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Saturday, 22 January 2011

Storing China

As I mentioned recently I really love dishes.  I have quite a few sets (which I will be doing a post on as soon as I get photos taken of them) that I really enjoy using.   Whenever I go to the thrift store or the sale section in stores I'm always looking out for pretty sets of plates or bowls.  However along with the thrill of finding new dishes comes the problem of where to store them.  Several of you commented in my last post that you were fast running out of places to keep your china.

I did a Google search and apparently there are many people who enjoy collecting china.  In looking at all the lovely collections, I was impressed with some of the beautiful images of  cupboards and shelves full of dishes.  Seeing shelves filled with pretty dishes makes me want to get them out and play with them - to set a pretty table, arrange different colours and patterns together, examine them up close...

Here are some of the pretty ways I found to store dishes:

Some people stored dishes on open shelves,

Coastal Living via The Old Post Road

or in a slotted plate rack on the wall,

Un Petit Dream

or in a zinc-lined pharmaceutical cabinet,

Eddie Ross
 or in cupboards with glass doors,

Canadian House and Home
or wooden doors.

The City Sage
Some dishes were stored on open shelves in the kitchen,

Willow Decor

or in kitchen cabinets,

Martha Stewart

or in kitchen drawers,

Garden Web
or in closets or rooms devoted entirely to storing china (for more photos and a great post about butler's pantries and china closets see here),

House Beautiful via S. W. Designs
 or in hutches or china cabinets in the dining room.

JPD School of Design Palm Beach

Some collections included complete sets of dishes with bowls, side plates, dinner plates, cups, and serving pieces,

Martha Stewart
and others were specialized, like this amazing collection of cafe au lait bowls,

 Martha Stewart
 or this impressive collection of Pyrex bowls.

In the Berry Patch
 Some displayed only neutral-coloured dishes,

Country Living

some pastel dishes,

Beautiful Things to Share
and some were a rainbow of bright colours.

The Little Round Table
I keep mine on open shelves in the kitchen and in an over-flowing china cabinet.  What about you?  How do you store your dishes?

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