Hi, I’m Nora… I’m a hopeless romantic and a shabby chic lover since the early 2010s.
Yes, my home is mostly decorated in this style. And yes, my family loves it too.
Some of you might say I’m not being creative and as an interior designer, I should be favoring something more innovative. Don’t get me wrong, I love all styles, but this is just who I am.
And that’s exactly what you should do with your home. Decorate it the way you are!
So, if you’re a shabby chic lover like I am, you’re gonna love these 7 shabby chic living room ideas as inspo for your next redecoration project!
1. The Softness Of Beige
The base of every shabby chic living room is normally beige or any other creamy shade. Beige is such a soft, muted color that allows you to do pretty much anything you want. Teal pillows? You got it! Pink details on the shelf? Of course!
Anything, even keeping it simple and in the same tone.
I don’t like it when people refer to it as sad beige. Beige is soft and its softness is unmatchable!
This simple living room has a lot of natural light coming from those big French windows, another feature of the shabby chic style. When I think of such rooms, I always imagine bright spaces with light furniture, soft details, and a vibe of tranquility that spreads all over the place.
A room like this one is a perfect example of airiness and subtle elegance that comes with the shabby chic style. And, it’s a great idea if you’re just looking into the style and experimenting. No major changes to your current home are necessary.
Give shabby chic a chance and I guarantee your next DIY project at home would be an even more shabbier and even more chic room.
2. The Lovely Chaos
The lovely chaos.
That’s the best way to describe the shabby chic style. Everything’s so nice, neat, and pretty, and yet everything’s mismatched, a bit chaotic, and even eclectic.
Shabby chic also features eclectic pieces of furniture and details, a lot like the ones in this photo.
While the furniture is quite standard, the details in this room are not. They’re distinctive and special, a bit gothic too!
The most interesting piece in the room has to be the decorative light installation on the right with warm lights and purplish lace with goth vibes.
Adding flowers in the same color palette and some other trinkets around the room turned the simple white space into a vibrant corner with shabby vibes like no other before.
Next time someone says he’s got a shabby chic living room, don’t go straight to white and fluffy pillows and blush pink accents. Remember, eclectic can be the solution too.
3. A Girl’s Paradise
Not every girl is a girly girl who loves pink, but most shabby chic lovers love this color.
Pink needs its justice back. It’s so much more than a baby color or a color reserved for kids only. Just take a look and appreciate how beautiful this color looks in space! In my opinion, pink is the color of love, not just red.
The soft pink sofa is the ideal one for a shabby chic room, not just because of the color, but also because of the design. It’s sprinkled with luxury and comfort, and it’s an absolute stunner.
The entire room is, in fact, a stunning shabby chic living room idea and I would recommend it to everyone looking for that charming chic. One major element along with a bunch of interesting, colorful details made a difference and created a living room worthy of every admiration.
This is a lovely little pink bubble you want to get in and never get out!
4. The Ultimate Color Combination
I once had a client who wanted a shabby chic room without any pink. She wanted blue, just blue everywhere. But, when I showed her some pictures of blue with other colors, she fell in love with the blue and pink ones.
It looks much like the room here, with dominant elements in blue and details in pink.
Needless to say, her mind was changed. Yours will be too if you give blue and pink a chance. No, it’s not a color combo reserved for gender reveals only. Shabby chic living rooms actually love blue and pink, separately and together too!
When you combine them with airy and lacey curtains and white furniture, the pink and blue look so sophisticated.
This is one of my favorite shabby chic living room ideas here. It’s not just the lovely setting that makes me like it so much. It’s the positive, bubbling energy I get from looking at the photo.
Although it’s got plenty of things and colors going on in here, this living room is actually quite soothing and relaxing.
5. The Colorful Comfiness
Shabby chic wants bright, pastel colors. It wants muted neutrals, a solid base to enhance with details such as colorful pillows, coffee tables, trinkets on them, and so on.
I love browsing through shabby chic living room ideas because I always find another new detail for my own living room. Yes, my living room is still in shabby chic and we’re loving it. It’s a mashup of a bunch of other things too, but that’s a whole new subject.
Particularly in this living room, I’m loving the airy curtains instead of colorful drapery. They make the room more approachable and homey. And they go so well with colorful coffee tables!
What a happy living room this is!
Shabby chic gives me exactly those vibes: happy vibes! It’s a way of life when you sit down with a cup of tea, and biscuits next to you, and you admire the little things that make you happy.
6. An Elegant Approach
Open-concept living rooms are something I absolutely adore! However, I stumbled upon some open-concept apartments, especially in my early years when I was focusing on designing small places.
It’s not unusual to see a living room with a bed in the back. Some people just don’t have the luxury to have separate rooms, and sleeping on the couch is not an option.
I honestly believe this combination works, especially since everything’s so elegant with a dose of shabby chic. Flowers and shabby chic interiors are best friends, so it’s never too much having them in a room!
This blush pink sofa is a masterpiece and goes so well with the rest of the room.
However, my favorite piece here isn’t the sofa or the floral arrangement. It’s the intricate piece in the back, the wooden artwork with a lacey design, and the wooden dressing curtain. I think I’m in love!
7. The Blush Haven
Pink is my all-time favorite color when designing a shabby chic living room. Of course, white is right there too, hand in hand with this blush beauty.
Some might say shabby chic is for girly only, but I disagree. Yes, you can mostly see such interior ideas with the gentler gender, but no one says your family can’t have such a living room if that’s what you love.
The shabby chic style is everlasting, always so homey and inviting. So what if it features blush pink curtains or fluffy rugs? Comfort is comfort, and that’s exactly what this shabby chic living room idea offers.
Besides the standard furniture in white, of course, I love the addition of the rocking chair. Not only does it look great in space, but it’s one of the most comfortable pieces of furniture you’ll ever try on!
Final Touches
Pastels, shades of beige, earthy colors, natural materials, bright rooms, arched windows, flowers, plants… Those are all basic features of the shabby chic style.
I hope at least one of these 7 shabby chic living room ideas has inspired you to turn your living room into a charming retreat.
Make the hopeless romantic inside you happy and indulge in the style that’s sprinkled with romance, showered with uniqueness, and wrapped in an aesthetic feel all with a pink bow and everything.