Scratched surfaces, light pastel colors, floral patterns and a romantic look - this is the shabby chic style, which emphasizes originality rather than perfection. If you want to furnish your apartment in a classic yet stylish way, this furnishing style is the right choice. In today's article we present a few elegant ideas for a beautiful piece of furniture - the wall shelf in a shabby chic look. Suitable for kitchens, living rooms, bedrooms and bathrooms, these shelves can conjure up a very special flair in your home and at the same time provide practical furnishings.
Elegant wall shelf in a shabby look
Furnishing your apartment in shabby style is not a difficult or expensive task, as this style emphasizes used pieces of furniture. Something nice from the flea market or given as a gift from your grandmother is perfectly fine and can be perfectrepresent the style. Homemade pieces such as a wall shelf made of picture frames also support the popular look.
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Vintage shelves are perfect for country house style apartments. The design with antique picture frames looks rustic and emphasizes the decoration on the shelves. In combination with pastel colors or an elegant silver look, the beautiful shelf gets the popular shabby look.
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The shabby shelf can be beautifully decorated with vases of dried flowers, as the floral motifs are an inseparable part of this furnishing style. This not only creates an elegant decoration in the room, but also provides additional storage space for storing various items.
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If you don't want to install the shelf directly into the wall, you can just hammer a nail into the wall and let the shelf hang on it. For this purpose, you need to screw two eye screws with wooden threads onto the wooden frame and hang the wall shelf on the nails using a string.
Hanging shelf with a vintage look
The creative shelf can also be used in the kitchen. It can be hung next to cooking utensils and used as a kitchen shelf. If you want to always have the most frequently used spices and ingredients at hand, you can place them on the hanging shelf.
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You can also attach a larger kitchen shelf with a shabby look to an empty wall and use it to store dishes. Such a design is particularly suitable for country-style kitchens that need a romantic touch.
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Whether in the kitchen or in the living room - a wall shelf made of picture frames looks wonderful as a decoration for the wall. Depending on its size, you can use it for books, souvenirs and photos with friends and family.
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You can decorate an entire wall in the living room with several shelves made of picture frames. If you want to furnish everything in the popular style, you should go for light colors such as white, turquoise, pink, yellow or sky blue. Murals with motifs are also fine, but should be adapted to the interior.
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To ensure that your bathroom always looks organized, you should have enough storage space. Elegant base cabinets with drawers and shelves, as well as beautiful shelves for the wall, are perfect for this.
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You can build a wall shelf for the bathroom yourself from a large picture frame and a few boards and tidy up the room in style. You can design the shelves as large and wide as you like, depending on your personal needs.
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You can convert antique picture frames with ornaments into a perfect shabby wall shelf. You can either find such valuable photo frames at the flea market or ask relatives. Cheap antique picture frames can also occasionally be found on the Internet.
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Don't you want to buy a boring bookshelf for an empty wall, but rather build something practical yourself? We present this beautiful idea of homemade bookshelves from old picture frames that are not boring at all.
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You can choose the number, size and design of the bookshelves individually. Picture frames in darker colors are used here, which are rather atypical for the style, but the scratched surface and the vintage look are there.
Instructions
If you want to make a small bookcase out of picture frames yourself, you will need the following: a picture frame, wooden boards, wood glue, nails and paint of your choice, although spray paint would also be fine.
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First, you should build a frame out of the boards that is slightly smaller than the picture frame. Then glue the picture frame onto the box frame with wood glue and paint it as desired. For a real shabby style wall shelf, you can paint the picture frame in a light color such as light blue or pink and decorate it with flowers or floral motifs.
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You can also install the wall shelf in the bedroom. It can be designed as an elegant bedside table that attaches to the wall and is perfect for books or a cell phone.
Bigger shelfout ofBuild your own picture frames and wooden strips
We have already shown how a small shelf can be built from old picture frames. However, if you need more storage space in the form of shelves, then we recommend this larger version of the wall shelf. The materials are the same, although they should be a little larger and a few thinner boards are needed for the various shelves.
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You can use the finished wall shelf to store various items. It is perfect for children's orbedroom, as well as for the bathroom. Just make sure the shelf is firmly attached to the wall. Also, perhaps avoid placing anything too heavy on it to ensure safety.
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Do you attach great importance to nail care and nail design, but find it difficult to find the nail polish you want among all the others? With a shabby chic style wall shelf you can organize your nail polishes visibly and always find the one you need. Get inspired with these nail polish shelf ideas!
