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What is Shabby Chic you ask? Quite simply, it is an eclectic look of antique floral and stripes, tangled with white and pastel colored furniture and accessories with a distressed look.

Cake stands are one of my favorite shabby chic elements to a dinner table.

Ever wonder how some people seem to achieve luxurious-looking living spaces on a miniscule salary? Read on...

Decorating a Shabby Chic living room can be fun and inspiring. But, most importantly, absolutely beautiful!

Decorate a Shabby Chic living room without the expense. Why pay top retail price to create a Shabby Chic living room when you can use re-purpose naturally-distressed furniture and reclaimed wood?

Thanks to Rachel Ashwell, shabby chic decor has become very popular in recent years. Here are some ideas to get you started on a living room, shabby chic style.

The Shabby Chic style of decorating is warm, romantic and inviting. The nostalgic look of worn furniture painted with many layers of white paint has become increasingly popular in the last few years.

"Shabby chic" is a perfect decor choice to make any living room look elegant, yet comfortable. If you love classic elegance but still want a comfortable cozy living room here are some "shabby chic" living room decor ideas to help you get started.

Details on how to change your living room into shabby chic including materials and where to buy the items.

Shabby Chic is an easy and comfy way of decorating your living room within a decent budget.

From tea-stained to bleached, a starter guide to shabby chic decor. Tips on decorating along with sites, stores and resources for inspiration for shabby chic living rooms.

Shabby chic bathrooms and shabby chic bathroom décor are a huge design trend in modern bathrooms.

Shabby chic Picture Frame Shadow Boxes are a super easy and affordable way to incorporate your love of all things vintage. Creating Shabby Chic Picture Frame Shadow Boxes is an easy project that can be accomplished in one weekend.

This Shabby chic Picture Frame is an easy DIY project that will add a huge designer impact in your home.

Creating Shabby Chic cocktail tray is an easy project that can be accomplished in one weekend.

This Shabby Chic Vintage Jewelry Box is a great hostess gift, vintage craft project, or even a vintage gift kids can make themselves for Mom or Dad.

I love to decorate with vintage items in my home. Over the years I have made quite a few Vintage inspired Halloween crafts that are perfect for decorating your home.

If you are looking for vintage, antique, or retro fabric for quilting, quilt restoration, or crafts, consider shopping online. Here are several websites offering authentic vintage fabrics, and another specializing in vintage reproduction fabrics.

Coming up with great gift ideas for friends and family members is challenging. Collectibles, however, offer an abundance of unique possibilities. Here are vintage gift ideas that gardeners should find appealing.

These simple no sew vintage handkerchief pillowslips are great for an occasional vintage or shabby chic look when you are in that mood.

This Christmas lampshade project is a great way to remake an existing lamp for only a few dollars. This Christmas needlepoint project lends itself well to a shabby chic, vintage, or Victorian Christmas design theme in your home.

A visit to the fabric store will spark your imagination and inspire you. You don't even need to sew.

Better known as Letter Panel Inserts Message Centers , these often plain signs can look too generic for vintage retail shops, coffee chops, and anyone trying to establish a vinatge or shabby chic decor in their business.

Well, shabby chic bathroom décor is a super affordable way to decorate any bathroom large or small! So, hope you like these simple and quick ides for incorporating shabby chic décor in your home bathroom

You can turn any wood frame into a Shabby Chic wood framed can hang from a ribbon.

This simple Shabby Chic French Rose Painted Rug is a great way to really transform an existing jute rug for so little money.

This simple Cabana Stripe Shabby Chic Rug is a great way to really transform your home into a shabby chic oasis for so little money.

Distress your kitchen cabinets to give your house a country, shabby chic look.

A few simple techniques for making antique store treasures into trendy shabby chic pieces.

These shabby chic Easter bunny gift tags are a fun craft that look so expensive and elegant when added to a gift.

This Shabby Chic Picture Frame clock would look great in a little girl's room, a family room, the basement reck room, or even in a game room.

The best part is that since you are painting this Amy Butler Fabric Placemat yourself you can really make it blend in with you exiting home decor for a custom handmade Placemat look!

You can update your metal folding table on a budget to fit almost any home décor setting. These simple steps will also help restore a metal folding table to a better state then it was when brand new!

Whether you're a college student trying to live frugally or a hipster trying to assemble a shabby chic living room, you may find yourself furniture shopping at thrift stores. To make the most of your trip, consider these tips.

