Beach Chic

What I like most about English beach chic is that it's disordered. Lived in. Purposeful. Mismatched. You won't find a Cape Cod designer cottage type of thing with pristine white couches dressed in the perfect nautical cushions. Maybe the difference is that the English actually are rather shabby round the edges naturally, and Americans sort of have to create designer shabby. Tell you who I loathe...Rachael Asshole, the doyen of US Shabby Chic. Because real expression comes from re-purposing what you have or serendipitously come across, using your own individual style. Organic, natural. It isn't buying a mass produced in China, specifically rusted bird cage online, with a few fairy lights strung over it because it's the must have thing on a hot shabby chic site. OK, rant over. In the spirit of our special relationship, and because half of my family are in fact American, this disordered Brit will include some American cleverness. See if you can guess which are which without first checking the link!

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