I had a friend who asked me how we were settling into our house. I said something about having a good amount of sitting space in our living room now because we have 2 couches and 2 chairs. She then asked me what kind of decor I had in there. I kind of laughed and said, “shabby”. She thought about it a little and assumed it was a certain style of decorating. I laughed again. That’s when I told her that my furniture was all stuff handed off to us by other people who don’t want it. I think all of it is from the 70’s. We have a couch with bed, burnt orange plaid color, we have two chairs, avocado green, and we have a three piece corner couch, kind of a tan with burgandy undertones (hard to explain.) We are getting rid of the corner couch though. It just isn’t very comfortable and the kittens thought part of it was a good litter box when they were just learning all that stuff. Instead, we’ll be getting another plaid couch. There you go. Shabby decor.
Hey, 70’s is coming back, didn’t ya know??
Clean is clean. That’s all that matters anyway
She thought you meant you decorated in shabby chic decor. Hardly — she should know shabby chic is lightly-color fabrics, roses, etc.
Your decor style is RETRO!
Someday we’ll have matching furniture, but for now especially with the little kids, I feel okay with what we have.
I totally identify. We have “shabby” decor too. The only two items in our house that we purchased new are our bed and our entertainment center, both purchase with money people gave us for wedding gifts over 9 years ago! Everything else is something that was either given to us or that we purchased second hand. I don’t really mind this, because I like things simple, and I never have really worried about what was in style. However, it does drive some of my friends totally nuts. They come to visit me and tell me about good sales on furniture they have seen, how cute my kitchen would look done in a certain theme, etc… I figure I do good to keep it clean and tidy. Maybe I’ll decorate when I get old and retire or something.