What style would you say my kitchen/dining room is?

[HoldTheGlam]

Hiya!

We've just had our dining part of the kitchen done. Looks fab, and I'm over the moon with it.

My DP insists that it's a vintage, shabby chic look( the rest of our home is similar, except for me releasing my new profound Essex Godess in our glam bedroom). I'm disagreeing with DP.. I know you probably can't comment on all of the house because I haven't added pictures, but it is the same more or less.

I dislike the 'distressed' look of vintage/shabby chic (shabby shit is what my Mum calls it ), yet apparently this is also considered to fit that style? My MIL is the queen of vintage/shabby chic and her house has lots of distressed items and overall looks aged, where's I can't see the similarity between the two.

Am I right in saying our house has too much of a modern take/polished look to be considered shabby chic or vintage?

Sorry if this is a confusing post lol, and I'm not knocking off anyone's choices of style, shabby chic is lovely too

to be fair she did say it was the dining room end of the kitchen, so maybe she hasn't done the rest? (although the weird placing of cupboards...) - and also she said she'd left the plastic on the chairs until the covers arrived.

very strange though

I know... I was trying to be nice.

It's odd if it's a show room though. A simple 'I'm thinking of buying this kitchen, what style would you say it was?' would have sufficed.

snoop - I know. So I'm going to be the one to say it. I think we were all meant to say it was totes amaze balls and ask where it was from awaits banning

It's very 'Cheshire'.

Its not Shaker - that's supposed to be very clean lines so the fancy bits at the bottom, columns and curved backs of the chairs don't match.

I thought I was the only one who thought it doesn't look like a real room! It's very confusing from the photos.

I don't really think it is any style. I find this obsession a bit weird really with having to fit a style. Personally I find it a bit old fashioned but not cool enough to be vintage ... But if you like it why does it matter which box it fits in?

Nina I am Cheshire and don't know anyone with a kitchen like this!

It's a farmhouse style kitchen.

Not to my taste, but if we all liked the same thing how boring life would be.

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I don't think it's spam. Just weird!

tHis is really confusing.

It's the dining part of your kitchen yes? So a sort of dining room. Ok, there is an island/breakfast bar thing. And loads and loads of random free standing cupboards dotted around the edges, some of which face the sides of others thus rendering them useless?

The style of the units would probably be sold as 'country' or 'farmhouse' but it's a sort of pastiche of both. The style of the chairs is umm, I don't think there is a word for it but it isn't the same as above.

Also there is a very plastic looking laminate floor which I would describe as modern, rather than country, or farmhouse or anything else.

I like the tabletop. I'm sorry, the rest is a bit, well, pretentious as in trying to be something it isn't, but being made of wood is always a good thing, and I have seen much less nice kitchens.

I think the whole 'shabby chic' trend has a lot to answer for. But I do like your table top.

It's either a showroom or the op just bought all the dining room/kitchen furniture in that range and has just squeezed it all in. Odd.

What I mean is if you want modern, then ditch the turned wood decorative stuff and carved kick boards. Then it will look modern.

At the moment it looks like it is trying desperately to look vintage and country style but it's obviously very new and that creates a bit of a design dichotomy, or conflict I suppose.

A true farmhouse kitchen is, as someone posted earlier, full of Welsh dressers and freestanding cupboards, with a big table.

However, shabby chic is all about found objects, and upcycling. Lots of pretty mismatched china and chairs pulled out of skips, then repainted, and paint effects and stencilling.

So, this is neither one nor the other.

It is a modern kitchen that is trying to give the impression of a farmhouse kitchen, so "farmhouse style".

As I posted earlier, I don't like it, but that shouldn't stop the OP, or anyone else for that matter, from having a kitchen like that. The OP probably wouldn't like my kitchen, either!

Great thread OP!!

Can I hijack? What style does everyone think my kitchen is? Skeptics please note - my cupboards open!

Hi, let me clear some things up!

The whole of the one side of my kitchen/diner isn't finished yet, the walls aren't even done lol. These furniture pieces are moving into the living room until that's sorted. We're currently staying at my MILs until it's sorted, won't take long because people within our family are working on it.

I haven't placed them as they would be placed either.

That is amazingly retro Greenham!

Your brave! Doing your flooring before your walls

I would describe this a shaker or farmhouse style, definately NOT shabby chic as that usually involves an element of distressing in paintwork.

I have no clue about the proceedings and details, I'm not too fab at physically setting up a foundation. Interior design is my thing

I think you're wasted in interior design, OP.

Sales and marketing is much more your thing!

Surely if you were into interior design you wouldn't need to post on a forum asking about the style of your kitchen?

LJ! So cynical! I suppose my horse isn't real either?

Beautiful horse, is that you riding it? So fabulous darling!

Gosh - do you live in a barn or similar? You must have very wide doors if you can move that unit out to your living room.

Be careful moving stuff that's all unwrapped. it can mark horribly.