{"id":1302,"date":"2010-12-22T08:14:12","date_gmt":"2010-12-22T13:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hickoryfurniture.blogs.eprevue.net\/?p=1302"},"modified":"2010-12-22T08:14:12","modified_gmt":"2010-12-22T13:14:12","slug":"2011-interior-design-trends-emphasizes-the-past-in-shabby-chic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hickoryfurniture.com\/blog\/2011-interior-design-trends-emphasizes-the-past-in-shabby-chic\/","title":{"rendered":"2011 Interior Design Trends Emphasizes the Past in Shabby Chic"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-meta\">Last Updated Wednesday, December 22, 2010<\/div> <p>With its inspiration from Great Britain\u2019s sprawling country houses and their faded, worn looks though still comfy and inviting feel shabby chic was in vogue starting in the early 1990s with an appropriate \u201cquiet\u201d revival predicted in 2011 with a new emphasis on ancestry, family, and preserving the past as passionately as <a href=\"\/blog\/going-green-with-earth-friendly-interior-design\/\">\u201cgoing green\u201d interior design<\/a> aims to preserve the planet through the use of sustainable and recycled materials in interior design.<\/p>\n<p>To start your shabby chic decorating project with your family past in mind, dig into the attic or closet and find some vintage accessories, furniture that you can breathe a second life into with some extra love and care, and old family photographs as well. If you aren\u2019t fortunate enough to have a treasure trove in your own house, you can conduct your own treasure hunt at flea markets, antique shops, and even on eBay. Shabby chic basically embraces old items with many stories to tell such as aged furnishings, vintage art, and faded fabrics like quilts and curtains. Other items you can incorporate are old lace tablecloths, soothing pastel floral fabrics, wrought-iron headboards and curtain rods, and a splash of color and fragrance using fresh-cut flowers.<\/p>\n<p>Some basics of shabby chic decorating include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Use soft colors like pastels primarily. This means that bold primary colors like red and yellow are out while subtle, soft colors like cream, pale pink, faded greens, and whites are in.<\/li>\n<li>Vintage even tea or coffee stained fabrics are also in. You can do this yourself to new fabrics. You can make new fabric seem faded and worn by staining them with brewed tea.<\/li>\n<li>You can also incorporate a lot of wooded furniture into your shabby chic look by painting them white or off-white. This includes old wooden treasures you find at flea markets, garage sales, and yes, even new stuff you can sand, rough up, paint white, and age. Of course, this process works best on old items you can find around you and won\u2019t cost you a cent.<\/li>\n<li>Shabby chic also gives you the freedom to mix up patterns from plain to stripes to florals. They also combine into a warm, homey aesthetic. However, be sure to repeat at least one color in each pattern to maintain a relaxing uniformity.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>When term \u201cshabby chic\u201d was first used by \u201cThe World of Interiors\u201d magazine in the \u201880s, it quickly struck a chord in nostalgic Americans who wanted a return to less complicated times. Not surprisingly, it won many fans in the big cities like Los Angeles and San Francisco who embraced the relaxed, romantic virtues of shabby chic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Updated Wednesday, December 22, 2010 With its inspiration from Great Britain\u2019s sprawling country houses and their faded, worn looks though still comfy and inviting feel shabby chic was in vogue starting in the early 1990s with an appropriate \u201cquiet\u201d revival predicted in 2011 with a new emphasis on ancestry, family, and preserving the past [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":303,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,68],"tags":[109],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hickoryfurniture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1302"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hickoryfurniture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hickoryfurniture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hickoryfurniture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/303"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hickoryfurniture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hickoryfurniture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hickoryfurniture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hickoryfurniture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hickoryfurniture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1302"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hickoryfurniture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=1302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}