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Eclectivo.com is run by shabby chic lovers just like you. We are offering unusual, beautiful pieces for your home. They were created through our love for treasure hunting and transforming these treasures into one-of-a-kind creations. What we really love about this business is that we are recycling and breathing new life into old furniture and making them beautiful and useful again. It takes many hours of tlc to get old, unwanted furniture in saleable condition, but it’s very satisfying to see them transformed. All of our furniture are restored. Every piece of furniture is unique, one, and only. We are sure there will be something to tempt you on our website.

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WHAT IS SHABBY CHIC?

Shabby chic is a form of interior design where furniture and furnishings are either chosen for their age and signs of wear and tear or new items are distressed to achieve the appearance of an antique.
The essence of today’s shabby chic style is vintage and antique furniture with the original aged paint, or painted white (or another soft pastel color) and distressed at the corners by sanding. Antique pieces such as pie safes and jelly cupboards are popular in shabby chic décor. The beauty of shabby chic is that there are no rules, you can’t just go out and buy your way to shabby chic. Shabby chic style is now one of the hottest decorating trends and with good reason. It is versatile, easy and inexpensive. It is a collection of much loved, and often much used, items that have so much more than just a function, they have style and design as well. Shabby Chic combines the new with the old, you are as likely to find a shabby chic item in your grannies front room as you are in the an expensive store, but the style is anything but dowdy: it is fresh, aspirational and timeless.
The style started in Great Britain and evokes the type of decoration found in large country houses where there are worn and faded old chintz sofas and curtains, old paintwork and unassuming ‘good’ taste. The end result of shabby chic is to achieve an elegant overall effect, as opposed to the sentimentally cute Pop-Victorian. Recycling old furniture and fabrics is an important aspect of the look and was especially popular with modern Bohemians and artisans that made up a sidelined counter-culture movement during the 1980s when expensive quality decor became very fashionable with the upper middle classes. The original shabby chic interiors were usually considered in themselves works of art.
The early forms of shabby chic were rather grand but the style has evolved taking inspiration from many forms of decoration. These range from 18th century Swedish painted decoration, the French Chateau the American Shakers where simplicity and plainness was essential. The term was coined by The World of Interiors magazine in the 1980s and became extremely popular in the US in the ’90s with a certain eclectic surge of decorating styles with paints and effects, notably in metropolitan cultural centres on the West Coast of America, such as LA and San Francisco, with heavy influences from Mediterranean cultures such as Provence, Tuscany and Greece.