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very good idea! usually I hate plates on a wall, but this time it's very decorative. Your plates seems to fly.... it's fresh.

This is lovely. I have hell hanging larger odd sized plates. The springs just don't hold up on the metal holders. Any tips?

I watched an HGTV show where they were desparately trying to sell someone's home, and they GLUED many plates to the stairwell walls. I would hate to have to clean up that mess.

I'm sorry to say that but they look tacky to me .There're things I can never change my mind about no matter what:Artificial plants,silk flowers and plates on the wall .

This looks similar to the format of the plate sculpture sold at Pier 1 Imports.

It's a nice start. Maybe if there were more, or the grouping was on a smaller wall, or hung lower? I dunno, but it's not looking finished yet.

I love this! And the Ikea curtain is super cute, too. Lovely!

It looks kind of random. There's nothing near it. This is something that looks right with a lot of excess happening. I see this and all the space around it and it's all that mustard color and I'm wondering if they'll fill that in or add more plates sometime or what. If not, then they should line them up and display them in rows.

I also wonder where these plates are from. Are they vintage/flea market or etsy or those places that let you paint the pottery or are they melamine or such. It's a start, but when you're going in that direction, you need to follow through, really do the job. A haphazard cluster of plates needs more plates and other stuff to get the look.

I've used "Adhesive Plate Hangers" purchased from the Container Store. I was skeptical. So far so good. No plates have fallen.
http://www.containerstore.com/browse/Product.jhtml?searchId=16364736&itemIndex=1&CATID=235&PRODID=73805

And just because I can't help it, I would be disturbed if anyone named my curtain from IKEA. IKEA isn't a bad place (I reserve that notion until after I've been once, ok), but as a brand to be recognized by sight, that's just not a good sign as far as I'm concerned. There's a Thai restaurant in Somerville (Union Square) with a whole dozen or more of the KNAPPA lights, it's hideous even from the sidewalk. I'm unsettled by the idea that shopping at IKEA is a regular habit for many, and that home improvement can't be accomplished without it, the tales of dodging the inevitable crowds one doesn't find in a normal retail establishment, and of one day liking something only for someone to pick apart the decor of my home by brand. I'm glad you like the IKEA curtain, but I'm sad that someone can't shop at IKEA for something cute without someone pointing it out.

I like the plates, and I think they "hang together" very well, because they do look related, and yet texturally complex as a whole. This person should be quite proud.

The plate format, with layers and motion, was done in a Pottery Barn catalog several issues back. (The combination of wall and plate colors, tho, is cool!)

But where do you find plate hangers? Any ideas?
I was thinking of doing a wall display with ceramic tiles I've collected. Is there somewhere I can order springy wire plate or tile hangers online?
Thanks by the way for the inspiration provided by this overlapping display.

ktg -- interesting points. what amazes me is that people are able to point out ikea items AND name them. aren't there like a billion items in the ikea store? do people study the catalog? and how do you remember those difficult names?

Pistachio, there are so many and the names so different than the 'norm', I don't even know how they could Google the names just for proper spelling.