i hung plates on my wall.

i would describe my style as modern farmhouse.
some of you would disagree.  so i may not be achieving that look, but that's what i like anyway.

i love the vintagy charm of hanging plates on a wall.
i also love the cheap inexpensive charm of hanging plates on a wall.

i hung these on our main kitchen wall.
i just grabbed a few plates here and there at good will & salvation army.
i was hoping to find some vintage white plates.
what i found was a bunch of cheesy plates with 80's designs & hand painted geese.
awesome.
luckily i know how to wield a can of spray paint. 

since they were all going to be white, i looked for plates that had some sort of pretty edging or texture to them.  i paid around 50 cents for most of them and a dollar for a couple of them.  i bought the middle platter new at t.j. maxx for $6.99.  that was the splurge of the project but i love it and if i get tired of the plate wall, i can use it as a pretty serving dish.

i bought the 98 cent can of gloss white spray paint from walmart and gave each of the other plates 2 or 3 good coats, letting them dry in between coats.  I used spray primer on a couple of the more patterned ones.

on the platter i used a traditional plate hanger.  one plate already had holes in the back to hang it with.  i used disc hangers that i got at hobby lobby on a couple of the heavier ones.
it looks like this:

it kind of cements to the back of the plate but also has the ability to come off if you ever want to remove it.
then i decided that i didn't want to spend more money on the hangers than i did the plates so i hooked up the rest ghetto style.

i got this idea here.  i figure that even if they fall and shatter into a bazillion pieces, i can always go spend another 50 cents to buy another one and it's still cheaper than a plate hanger.  I just poured a big ol' glob of hot glue all over the end of a paper clip or safety pin and let it cool.  so far it's working great.  it's been a week and they don't look like they're budging. 

do you like how i don't even take the time to clean up before a take a picture for my blog?
well that's real life peeps and i have to snap pictures in between quizzing on spelling words and wiping boogies and making play dough people.

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