Shabby chic is no particular style, but it balances out elegant pieces with both old and new combined. If you prefer bold colours then probably this is not for you. Usually soft whites, muted grey and pale pinks, blues and greens are the favourite shades used. People buy new old fashioned looking material and sometimes stain them to give the appearance of age and this they do by using tea! The overall effect is then a pattern that looks like a soft creamy white instead of stark white, that just would not look right.

Often the use of floral, striped and checked fabrics are combined to achieve a warm and inviting look. It is however best to keep the colour background the same, for instance white or cream. Then try to select a colour to repeat in every pattern fabric to get the right effect. Almost any piece of white bedroom furniture will suit a shabby chic interior design. Sometimes you may have a piece which can either be sprayed or painted white then sanded at the corners and roughed up to give the appearance of age.Painting furniture white, completely changes it from dark and heavy to light, fresh and clean.

What completes the look of shabby chic is the appearance of chunky large sink in sofas and chairs that are warm and make you feel right at home. In the bedroom, white or rustic beside tables will finish a Shabby Chic look perfectly

The popularity of white furniture, such as bedroom furniture has increased a lot in recent times. People seem to be turning to the minimalist look and the clean feeling that comes with it. When furnishing our home the choice is endless. White furniture can be found in dining tables and chairs, wardrobes, dressers, bookcases and much more. You can even get white bedside tables now.

You will find that the most commonly used colour in interior design is white. This is so particularly in bathrooms and kitchens where cleaning and very importantly, the preparation of food is carried out. This is primarily due to hygiene and of course it makes sense that dirt shows up significantly on white and surfaces are more readily kept germ free.

They say that this is not really a colour as such, it is in fact a neutral.

It was Sir Isaac Newton experimenting in 1666, using a hole in a window shade that allowed a ray of sunshine into a dark room, where a glass prism was placed in such a position that enabled the light to pass through it. He found that the ray of light was refracted when it passed through the prism and spread a beam of multicoloured light in all the colours of the rainbow which appeared as white on the wall beyond.

Newtons conclusion was that white sunlight was a mixture of different types of light, each one being a single pure colour and that each colour was refracted at different degrees, violet by the most and red by the least.

It was found that white light does in fact contain all the colours within it, they are simply not visible as they are being reflected.

I have seen some wonderful interior designs that are entirely white with just the odd addition of one or maybe two other colours introduced into the design. So don’t dismiss the use of white painted furniture in your decor because white interiors, especially it seems white dining room furniture, tends to have a very calming effect and help you relax and feel at home.