There is nothing more feminine and graceful than that of the vintage floral look. Unfortunately, vintage table cloths can not only be pricey but very unpractical. This Shabby Chic inspired painted rose table cloth is inexpensive to create and also washing machine safe.

Having a central "look" to base your project around can help produce a cleaner, more organized finished product. Here is a look at a few popular décor styles to get you started.

What turns an apartment into an atelier? A little je ne sais quoi. For inspiration in chic living, turn to those who invented the word. French style isn't found in Eiffel tower or pink poodle kitsch, but in effortless grace - and on flea-market budgets.

Do you love roses and the old fashioned charm of vintage florals? Would you like to start a business featuring the soft colors of Victorian roses or images of your favorite blossoms? Here are 101 business ideas using the loveliest of flowers - the rose!

love Vintage Screen Window Mesh. It has slightly larger square openings when compared to new screen window mesh.

This Valentine set a modern romantic scene; instead of putting all your roses or flowers in one vases, why not place them in single vases for a spectacular effect. Unassuming bottles are revived with style.

A look at one of the most popular current design styles: Shabby Chic, a style created from found and refurbished objects.

This simple Vintage or Retro Tablecloth lampshade craft project is a great way to remake any old Tablecloth into a new lampshade perfect for a vintage or retro kitchen, family room, or crafting studio.

Crafts are not just your regular Popsicle-stick cabins or paper-bag puppets anymore, although those are classics, and will always be fun to make. This article will get you started making your own crafts.

I just love the beautiful mellow colors in vintage postcards. Best of all you can find them for almost any city in America!

I always come across great remnants of vintage fabric online and at the local flea market. While there is not always enough to make many crafts, your can easily cut the vintage fabric into strips to make this simple vintage placemat!

I come across so many types of Vintage Sheet Music when I am out at yard sales. Vintage Sheet Music is perfect to make into a fun and new lampshade for an existing lamp.

This simple Christmas wreath is great way to display your collection of vintage jewelry. Vintage earrings are perfect for this Christmas wreath, but you can incorporate almost any vintage jewelry you have. Costume jewelry also works great!

Welcome the new life of spring this year by decorating with nostalgic vintage linens. Here are ideas to decorate your home with the sensational, shabby chic look of soft pastels and dainty florals that antique linens provide.

The mirror doubles your flower budget, reflect s sunshine back onto your indoor garden, and adds great appeal to this shabby chic home décor project!

It's important to know what's hot and what's not in home decor, from eco-chic to contemporary to traditional to modern.

Spice up your living space with rich fabrics with three different DIY home-decor projects.

Vintage clothing and Brooklyn go hand in hand. It's no surprise that the discerning folks who love Brooklyn also love to shop at Brooklyn's vintage clothing stores. This guide lists four of the Brooklyn's best Vintage Shops.

I love all things vintage and found this aspect of my life spilling over into ideas for wedding invitations. All of these vintage inspired wedding invitation ideas can be easily accomplished by a beginner.

This retro wire fruit pin is perfect for adding some extra storage and design to a small retro kitchen. You can screw the vintage wire fruit bin into the wall and fill it with anything from fruit to snacks for the kids.

This awesome Vintage Tin Can window treatment is the simplest way to incorporate a vintage design into your home, kitchen, family room, or even a home office. Vintage Tin Can window panels let light in through the holes you poke and cut in them.

This crafty Vintage Tin Can lampshade craft project is a great way to use those great metal cans you get from the grocery store that have the painted on labels.

Ok, I think this simple vintage wood Coke crafted Christmas tree has to be one of my all time favorite vintage inspired crafts. I find these awesome wooden Coke crates all the time at flea markets, yard sales, and those fun flea n tique shops.

love vintage wire baskets. You can really make vintage wire baskets substantial and give them a totally new look using pieces of vintage painted tin.

Any Picture Frame is perfect for this Yellow Shabby Chic Paint Technique. Just be sure to prime it first.

This elegant vintage mirror clock is the ultimate shabby chic and vintage craft you can make at home. This easy to make vintage mirror clock makes a great hostess gift, birthday gift, and even something you can make to decorate your own home.

You can make a simple and fun Christmas wreath using all those leftover gift tags you have each year.

Any Kitchen Cabinet surface is perfect for this Vintage Yellow Paint Technique. Just be sure to prime it first.

Ideas for low cost decor for the home.

you wan though, you can easily make your own birthday table cloth using some vintage fabric and a trip to Kinko's!

