If we compare the image of our grandparents' chicken coop that many of us still keep in our memory from childhood, with those we present in this article, we are left quite astonished ... But are we talking about the same object?A little house for our chickens?To see these shabby chic style chicken coops some doubts might come, and instead we are exactly talking about "chicken coops";and if those of our grandparents were often much closer to DIY chicken coops with recycled material, these are decidedly more trandy and chic, almost a sort of real house fully furnished, with those light pastel shades that squeeze a lot of the eye to the "shabby" style.As you will see from the photos, some of these shabby chic chicken coops are really "exaggerated", in the sense that they are perhaps placed, for many of us more accustomed to the traditional wooden chicken coop, a little too far from the "rustic" aesthetic taste ”We are used to.But expanding your vision never hurts and maybe, in the end, some interesting little ideas also come out to beautify the house of our nocks, especially the more domestic ones, who have their own residence in the garden.🙂When we talk about shabby chic style we mean a current of design in which the interiors of the house and the furniture are made and chosen for their "appearance" of old and used, very often, in fact, made "artfully" and not authentic (which otherwise would be antiques).This current of design, which we could say referring to a "scruffy, studied and tasteful", was born in Great Britain as a re-enactment of the decorations, sofas, curtains and paintings of the typical English country villas and then, from the 80s of the last century, literally explode in the United States, but also combining influences from the Swedish decorative arts of the eighteenth century and from the interior design of the rooms of the Châteaux of the Loire (France).In America, the shabby chic style finds fertile ground, and spreads quickly, especially among the bourgeois class, who love quality and innovative craftsmanship.The atmosphere that a shabby chic furniture aims to create - with its predominant white, the light pastel colors in the outline (pink, green and light blue), the warmth of wood and the sense of time (romantic) given by the objects - it is certainly very soft and relaxing, of tranquility and well-being.It is perhaps precisely for this aspect that it also goes well with the world of hens;many people who write to us or who comment on our posts or articles often point out how relaxing it is to just watch their chickens happily scratching around the lawn.Perhaps it is precisely on this “lowest common denominator” that the “world of hens” and the “shabby chic world” really find a point of communion.Obviously the shabby chic style chicken coops, as well as elegant, must however include all those spaces and functions that all the hens in the world need to live well;therefore: nice soft nests in which laying hens can lay their eggs in peace (to be used later in delicious recipes), perches, troughs and feeders ... And as you will see almost none of these chicken coops lack anything for the welfare of the animals and indeed, even the individual accessories have been carefully designed to offer a complete shabby chic context, truly first-rate!Indeed, in some cases, creating a "perfect" shabby chic style chicken coop, welcoming almost like a real house, could be an excellent stratagem to implement to bring even the most skeptical ones closer to the poultry world and to the domestic breeding of a few laying hens also in urban gardens.Try to submit to your most dubious neighbors a shabby chic chicken coop with three beautiful hens of the Cocincina, Padovana or Moroseta breed, and challenge them not to agree to keep them!Indeed, we are sure that if, moreover, you gradually give them some fresh eggs, they will soon have a nice chicken coop too!🙂And now we leave you in the company of a nice roundup of photos of shabby chic chicken coops!Happy breeding everyone and… HEN LONG!And what do you think of these shabby chic style chicken coops?Have you ever seen them similar here with us?Did they give you any ideas that you would like to replicate in your chicken coop as well?Tell us in the comments below!Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment.