Plates on the walls - a creative approach to decorating

It is difficult to say at what time the first decorative plate appeared, decorating the wall of the house. If you can safely say about the first porcelain plate that it appeared in the 7th century, in China, then little is known about tableware as a wall decor. There is an assumption that the tradition of using plates as a decor appeared during the rewarding of subjects especially devoted to the sovereign with rare and expensive copies of painted plates. It is not surprising that the honorary porcelain product was given the best place in the subjects' house. But at the end of the 19th century, it was the collection of plates that came into fashion - rare, ancient, original. But the most popular were products in white and blue.

In the mid-20th century, a well-known company released a collection of plates designed exclusively for decoration. The precedent created was an impetus for other manufacturers. To this day, many designers and homeowners prefer to use paintings or photos as part of the original plates as wall decor. Collectibles, souvenirs, brought from travel or specially bought plates for decorating the walls of the plates, can turn the idea of ​​how to creatively and originally decorate the room.

Whether you want to create a composition from your existing plates or purchase copies specifically for wall decor, you should first familiarize yourself with the design projects of famous artists and successful attempts by homeowners to decorate their homes independently. Original and classic, simple and intricate, with a pattern and plain, round and fanciful shapes - there are many options for the execution of plates, and there are even more uses of this version of dishes for decorating walls. We hope that our original selection of photos will be useful to you and inspire your own exploits in decorating your home.

It is difficult to come up with a more suitable place for decorating the walls with beautiful plates than the dining room. In the room for eating, the plates on the wall will look organic and appropriate. If you are still taking the first steps in decorating the walls with plates, then start with the dining room - the most advantageous option. Simple recommendations will help you decorate the walls of the dining room in the most organic way:

• if obi with a pattern are used in the decoration of the room, then it is better to use plain plates of the original form:
• light decorative plates will look spectacularly against a dark background, and for a monophonic pastel finish, you can use colorful decor with bright paintings;
• the smaller the picture on the plates, the closer they should be to us (do not hang plates with painting high).

Against the dark background of the dining room, a light wall decor looks especially impressive, expressive. Large snow-white flowers brought a touch of romanticism to the austere interior of a black and white dining room.

Here is another option for the arrangement of plates of different sizes and colors on the dark background of the dining room. Plain and colored, smooth and carved - unlucky plates made up the original composition.

A set of plain plates presented in the same color scheme was perfect for a dining room covered with wallpaper with a print. Different shades of green brought spring freshness to the interior of the dining room in pastel colors.

Bright, plain plates effectively support the neutral image of the dining room. Pastel colors and plenty of sunlight became key elements in creating the interior.

An unusual version of decorating the walls of the dining room is to compose a panel picture from plates of different sizes and colors.For authenticity with the picture, the designers did not even spare some of the plates and cut them along the contour of an imaginary rectangle of wall decor.

At present, it is not difficult to compose a composition of plates on which portraits of your family, memorable events and faces are applied using photo printing. If you are not ready to exhibit your own photos, start with black and white images on small plates.

Large wall decor of unusual shape and color, which can hardly even be called plates, can become an accent element of the interior. In a practically white dining room, bright, colorful decor items look like “stars” of design.

Another example of how in a bright, neutral by choice of color solutions the room of a dining plate with bright painting can bring notes of a positive mood and good mood.

The composition of fish plates of different sizes, but made in the same color scheme, helped to not only decorate, but also to add notes of enthusiasm and positive to the interior of the dining room.

Bright glass wall plates look great on a masonry-cladding. The grayish-beige tones of the interior are effectively diluted with the colorful performance of unusual plates.

Along with the placement of decorative plates on the walls of the dining room, a similar design technique is used for kitchen facilities. Of course, in the kitchen space there are much fewer free walls for decoration than in the dining room, but you can find the opportunity to hang your collection. Gzhel decorative plates are one of the most popular painting options.

In a traditional kitchen with a snow-white design, “white” plates of white color look incredibly organic in the space of a kitchen apron.

Many believe that you can enter decorative plates into the interior of the living room only in certain style directions. For example, traditional stylistics or shabby chic. But when choosing a wall decor, you can only be guided by color and texture combinations, your own preferences and get an incredibly attractive and original result when decorating a living room of any stylistic direction.

If your living room has a working or improvised fireplace, then the space above it literally needs to be decorated. As a rule, this zone is very extensive and can accommodate very large instances of wall decor or a whole composition of plates of different sizes and shapes. The elaborate glass decor items look luxurious and add originality to the traditional interior of the living room.

In the living room, plates can be hung over a chest of drawers or any other low storage system. Also organically similar wall decor will look in the space between the windows or on both sides of the doorway.

A truly summer mood will bring bright glass plates of different sizes into the interior of the room. Placed on special tripods of different lengths, several colorful plates make up the original volumetric composition.

Decorative plates are perfectly combined with other objects of wall decor - paintings, panels or photos within. The main thing that must be observed when composing compositions from a variegated wall decor is the symmetry and unity of the stylistic performance.

Designing a living room in a marine style, we often use textiles in white-blue or blue stripes. In such an interior decorative plates with Gzhel painting will organically look. Delicate patterns can soften the straightness of the textile colors.

Even in the living room, decorated in a modern style, prone to minimalism, for decorative plates there is a place on the walls. The composition of plain plates of contrasting colors and different sizes looks accented, bringing color diversity to a fairly austere living room interior.

Plates woven from threads and ropes, hollowed out from a single piece of wood, deep and not very bright and wood colors, plain and with a pattern - made an unusual composition in the living room, decorated in white colors.

Agree that it is not often possible to meet plates as wall decor for a bedroom. The more interesting and original the interior can turn out. For example, a bedroom decorated in the style of shabby chic or vintage can be organically decorated with antique plates from your grandmother’s collection or with decorative items bought by you at flea markets and antique shops.

An unusual way to place plates with carved edges using tapes on the wall can be a great decoration for a girl’s bedroom. Ribbons selected in color to an interior will be an excellent addition to monophonic decorative plates.

In addition to the solo presence on the walls of the bedroom, decorative plates can appear in company with another wall decor. Framing the mirror in a luxurious snow-white frame with positive mint-colored plates has become an accent interior in the bedroom.

In the bedroom, decorated in a classic style, several small plates above the headboard will look more than appropriate. This wall decor brings notes of home warmth and coziness to the interior of the bedroom.

Ethnic-style plates painted in ceramics or woven from multi-colored ropes are an excellent decoration for the original design of a sleeping room.

Not everyone can imagine decorative plates adorning the walls of a bathroom or a bathroom. But surprisingly, this decor looks very organic in utilitarian rooms. A composition of plates of different shapes and sizes, plain and with drawings, plot and abstract, has become a decoration of the bathroom, made in bright colors.

Original flower plates in a single-color version can decorate any room. The design decision to decorate the walls of the bathroom was more than successful.

As if outlandish green plants appeared in a pastel-colored bathroom, adding freshness and mischief to the spring mood in the design of the utilitarian room.

For rare, antique or simply expensive decorative plates, it is better to use special holders when attaching to the wall. This is the most reliable mounting method. Plates made in the same style will harmoniously look on a tripod.

Huge beautiful flowers with a natural color have become a real find for decorating the hallway. Expressive, voluminous, contrasting and original - after a few seconds in such a room it is already difficult to imagine this space without such a wall decor.

Above the chest of drawers or whatnot, located in the hallway or hallway, you can place a composition of plates of different shapes, colors and sizes. On a plain wall decoration, such a decor will look especially impressive.