Okay, okay! No more posting about blue and white china after today, I promise. After a round of flea markets this weekend, my pile of collected china could no longer be ignored as it threatened to topple at any minute.
But before I could find a home for the pieces I'd already found, I needed to do a bit of rethinking my space.
Here's the wall across from my bed before the shift occurred. Cute, but so busy and cluttered and I never
did get the spacing right on the gallery wall thing.
Trying to find a better arrangement, I moved my beloved empire dresser off to the right to let some more light in and brought in a fireplace mantle (acid green, yuck!) to center at the foot of my bed.
Once the mantle was painted to match the trim in my bedroom, I drilled holes and screwed in into place in the wall.
I bought 13 plate hangers from my local hardware store to hang my 13 plates above the mantle.
Attaching the hanger to the plate was so easy and the hanging hardware was included, too. I swear to you, I was a bit intimidated but it was a snap.
I worked out the general outline on paper first and just eyeballed placement, having to rehang some of the more wonky ones.
Some of the plates are from the 1890's, some are from the 1970's, some are chipped, some aren't. Some cost 99 cents and some were $25 and you'd be surprised which is which.
In the beginning I was a little fussy about only buying beautiful old, old, old plates but in the end it didn't matter, they all look wonderful together. Yay, hopefully I can refocus my energy and money away from china now!
