Shabby chic furniture is a great option to redecorate your home if you have a tight budget. Besides purchasing new items for your home, you can create a comfy feeling by using used vintage pieces.

French-style and English cottage-style pieces are great to create that chic and antique look for your interior décor, blending together worn and new pieces to create a home that is comfortable, soft and elegant. By installing some carefully selected items of furniture and accessories, you can create an ambiance full of welcoming warmth and charisma.

Affordable

The wonderful thing about chic furniture is that you can change your home completely without spending too much money. Consider buying a new sofa set as a starting point, from there, change some details around it. Add some great accessories like old china, family pictures in silver frames, an oval mirror and lots of soft cushions.

Generally you should use light pastel colors to get the vintage look, but if you paint one or two walls in dark red or deep blue for example, it will dramatically change the atmosphere and add a chic touch to the room.

Mixed items

Now you’ve got an overall idea about shabby chic furniture, you could look around in your attic or basement. There might be some great stuff to use; like an old mirror, cabinet or vases. As long as you don’t use heavy colors, you can paint old furniture and give it a new look.

If you have a dining table in the kitchen for example, you could take 4 mismatching chairs and turn them into elegant pieces by sanding them, applying a pale base coat (e.g. soft white, ivory or pale blue-green) and a crackle glaze.

Seal the chairs and the table with varnish and for the finishing touch you could rub gold wax onto edges and on places where natural wear normally occurs. This way, you’ve created a unique dining table set; cheap and chic!

The essence of chic furniture is a charming, elegant and timeless chic, breathing an atmosphere of history and life. Putting your heart and creative soul into the decoration of your home will add to the feeling that it is really loved!