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All the time, especially because I love to many different kinds of styles, and don't have enough room to keep 20 different sets. I noticed that in the end, it's relatively easy to make very different things look good together.

mos def, but that is totally my style. i can see how it would skeeve people out. I have fiestaware in 5 colors that we registered for and a plain white cafe set that i inherited from a friend.

then i mix and match a striped set of four plates from TJ maxx or my great grandmas china or a set of dessert plates with big old flowers on them. Anything i add to my collection (or receive if the gifters knows me well) works with the white or fiesta.

I don't mind mixed dishes, as long as they have a common theme to tie them together. For example, all white dishes of various shapes, or everything in shades of green, or all vintage floral patterns. That table above looks like the owner just bought whatever was cheapest at the flea market and threw them together.

i love the idea of mixing all-white dishes (albeit with different patterns). I think it would be a little harder to make a larger set, but that would add to the fun of the hunt. But since my husband was laid off, I'll have to stick with my $100 cheapie set from Penneys.

I do, simply because I don't have the money or space for a whole new set. I have tried to acquire dishes in the same color scheme: blue and white.

I actually think the table looks great!

I haven't been able to implement this yet, but my goal is to have one simple white set (I've been eyeing my grandma's from the 60s). That way, I can add different touches as the mood strikes me. I've been collecting a lot of hand-made pottery serving dishes, so you can't go wrong with white. Also, my boyfriend loves birds, so I've been slowly giving him pieces of the Charley Harper set, which would go well with white or any neutral, really.

I don't like this picture but I do like the idea. But I'm too much of a control freak to let this happen in my house. I guess I like matching dishes on my own table. But I would love to eat a meal off mismatched plates at someone else's house.

I love this when it's done well. My fantasy house has mix-and-match blue and white china. My reality apartment has blue and cream Lu-Ray china I inherited from my grandmother.

I hate mixing dishes because I grew up in a house filled to the brim with mismatched plates, bowls, cups, and flatware. Not even the colors complemented each other! Now I have a small set of matching, white dishes and matching, modern flatware.

I must say, though, that my friend has an extensive set of mismatched, girly teacups, and when she has a tea party, it looks very cute...if you're into the frilly, gold rimmed style.

This has always been my style, though not like the photo above. I tend to go with handmade and asian pottery so it all works together. Plus, I just love dinnerware too much to limit myself to one set.

mixing and matching plates is very japanese...they've been doing it for centuries

I love the idea of doing this but I hate staking mismatched sets into small cupboards. Matching sets stack together nicely and look good in the cubpoard. I love mismatched spread out on the table though. I have a mismatched tea set and coffee set that I keep on my shelf and everything else is plain white.

Oh, yes!
I did this before it was in style and I still do.

God NO!!!

I tend to be eclectic so I love to mix and match my dishes. I especially like to mix and match my fiestaware.

I've been mixing and matching all my adult life, but I'm sick of it and have decided, when all my current dishes are gone (not much longer, I suspect, as we're a high-breakage household), I'm going to stick to Diner White from Fishs Eddy.

Madampince, I made the same decision earlier this year, and I miss my mismatched dishes. I'm going back.