – surely muffled tones, with ruches, flounces embroidered with roses and figures of angels can be used.
Curtains
Portyerny fabric surely has to be the road making impression. Monophonic light fabric is draped in difficult folds, decorated with intricate lambrequins, brushes, satin ribbons.
Any traces of time on curtains - light attrition, sites which have burned out in the sun, a little shabby brushes, etc. are welcomed.
Interior parts
Separate elements of interior will add and will complete the formation of "shabby chic" style: picture in shabby frame, ancient mirror with slightly grown dull surface, the darkened candelabrums, vintage hours, porcelain dolls, shabby caskets, lamps and so forth.
Inadmissible elements of style
Despite huge opportunities, style "shabby" has number of restrictions: use of bright, saturated shades is inadmissible; it is important to avoid zoning of premises by means of color transitions; it is not recommended to use the geometrical drawing in finishing and jewelry.
Not to mix chic with congenial Provence, at registration of interior it is necessary to refuse use of the dried bunches of herbs and flowers.