Decorating with Plates

My sunroom is my shabby chic room. I showed you here where I updated the room for $6.00 worth of fabric I found at the consignment shop. I was able to do so many things with that piece of fabric.

In keeping with the pink/shabby chic look, I decided to hang various plates above the windows in the sun room. Any plate with pink roses, is fair game for a spot above the windows.

This lovely platter was found at an antique shop for $5.00.

This is an enamelware pie pan that belonged to my MIL, so I put it inside the frames above her jelly cupboard.

I have another plate somewhere that is extremely old, and belonged to my grandmother. It's among other dishes, and I need to go through them and put it up on the wall too. All these plates have been purchased at various times from consignment/antique shops. None of them are very expensive, but they make a distinctive impact on the room.

Do you decorate with plates? It's a really frugal way to dress up an area on your walls.

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