The Vintage Kitchenware Martha Stewart Uses To Decorate Around Large Windows

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Style guru Martha Stewart knows how to create a beautiful home with impeccable base elements, furniture, and decorative accents. This includes her choice of wall decor, which can often prove a challenge, especially if you have a lot of walls to fill. While you can always go for the expected artwork or a mirror, Stewart shows off another fun alternative. When decorating a room in her home with multiple large windows and ample wall space in between, she turns instead to beautiful vintage Wedgewood plates and platters. The vintage designs bring in gorgeous texture and sculptural beauty, while still keeping to a neutral palette that looks perfect on the floral wallpaper-decked walls.

Employing plates and similar kitchenware on your walls is a great use for thrifted and antique finds, as well as a customizable wall installation that you can adjust to the size of your allotted wall space. While Stewart uses botanically-inspired decades-old tableware, you can actually use any variety of plates, even mixing different styles, colors, textures, and eras of design that fit your aesthetics. Floral transferware dishes, for example, would be gorgeous in a cottage-style room, while vintage Hull Pottery dripware items would be stunning in a more rustic space. You can even make plain dishes into custom art by adding images or words to your wall decor with a cool DIY, using printable decal paper. This type of arrangement is perfect for the area around windows since you can adjust the size and shape of the installation accordingly. For expansive spaces, you can incorporate larger platters and dishes, or for smaller, more slender walls, use saucers and salad plates, which you can usually find in abundance while thrifting.

The stunning kitchen trend that has everyone putting vintage plates on their walls, is a great chance to put to use beautiful old dishes, be they family heirlooms that you love, or pretty plates picked up from thrift stores or other secondhand venues. Plates with a lot of variations in size and shape work really well together to create a wall like Martha Stewart's. You can use an eclectic mix or stick to one variety, brand, or design. To hang the plates on the wall, you will need plate hanging hardware like these wire Hotop Plate Hangers or adhesive Aphrordity Invisible Plate Hangers.

Before driving any nails into the wall, lay out your pieces on a floor or tabletop, measuring the distances between them to reproduce the same measurements on the wall. You can go with a more symmetrical arrangement like Stewarts', or opt for an asymmetrical display, instead. For a more eclectic look, install plates around the top and sides to frame the window, if you have the space. One useful hack for hanging a grouping of objects on the wall is to trace out the shape of the plates on a roll of giant kraft paper, tape it to the wall, and use it as a guide for where to put your nails.