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

I'm just gonna come right out and say it,

GreenHam I don't believe that's your horse and what's more I don't believe that's you riding it. Sorry but there it is. MNHQ delete me if you must, I can sit on my hands no longer.

Noel how rude!

Hurtful.

Modern country I would say. It's lovely.

You're 18 and this is the kitchen you chose? My goodness, it's really not what I would think a teenager would choose.

18? Where does it say she's 18? I would have chosen a similar kitchen at 18, but certainly wouldn't have been able to afford it!!!!

Perhaps she said it on another thread.

Does that make this a TAAT? Because isn't that, um, not allowed?

Have reported you, Noel. You clearly have ishoos.

Forgive me if I'm wrong, but bringing my age into things comes across as quite patronising. I didn't pay for it, my partner did.

I guess you're correct. No, I can't afford it.

And as for being 'good with interior design', it was a joke. Mind you, I do like decorating nothing serious, I just like all things that are easy on the eye.

I think it will compliment your ugg boots op

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Sad to hear you can't afford it

Had it been a really good price I reckon you would have got lots of leads off the back of it.

Better luck next time

Plastic coverings on all the chairs too! Is it a new kitchen?
I'd say it was 'country classic' or 'traditional'.

Give up, you've been rumbled!

Purely from a design history point of view, the best word to describe the kitchen would be, IMHO, 'eclectic'.

Earlier posters have commented on all these features, but, pulling the comments together (and loving the Barbie stuff!):

• The heavy dark oiled-wood wood surfaces are late 20th cent or very early 21st century modern/industrial chic.

-The clean-cut basic shape of the units - and the fact that they are designed to be built-in, and appear to be of standard modular proportions (to fit in with appliances) - is 20th cent mass-production 'hygienic modern', inspired by anything from 1960s/ 1970s onwards. The fact that they are in wood and painted cream means that they also are influenced by 1980s/1990s idealised country kitchen fashions. -The stuck-on half-table legs on the island unit (which have a purely decorative function) are also reminiscent of the romantic reproduction country styles popular in the 1980s/ 1990s. They are based on Victorian originals, which might have been found on small pine /french-polished tables or bedroom wash-stands, but those would have been actual table legs, not decoration. -The curved kick boards at the base of the units are a similar sort of modern decorative gesture towards the Victorian era. Most Victorian kitchen furniture did not have them.

• The laminate flooring and matching plinth below the island unit are modern, with an urban/industrial-chic vibe.
• The chairs are a mixture of art-nouveau bentwood, Bauhaus/industrial tubes and curves, and 1950s kitchen. The upholstered seats refer back to Victorian dining chairs (because of the integral padding) mingled with Scandinavian 20th cent styles (because of the slight overhang of the seat).

Dahlia!

My horse is real !!!

Sorry - wrote all the above before the OP 'fessed up.

It's like posh ikea.

Looks like a close up of a dolls house kitchen

Can I just say that I agree with noel and, no, I'm not a sock puppet before you all accuse me.

Green - I've got my eye on you. Personally, I think this is the start of a huge ruse to get your horse nominated for the MN Secret Santa. I will be watching out for any begging threads

Do you have any idea what it costs to feed my horse, Gobbolin? What do you think he lives on? Thin air???

Well, let me just say what everyone else is thinking - why did you spend all that money on that very expensive fitted kitchen and those pink wellies when you had to feed your horse?

Try getting a mumsnet chicken. You should be able to get at least 273 horse meals out of it!

Why the Jeff would you lie about something like this

This thread is bizarre.

Eh? What's the op 'fessed up to? And what's 'physically setting up a foundation?'
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