Shabby Chic · Dining Room: Mismatched Chairs

A shabby chic vintage dining room. The table is a long old wooden table, the tabletop is unpainted, retaining the wear and marks of the original wood, but the table legs are painted white and distressed at the edges—the different treatments for top and bottom are deliberate. The six chairs are all different: two Gustavian wooden chairs, two iron chairs, one wicker chair, and one armchair with a white slipcover; their only commonality is that they are all painted a similar grayish-white. The table is casually draped with a white linen cloth, set with mismatched white porcelain and tarnished old silver, with a large bunch of white flowers in the center. An old crystal chandelier hangs above. Avoid: using a matching set of dining chairs, painting the tabletop completely white and losing the wood grain, using modern tableware and table settings, arranging the tablecloth perfectly straight and flat.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一間破舊復古風的餐廳。桌子是一張長的舊木桌,桌面沒有漆保留原木的磨損與痕跡,但桌腳漆成白色磨出邊——上下不同處理是刻意的。椅子六張全部不一樣:兩張古斯塔夫式的木椅、兩張鐵藝的、一張藤編的、一張套著白布套的扶手椅;它們的共同點只有都被漆成接近的灰白。桌上鋪著一塊隨意的白亞麻布,擺著不成套的白瓷與失去光澤的舊銀器,中央是一大把白花。上方一盞舊水晶吊燈。避免:使用成套一致的餐椅、把桌面完全漆白失去木色、使用現代的餐具與餐桌布置、把桌布鋪得對齊平整。