Kim Galindo was shabby chic when shabby chic wasn’t cool. Or rather, she was shabby chic when the whole world wasn’t pulling old tables out of curbside trash heaps and arming themselves with tools designed to wear away at perfect paint jobs.

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          Galindo is a longtime follower of Rachel Ashwell, a California woman generally credited coining the term shabby chic in the 1980s and furthering it as an interior design philosophy. And the style isn’t all about chipped paint surfaces, old doors and rusted-out metal pieces, though that’s what some of the current fascination would have you believe.

 

          “It’s using flea market finds, mixed with antiques and comfy, lived-in furniture,” Galindo says. “Mine is a lot of pastels “