Shabby chic. With its mixture of old and new, is a style with popularity that shows no signs of waning. Whether you’re looking to incorporate this trend into your own home, or if you’re looking to attract on trend buyers to sell, the below five rules can help you to create a home that always turns heads. Exposed Brickwork Forget

The soft, feminine, beauty of shabby chic will create a dreamy atmosphere in any room. Creating a space in the shabby chic style can give you a sense of peace and calm, which is ideal in the modern, fast living world we live in today. Is it difficult to achieve? No, not if you follow these simple tips. Creating the

And by stories I mean that amazing black and white gallery wall and the washed out blue sofa. A gorgeous apartment with lots of white and other neutral colors. Somehow, a modern shabby chic space? femina.dk 

You may have already seen pieces of this dreamy fairytale cottage, but hey, it is way to dreamy not to share it also.  Sandra, the owner, made her dream come true when she turned a Catskills hunting cabin into the romantic Victorian cottage she had always wanted, using vintage columns, flooring and wavy glass windows, and she did the carpentry

Because today we started with slightly feminine decor, let’s continue in a similar way. How? With this gorgeous crisp white bedroom. Quite girly if you ask me, but interesting the contrast between the space’s aesthetics and the props, sneakers & scooter. Still, a fine example of  an elegant modern white shabby chic bedroom. via housetohome

A really dreamy, in the heart of an old manor,  bedroom for two little ladies. Love this romantic double bedroom, it goes a bit on the shabby chic side also. The striped wallpaper in neutral natural colors compliments  light room and it’s something different that all the girls bedroom around. The only pink here is the soft pink nightstand, with

Shabby chic … what is that? The clue’s in the name, as it so often is. We are talking style over fashion: old over new. It might be tatty but it’s got charm and class, especially after it has been decorated or painted in an irreverent manner.  Shabby chic is also a great way to upcycle and reuse, so not

This beautiful, shabby chic apartment, is the home of  interior stylist, Hilary Robertson, and Alastair McCowan, the chief executive of Chesney’s, the company deals with custom and antique fireplace mantels. So, I can see where the shabby feel of this Brooklyn rentals comes from… via

This gorgeous period Hampshire apartment won Best Apartment and Best Budget Project in PeriodLiving‘s 2011 Reader’s Awards. Now the original house was built in 1870, extended in 1912 and converted into seven apartments in 1987 and total cost of the renovation was about 30 thousands pounds. Well, with that money you can get a decent one bedroom apartment in my town. Still,

It’s been a while since I posted a shabby chic interior and this house is so dreamy… Just pour yourself a glass of white wine,  grab a book and relax on the porch… if not, take the bike for a  ride… via housebeautiful