Looking for some fun Vintage Craft Videos so you can watch some craft being made instead of just reading about them? Well, here my top 10 favorite vintage craft videos posted on AC, hope you like them!!

Feminine and flirty details are very chic for décor accents in Spring 2008. This vintage lavender candleholder is very simple to make, and adds a definite amount of Shabby Chic style to any room.

This simple faux silver paint treatment will allow you to transform an ordinary Plate Charger into an antique silver treasure that is well suited for vintage décor, shabby chic home décor, and even modern home decor.

Crafts that appeal to older adults take into consideration factors such as the crafter's eyesight and manual dexterity.

Kitchen decor plays an important part in the overall attractiveness of your home. If you would like to create a unique room using kitchen art, pictures, or crafts, look upward! Home decorating of kitchen soffits can provide the look and you are after.

There are so many items that could be used to add a new joie de vive' to a tired old sitting room or a dingy kitchen.

This simple Vintage Milk Paint canvas floor mat is a great way to really transform your home into a shabby chic oasis for so little money. You can replace existing rugs with this simple homemade Vintage Milk Paint rug.

If you love to decorate in a vintage style, retro styles, or even a shabby chic home decor, then you should check my five favorite decorating videos.

This simple faux silver paint treatment will allow you to transform an ordinary Lamp Base into an antique silver treasure that is well suited for vintage décor, shabby chic home décor, and even modern home decor.

I come across so many types of Vintage Wall Paper when I am out at yard sales, antique stores, and flea markets. Vintage Wall Paper is perfect to make into a fun and new lampshade for an existing lamp.

Romantic vintage weddings are a fabulous opportunity to try something a little fresh and out of the ordinary for your guests.

Whether you like the old-fashioned look or want to take decorating with lace into the 21st century, read on to find out to add a touch of old world romance with modern flair in the public areas of your home.

On my quest ot make as many crafts form my vintage fabric, which in clued vintage Feedsack fabric, I came up with these super cute retro birthday hats!

This simple vintage craft project is made from vintage door knobs, skeleton keys, wood plaques, and a little elbow grease.

Vintage ceiling tiles make awesome decorating projects in any room of the house, but especially the bathroom.

These Vintage Fabric Paper Dolls are easy to make and best of No Sew!

Do you need a great gift idea for your friends or family? Create beautiful lasting heirlooms from old vintage quilts.

You can use those great vintage ribbons you come across at flea markets to make super cool retro looking candle votives.

Decorating is not about spending a lot of money, it is about using your creativity to create a comfortable space.

Whether you are looking for the ever popular my Butler fabric or other fun retro inspired fabrics, and then hit up Etsy and some of their best fabric stores to find what you need.

Do you own a special piece of antique china or a partial set of old dinnerware? Vintage dishes and glassware make unique home decor accents or focal points. Here are ideas to get you started decorating with old china.

This simple Sweater lampshade craft project is a great way to remake any old lampshade into a new whimsical lampshade perfect for a vintage or retro kitchen, family room, or crafting studio.

Spring is the time to decorate, but you don't have to spend a lot of money. Be artistic and chic by decorating with items from the thrift store.

This simple Vintage or Country Chicken Wire lampshade craft project is a great way to remake any old lampshade into a new lampshade perfect for a vintage or country kitchen, family room, or crafting studio.

If you wan the kids to participate in this lampshade needle point craft then take a trip to your local arts and craft store. Pick one of the many beginner and kids friendly needlepoint patterns.

Don't wanna hit the beach with the kids for spring break? Take a package deal and see Yosemite for a good price!

The author reflects back on life's lessons that lead her from near homelessness to becoming an independent business woman, all through shopping at thrift stores, then selling online. She shares stories and adventures, along with tips that have never been revealed before.

I come across so many retro placemats when I am out at yard sales. They woven and wicker retro placemats are perfect to make into a fun and new lampshade for an existing lamp.

Whether you are a beginning sewer or an experienced seamstress or just like to dabble in sewing crafts and ideas, these sewing blogs are some of the best on the net. They each offer something unique and worthwhile.

Shabby chic paint techniques are a super easy and affordable way to update those outdated wood Office Desks.

Shabby chic Wall Shelves are a super easy and affordable way to a small or outdated kitchen.

Shabby chic office chairs are the perfect addition to any home office. If you love vintage home décor, beach home décor, or shabby chic home décor, then you will love this office desk chair remodel project.