shabby chic – The Estella Initiative

For the past few years, possibly more, it has become trendy to decorate for Christmas in a shabby chic style. I always loved shabby chic home decor. When I found this trend, I began to wonder how to buy this style of decor that would fit in with my own. Over the years, I developed some self made rules about what this trend looks like to me. This also helped me decide on what looked good with my already existing decor.

I don’t know of any official rules for this style of decor. So, I decided to write a post about my own tips for when buying this style of Christmas decor. Like with all decorations, there really isn’t any set rules. Still, I hope these five tips help anyone looking for ideas on how to find Christmas decor in a shabby chic style!

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While browsing Dillard’s website to see what is new and trendy in their store, I discovered Dillard’s has new brands for sale in their store. In addition to the brands they already sell, such as Free People, Calvin Klein, Lauren Ralph Lauren, Tommy Hilfiger, and MICHAEL Michael Kors, they added Ted Baker and Shabby Chic. I already knew Dillard’s sells Ted Baker clothes, shoes, accessories, and bedding, but Shabby Chic was new.

I’m a fan of the Shabby Chic home decor style and, even though I know I don’t want my home to be decorated completely in a shabby chic style, I would like to incorporate some shabby chic into my home. I own one of Rachel Ashwell’s books and planned to buy more before I became sidetracked from buying home decor books and focused my money on buying other things. I love the furniture as well as the bedding in the Simply Shabby Chic collaboration collection from Target. But never have I heard of Shabby Chic clothing! Continue reading “Dillard’s Now Sells Shabby Chic Brand Clothing (And I Didn’t Know About It)” →