How to make any dining chair perfect for the shabby chic kitchen

If you’re like many avid home cooks and bakers, you probably have an eye for making a homely and practical kitchen. With all the equipment you need but also the perfect aesthetic to compliment your skills and your home.

From farmhouse style cabinets with wooden countertops to modern style décor with lighting from Neon Mama – there are many different styles to choose from. For those looking for a unique design that does not eat too many holes in your pocket, then the shabby chic kitchen is one of the most popular styles in interior design today.

Shabby chic is all about upcycling vintage items, which makes for great décor. However, you don’t want to ruin the aesthetic by bringing in cheap dining chairs that don’t work with the rest of your décor, especially if you have recently given your kitchen a complete remodel, maybe from the likes of Rittenhouse Home. At the same time, you don’t want to put used vintage chairs in your kitchen, especially if children will be using them. Older chairs just can’t offer the same guarantee of stability and safety.

Having a place to sit while you’re waiting on water to boil or an oven timer to go off allows you to be comfortable while staying in the kitchen to monitor your delectable dishes. A dining chair also provides height for kitchen helpers both big and small. When combined with a booster seat that fits into the chair, children of all ages can help in the kitchen. So it’s not like we can just leave chairs out of the equation when it comes to equipping your kitchen.

Buying new dining chairs in the shabby chic style is not a good idea as it can cost a pretty penny. Instead, look for cheaper and simpler options that can be altered to meet the needs and aesthetic of the room. Remember, a big aspect of shabby chic is upcycling old and well-loved items.

Online furniture stores have large clearance sections in which you can get an inexpensive but new dining chair that will work in your kitchen. With luck, you can find a shabby chic dining chair you love in the clearance section of an online furniture store or, at the very least, you can browse their homepage to get a bit of inspiration and see what a particular store can offer.

Even if you’re not that lucky, you can still buy from the clearance section and turn it into the perfect kitchen chair after it arrives at your door. Rather than limiting your search to shabby chic dining chairs, do a search for wooden dining room chairs without upholstery. You can then take these chairs and make them perfect for your shabby chic kitchen.

There are a lot of creative ways you can decorate the simple dining chairs when they arrive, many of them adaptable to seasons and occasions. With a plain wooden dining chair, you can make tie-on seat cushions in any pattern or color you choose. To give it that shabby chic flair, add some lace to the edges of the cushions. These can easily be removed and washed, and will not be expensive to make, so you can have several sets for different occasions.

Another idea is to get cushioned dining chairs with luxury-level comfort for a steal on clearance, then cover it with a purchased or homemade chair cover. Again, this gives you the ability to change the chairs with the seasons and other changes in décor, while preventing any dining chair from looking out of place in your kitchen.

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Kelly Tate

Kelly is a full-time supermum, caring for two kids and a hardworking husband. A cook, a cleaner, a carer and all round hard worker, striving for the perfect family life (with a few bumps along the way!) Eternally honest and sometimes brutally forward, no topics are off limits with Kelly.