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Is the Shabby Elegance look for you? |
Easy to live with and remarkably
versatile |
So bring out your creativity! |
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If you love to collect mismatched
teacups, vintage lacy linens, soft floral fabrics, painted furniture,
crystal chandeliers, and lots of white accessories, shabby elegance
(shabby chic may be the style for you. Like "comfort food" it seems
to appeal to our "grandmother's house" sense of beauty and belonging. |
It's a study in contrasts between casual and
elegant, fresh and traditional, simple and ornate, plain and patterned,
rumpled and tidy. Shabby elegance is a style that easily merges a variety of
objects into one harmonious whole through the liberal use of white and
pastels.
Many of you were decorating Shabby Elegance
style long before it became so widely popular - some called an eclectic
look. Now it is the hottest than ever, and very easy and inexpensive to
do. You just make it look as though you haven't tried too hard to do it.
You'll soon find shabby elegance one of the most easy-to-live-in and attractive looks
to create.
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Look around your own home, look for
imperfections, and then create your own Shabby elegance look. Slip-cover sofas
and chairs, re-wire old lamps, keep items with cracked paint and old
frames left are gems.
Got a pottery shed? Pull out used ceramic pots and wall fixtures things
you were going to paint....well...good news...no need now, they got the
Shabby elegance look already! Convert items like a old iron wall hanging piece
into a candleholder, leave burnt down candles as an "used" feeling and
look.
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