The perfect method for recycling is Shabby Chic: be inspired by many enchanting ideas

Shabby chic is one of the most used and widespread styles of furniture and interior design today. The style requires that furniture, furnishings and accessories are chosen for their worn and aged look - which can be authentic or artificially created. The shabby style gives rooms a touch of romanticism and brightness, with a great preference for pastel tones and the weathering (decapè) technique. The latter technique, in particular, provides for the fake (premature) peeling of paint and varnish, (generally clear versions), which allow the surface underneath to show through. It is a deliberately unkempt but elegant effect. All these features make shabby chic the perfect style for recycling and creative reuse of many objects.

Take a look at how many ideas can be brought to life by recycling fruit crates, jars, old suitcases, and more:

Decorating glass jars usually used for preserves and turning them into pen holders, brush holders, and similar, to put on your desk will be very simple to do. Ribbons, fabric, trimmings in the pastel colors of the shabby chic style and a lot of fantasy will be enough for this project.

The same can be done to create very unique spice jars to be placed in the kitchen.

A must for the creative use of the shabby chic style is certainly the use of fruit crates that are painted in white (or some other light shade) and which can become almost anything. For example, you can create a beautiful living room cabinet.

The same type of box, left in its natural wood color and with motifs applied to it (perhaps by using stencils), can become a cute container for cushions, blankets or toys to decorate the living room area or the children's bedrooms.

Decorating the crates with paint and stencils and using them as drawers to insert into a shelf unit is an excellent idea for a perfect shabby chic style decoration.

Or, if you want to create a piece of furniture, entirely from fruit crates, you can paint them and join them together in any order you wish. Depending on how many you use and how you arrange them, you can get different kinds of furniture. Making one that is not too tall could be an alternative method for decorating the bathroom.

Using old drawers painted in light colors and hung on the wall is the perfect technique to obtain wonderful shelves or bookcases in a shabby chic style.

An unusual but great idea can be the recycling of an old headboard or footboard of the bed using the decapè (weathering) technique and hanging it on a kitchen wall. With the addition of special hooks, it can become a truly elegant cup and saucer holder.

With jars and boxes of all kinds you can create a thousand different objects. From flower pots, to shelves, clothes hangers and keys holders of all shapes and sizes. There is really no limit to what can be done.

And finally, doesn't it seem like a wonderful idea to transform an old suitcase into a useful and beautiful coffee table?

Come on lovers of the shabby chic style, go wild with your projects!