Plate walls are simple to make and cost next to nothing - they are also no longer limited to kitchen or living room walls...
But I don't have any plates!
Find them at yard sales, thrift shops, or online.
I don't know where to start!
To coordinate plates with your room, pick a color from your room's decor - your rug or curtain fabric, and go from there. Or, you might want to contrast plates with your wall color. Check out this collection of wall displays and be inspired!
But I don't have any plates!
Find them at yard sales, thrift shops, or online.
I don't know where to start!
To coordinate plates with your room, pick a color from your room's decor - your rug or curtain fabric, and go from there. Or, you might want to contrast plates with your wall color. Check out this collection of wall displays and be inspired!
Personalize your plates: Decoupage photos on plates to use as photo frames
These dainty rose floral plates are perfect for this shabby desk and chair
Quaint display
Love: Plates with words. via Bees Knees
This dining room wall is covered with bright plates
Keeping it simple
This plate display was wrapped around the corner and to the next wall
Kitchen plate wall
Lovely spring mantle display via Martha Stewart
Plate wall display coordinated with surrounding furnishings completes the look
Mix whimsical plates with traditional plates for an eclectic, Bohemian look
These framed fruit plates have an elegant, uniform look - even with their variety of colors and patterns.
Framed plates
via BHG
This clever crafter spray painted thrift store plates to create a rainbow of color.
Plates displayed in a narrow space
These plates and trays, tightly displayed - are all tied together with a theme
Another tight/overlapping display. via BHG
This is plate wallpaper!
Stark white plates create contrast in this bedroom display
Unique or unusual plates add interest
Plates in a line look organized and are different from the displays you commonly see
Another example of a linear wall arrangement
Black and white
Cute powder room display
Instead of plates, tureen lids are displayed in this small bath
Interesting formation of different sizes and shapes
A display of platters via BHG magazine
This massive outdoor plate wall display makes a statement
Contrast
These multicolored plates work well with the brightly painted piano
Decoupage words on plates. I am going to do this with some favorite poems and song lyrics.
Another example of images decoupaged on plates
Painted house numbers on an old platter
Outdoor plate wall
How to hang plates:
You don't need any type of fancy-schmancy plate hanger mechanisms! You don't want to use those anyway. They are irritating! All you need is some E6000 and large paper clips. Perfect!
Photo via in my own style
What do you think?
Are you going to dish it out?
