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A Collector's Dining Room

lolakimono — Sun, 30 Jul 2017 20:11:47 GMT

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KathyM23 — Sun, 30 Jul 2017 20:15:36 GMT

Boy, I used to collect plates too, but that is over the top! In taking a close look, it seems that so many of the plates look similar, I wonder if it is a collection of different plates or just a display of her china set.

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KathyM23 — Sun, 30 Jul 2017 20:16:20 GMT

By the way I really like the chairs.

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De Anna — Sun, 30 Jul 2017 20:47:45 GMT

This is why I quit collecting plates!

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RedTop — Sun, 30 Jul 2017 20:53:43 GMT

The thought of collecting anything to that degree is a major turnoff to me.

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CAMOGIRL — Sun, 30 Jul 2017 21:45:18 GMT

"I think I need just one more piece...".

(HA - and I thought I was bad with jewelry! 😀)

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Kachina624 — Sun, 30 Jul 2017 21:46:47 GMT

My parents once had friends whose china service consisted of complete place settings but all in a different pattern. They were the same theme... floral, but completely different. I used to love to eat there to see which setting I'd get. I always thought it was a really cool thing to do. If you can't decide on a china pattern, just get one of each.

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magicmoodz — Sun, 30 Jul 2017 21:51:08 GMT

Very unimaginative!

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stevieb — Mon, 31 Jul 2017 00:17:16 GMT

@KathyM23 wrote:
By the way I really like the chairs.

That's the first thing I thought, too. As for all those plates, they're too much. They appear to all be the same pattern so that must be one heck of a china service.

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ScrapHappy — Mon, 31 Jul 2017 00:40:45 GMT

I wouldn't want to clean them.

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Sooner — Mon, 31 Jul 2017 01:15:21 GMT

Cough, Cough. Sneeze. Excuse me.

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lOVETOSHOP — Mon, 31 Jul 2017 01:55:23 GMT

Wow...I sure wouldn't want to have to dust those!

@Kachina624, I love the idea of mixing different place settings! One reason I ordered the Butterfly Meadow blue and lavender sets of dishes from QVC was the idea that everyone gets a different place setting but it all coordinates beautifully!

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alliswell — Mon, 31 Jul 2017 02:36:46 GMT

@lolakimono wrote:

Wow! That's a lotta plates!! I like it though, it's different, it's kind of elegant . . . a "plate" library.

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Lucky Charm — Mon, 31 Jul 2017 02:58:01 GMT

The only thing that stands out to me is the top tablecloth.

It bothers me.

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faeriemoon — Mon, 31 Jul 2017 12:32:21 GMT

Too "old lady tea room" for me. If you lose the junk on the walls, the furniture has the potential to be funky/chic.

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Witchy Woman — Mon, 31 Jul 2017 13:16:01 GMT

While the look of the room does not unsettle me, I wondered one thing.

Who in the world wants that many plates?

I love nice dinnerware, but some time last year I crossed a line. In that moment, it came to me -- when I'm gone, there is no one that will want this. They will either trash it or give it away.

So, I started to give things away. Mostly to the Salvation Army.

Oh, don't get me wrong, I enjoy my home and all the things around me. But, I realized there is a limit. As I've aged, I want less. I want less of everything. I don't want someone coming in after I'm dead thinking I was crazy

Of course, it doesn't really matter in the end, but I'm spending more time getting rid of things than I am acquiring them.

I wouldn't mind having dinner in that dining room, but I'm glad it's not in MY house.

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blueroses47 — Mon, 31 Jul 2017 13:27:45 GMT

That is very interesting.....everything in the room is beautiful, and it's all pretty tonal, so that's why in a way it does work.

But even for me, a person who has some plates hanging in almost every room, and who likes to have decorative objects on pretty much every wall, it really is too busy. And for me, that's saying a lot.

I kind of like it, but would never want to do it, I guess I'm saying.

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ms traditional — Mon, 31 Jul 2017 13:55:11 GMT

i would enjoy being in this room. i like the soup tureens/serving dishes tucked in the corner. i have some lovely ones that are pieces of art unto themselves. also the platters at the top- which are always a bear to store. so it's a shame that they sit unappreciated in a storage cupboard. maybe if people used/displayed more of these treasures there would be a higher appreciation of same. but we live in a throwaway/instant gratification/run run run world, it seems. not much time for craftsmanship, artistic expression, appreciation for things of beauty - regarding the number of plates, i inherited many plate sets from mother/grandmothers which included a large number of each pattern for when people had buffets for 20-30 people. that's the way it was done.

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Mominohio — Mon, 31 Jul 2017 14:11:54 GMT

Unique and different, but the walls are not up to the elegance of the dishes or the furniture. Simply lining the dishes up, and the distracting lines of the holding piece on each shelf is distracting.

If you remove those 'bars', layer the pieces (like a dinner plate with a salad plate on top of each one, and alternate platters every other shelf with the plates, it would provide more depth, focus on the pretty dishes (not those annoying rails), and seem more like a huge hutch and a wall of boring plates.

All that said, I wouldn't want it in my house, to much to keep clean.

I think it would be fun to work with this and make it better.

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Bri36 — Mon, 31 Jul 2017 14:52:21 GMT

All that gives me the willies...