Snuggle in comfortable soft furniture. Fresh flowers look beautiful and the soft scent of candles fills the room. A home decorated in the Shabby Chic® style can provide the same sensation for your own home.

Shabby Chic® is no particular style, but rather balances elegant things with old and worn, shiny silver accessories with painted wooden tables, soft throw rugs with rough old lace.

Read about some of the ways you can use a Shabby Chic® decorating style in your home:

• Soft Delicate Colors
  

  Soft white, muted grey, pale pink, and faded green all have a place in a Shabby Chic® interior.

• Tea Stained Fabrics
  

  Collect fabrics from around the house or buy vintage-looking fabrics even if they're new. To give the illusion of age, fabric can be made to look old, worn, faded, and soft by staining them with a brew of tea.  You can change something that's stark white to a soft creamy white.

• Combine Patterns and Colors
  

  Combine stripes, checks, and floral fabrics to achieve a warm and inviting look. Gather yardage or fabrics from yard sales and flea markets. Then choose one color to repeat in almost every fabric, such as a soft green or pale pink.

• White painted furniture
  

  Almost any piece of wooden furniture will fit into a Shabby Chic® interior if it's painted white. Collect pieces from flea markets, garage sales, and the attic. Spray with white paint, sand off the corners and rough it up a little, and ta da!-- you have Shabby Chic® furniture.