How to Recreate French Shabby Chic Style in Your Home

One of the current trends in home decoration is that of the French style "shabby chic" look. This style combines elements of French country house style with elegant design to reproduce a sense of romanticism into the home. But where does one part with decorating their house - it`s not wish your local furniture store will trade such products.

To make the shabby chic style, you have to attend to independent retailers in place to source some of the French style furniture you will want to grow your plain English home into 1960s French wonderland.

Storage

Wardrobes, shelving and dressers can be sourced in a place of colors and styles. One of the most favoured colours is blank as this evokes a classical sense of French chic. Valbonne wardrobes and Chateau armoires are popular choices for clothes storage while chteau chest of boxers and dressers make ideal storage for nik-naks and household ornaments.

Beds

One of the most chic and luxurious item you can adorn your house with for the French style effect is a French reproduction bed. Back Moulin Rouge style carved beds, a spot of the palace of Versailles with a gold effect bed or elegant French country style Rattan beds are all available. Ultimately, it depends on what view of French culture you are sounding to fire and remember - match the bed to the surrounding and the environment to the bed. A bed that looks right enough for Louis XVI is leaving to feel particularly out of sorts amongst cheap beech effect chipboard furniture.

Sofas

French style Sofas can generally add one of two effects to a room - either a pinch of elegant formality as might be ground in the waiting room of a stately home or a rustic and relaxed feel as might be ground in a French Gite. Sofas can be gold effect with toile fabric or carved chteau sofas in white with wicker backing.

Chairs

Along with sofas, it is crucial to make the right occasional chairs to go with your desks, tables and dressing tables. There are a place of styles available but some of the more popular are Versailles style gold, white and black chairs with (or without) toile fabric upholstery.

Lighting

A broad diversity of chandeliers, lamps and lampshades can be purchased to congratulate the furniture in the room. Chandeliers range from the reasonably restrained to the thoroughly ostentatious with colors ranging from clear, to negro to gold effect. Lamps and lampshades offer more of a boudoir / moulin rouge style effect to a way and add ambiance to a way with their lighting.

Mirrors

Finally, to polish off transformation of your house into a view from a Alexander Dumas novel, add a reproduction style mirror to the room. Mirrors are great decoration pieces as they can light up an otherwise dull or badly lit room and also make an issue of place to room that may seem pokey and small. For a front room, consider a classically styled over mantle mirror and for a bedroom a kind of ornate wall mirrors, dressing table mirrors and mirrored armoires are available to brighten up your boudoir. Mirrors come in the low chain of colors as with furniture and range from the understated to the thoroughly ornate but all are refined and fashionable in their own way.

Hopefully, the above suggestions will make you some ideas as to how to translate your house into a French palace without having the budget of a monarch behind you. All the above items are available from retailers both on the net and on the high street. So go forward and add a feeling of Gallic elegance to your abode.