Shabby Chic Style Furniture

Shabby Chic Distressed

Decorating with Shabby Chic Style Furniture can add instant charm and a simple cottage feel.
Shabby furniture can be purchased new or you can search for a charming vintage treasure to add into your home.

Flea Market Style

You can find great pieces of shabby chic style furniture at flea markets, garage and tag sales, and thrift shops. When looking for furniture, try to look at the piece with new eyes.

Imagine the furniture piece with a fresh coat of paint and your loving touches added. Once you start painting pieces of furniture you will have a lot fun, and you will see how easy it can be! You may have pieces around your house that you can already start with. Maybe you have some worn and tired out piece that needs a new life in your home.

Shabby Chic Painted Furniture

Shabby Chic painted Furniture should mostly be painted, distressed, and have a time-worn appearance. You will want to include pieces that are painted in whites and soft pastels. You won't see much dark or natural wood furniture with Shabby Chic Style furniture.

Take notice of this white table and mirror. When furniture is painted it makes the piece become architectural, and all the details and lines show up.

If you don't have old furniture, you can use newer pieces and distress them or give them a paint treatment to appear as if they are old. Take a dresser or hutch and put old style hardware on it. This can really make a piece have vintage appeal.



Look around your house and see if any of your furniture can be transformed into Shabby Chic style with a can of paint. Wicker is a great furniture to find and fix up with spray paint. What a cheap and easy makeover!

Shabby Chic Furniture Treatments

Crackle Finish: will give your furniture an aged look. You can go to your local craft and hardware stores (anywhere that sells decorative paint supplies) and but a kit for painting this finish on your furniture. It is a easy two step process.
Distressed Finish: is easy to accomplish. You will want to paint your piece of furniture first and then sand down the edges to give it the appearance of being worn over time. You can use a small hand sander, or pieces of sand paper and small emery boards work well for hard to reach places.
White Washed: finish is exactly as it sounds. You will be putting a wash on your wood. There are various ways to accomplish this technique. You may want to simply water down your paint slightly, to give it your piece of furniture a wash. I would only recommend this is you are starting with unfinished wood.

There is a product called Gesso. It can be purchased at craft and hobby supply stores. It will give the appearance you see here on this garden ornament. It is very easy to apply.

Start hunting down those flea market style treasures and fixing them up. You will see how easy and fun it can be to achieve this Shabby Chic Look!

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