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I’m popping in to show you how to use a plate collection in your home decor and the easiest way I found to hang a plate collection.
With many of our friends and family located out of town, having a welcoming room for our house guests is a happy necessity. But I’m a wee bit embarrassed to admit that our guest room has been somewhat neglected for the past year.
Last summer I repainted the room and updated the bedding, but never got around to decorating it as had planned. The bed skirt is a red toile and I had it in my mind that a red transferware plate wall would be pretty cool.
Both the toile and the transferware are fairly traditional decorating styles, but I’m rather an un-traditional decorating style gal, so I wanted to ‘un-traditionalize’ the room as I continued to decorate it. One way I hoped to tone down the traditional was by making my plate wall asymmetrical and wandering.
I started gathering red transferware from a variety of local antique stores and from eBay. I wasn’t concerned that my plates were in pristine collection; in fact, a few nicks here and there would add to the character of the wall.
I accumulated 14 plates of different shapes and they’ve been sitting in a stack in the guest room for the last 6 months. One of the perks of blogging is that I’m motivated to get my projects done, and my recently completed plate collection wall is one of the ‘to-do’s’ that has finally been moved to ‘done’.
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But here’s the rub. Are you familiar with the children’s book, “If You Give a Mouse a Cookie?” It was one of my kids’ all-time favorite books when they were younger.
The gist is this: if you give a mouse a cookie, he’ll surely want a glass of milk. Once you give him the milk, he’ll need a straw, then a napkin, then a nap, and so on and so on.
So this is now my “if you hang a plate wall, then you’ll need to fix up the lamp” room. Once you fix up the lamp, you’ll need to get some pretty pillows for the bed. Once you get the pretty pillows, you ought to get one of those bedside carafes with a tumbler on top. You can see where this is going, right?
Well, Kate’s off to school, so I’ll have all this time on my hands…right? In any event, my project queue is growing, which is fine with me.
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Karen
August 20, 2015 at 6:29 amBeautiful! I love the pattern!
Taping paper plates to the wall to work out the arrangement is genius! My house was built in the 50’s so when putting a nail in the wall, you need to be sure where you want it to go!
This is just great!
Thanks for sharing at Something to Talk About!
Karen
lynn
August 20, 2015 at 3:29 pmThanks Karen! I’m pretty tickled with it as well. I love it when something works out as planned! See you next week.
Lynn
Ann C
August 24, 2015 at 1:05 pmI love the fact you didn’t keep them symmetrical, which would have looked great but this will start a conversation! My first impression was it looked like the Big Dipper star formation which of course makes me,think of nighttime, and peaceful sleep.
lynn
August 25, 2015 at 6:13 amHi Ann, I always lean asymmetrically..just in my genes! Wow, love the Big Dipper observation…think I’ll adopt it and share it with my guests. A little subliminal suggestion.
Michelle James
August 31, 2015 at 10:12 pmI have been working on a guest room as well. It is fun and you are completely correct that one project definitely leads to another. Your plate wall turned out fabulous and I know the rest of the room will too.! I finally got more pillows and some new bedding and now need an new update. LOL! Thanks for sharing at #HomeMattersParty
lynn
September 1, 2015 at 6:32 amHi Michelle…working on my pillows now! Will pop over to visit your guest room today! Thanks for stopping by
Stacey
November 9, 2015 at 8:24 pmHi Lynn. Just landed on your blog tonight and I’m enjoying clicking around. I had to comment here for sure because I also have a love for red and white transferware. Isn’t it the prettiest? I really like the way you spread it across the wall.
lynn
November 10, 2015 at 5:54 amGood Morning Stacey, thanks for spending a little time with me yesterday! I love it that you browsed around the guest room. I popped over to your house and felt right at home in your dining room with all of your beautiful transferware and toile. It is a classic combination!
Thanks for visiting and hope to catch up with you again soon!
Lynn
Mary Vitullo
December 31, 2015 at 7:21 amGreat tutorial. Thanks for sharing. I love the asymmetric placement.
lynn
January 1, 2016 at 7:30 pmHi Mary, I’m so glad you found it useful and I’m an assymetrical gal as well. Happy plate hanging!
Lynn
lynn
January 1, 2016 at 7:37 pmHi Mary, thanks for stopping by. I’m so glad you found this useful…are you doing your plate hanging soon? If so, have fun.
Happy New Year, Lynn