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April 1, 2018 · 12 Comments

Our Mismatched Place Settings

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Are you looking for a way to make your dinner table a little more colorful and fun? We recently swapped out our plain white plates for a mismatched place setting thanks to our new Anthropologie plates. 

Anthropologie plates

There’s this small plates restaurant in Austin that Corey and I love and go to every chance we get. They have a really eclectic, homey vibe, and all of their plates are totally mismatched and random. Corey fell in love with the look from the very first time we went, and he’s been talking about collecting some mismatched plates for our home for a little over a year now.

Originally our plan was to find a collection of random vintage plates from various thrift stores, but one day we were browsing in Anthropologie (a lot of bad decisions start with that sentence, amiright?) and it hit us that they have basically our dream plates, and they’re all the same style so they coordinate really nicely.

Light bulb moment!

Of course, let me preface this with the reminder that we are not normally the type to just waltz into Anthro and drop a couple hundred bucks on new plates. We waffled back and forth on this for months and months before making a decision, but one day we went in and they were having a major sale on everything in the store (which almost never happens!) so we decided to go for it.

Gulp.

Our Anthropologie Plates: What We Think

Anthropologie dinnerware

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It was way more money than we normally spend on something like this for our home, but a nice splurge is good for you every once in a while! We figured that since we’ve been thinking about it for so long, we’d regret it if we let the opportunity slip by – plus, we knew it wasn’t a hasty decision so we probably wouldn’t end up wishing we hadn’t done it.

And so far, we totally don’t regret it. Seriously, how can you regret these beauties?

Mismatched place settings

We snatched these up without much of a plan about what we would actually do with them. We still have our full set of plain white plates from Crate & Barrel that we registered for, and we love them, but we want to put these into regular rotation in our home and we want to show ’em off as much as we can. We don’t like to keep our table set all the time (we’ve tried it before and it made us crazy), so what we’ll probably do is put these out on the open shelving in our kitchen and store the white plates elsewhere.

I mean…I can’t pass up this pretty pop of color on the shelves!

Open shelving with dishes

The only thing we’ve got to figure out from here is what the rest of our “typical” place setting might look like. When we have people over (and sometimes even when we don’t) we like to set the table all fancy-like, with salad plates, pretty napkins, etc. Our normal placemats definitely don’t work with these plates, and our plain white salad plates look pretty pathetic.

Anthropologie dishes

We’ve talked about buying the matching set of salad plates for each of these plates and mixing + matching them on the table as well, but I haven’t decided for sure. We could try to find some vintage plates that coordinate, but that would probably take forever. We could just skip the salad plates, but then I feel like the place setting looks like it’s missing something. Am I overthinking this?!

Table set with Anthropologie plates

Anthropologie floral plates

I’m so excited that we have the plates now, and I love how pretty they look on our table. I really want to be better about not leaving the table completely blank on a day-to-day basis, so this has really inspired me to start gathering some things like a runner and a centerpiece so that my table looks nice even when it’s not in use. Who knows, maybe I’ll try leaving it set again…after all, these plates are much more fun to look at than my plain white ones!

How to Get the Mismatched Place Setting Look

If you want to get the same look for your table, here are the plates we purchased:

  • Anthropologie Saga Dinner Plate
  • Anthropologie Old Havana Dinner Plate
  • Anthropologie Sissinghurst Dinner Plate
  • Our fourth plate is no longer available – but the Melbourne Dinner Plate would be a great final option!

A dining table set with Anthropologie plates

Do you have multiple types of place settings in your home or do I have a plate-collecting problem? What do you think we should do about the salad plates and the chargers?

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An UPDATE: Review of Our Anthropologie Plates 2 Years Later

We’ve officially had these plates for two years now, and I can safely say we still LOVE them! They’ve held up extremely well with almost no chipping (there are a couple, but with young kiddos in the house it’s just about impossible to avoid), and the colors are just as vibrant and beautiful as the day we purchased them.

I still highly recommend these plates – if you’d like to see how we style them in our new dining room (hint: it’s way better than what you see above!) check out this post for a look at our gorgeous new dining room! 

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  1. Vicky Corey says

    September 19, 2016 at 7:32 pm

    I think the multiple plates are so neat! Your table looks great! I love the way you can mix and match now!

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    • Amanda says

      September 19, 2016 at 7:38 pm

      Thanks, Vicky!!

      Reply
  2. laura739 says

    September 18, 2016 at 7:51 am

    I love The Pioneer Woman’s new line at Walmart. (I am usually not a Walmart girl, but you can’t beat the prices.) She has some bold solid colors with a little detail, or even other florals! Like this: https://www.walmart.com/ip/Pioneer-Woman-Paige-Denim-Crackle-Glaze-Salad-Plate/46429804

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  3. Debbie says

    September 16, 2016 at 8:42 pm

    I actually really like the look of the chargers you have with these plates…I think the metallic neutral looks really good with those colors! I also don’t mind the white salad plate look (I think it lets the designer plates shine), but I could understand why it would look blah to some people. And I like the idea of various bold solid color salad plates that coordinate with the colors in the plates. They will coordinate and not distract too much from all the pretty plates under them!

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    • Amanda says

      September 18, 2016 at 8:18 am

      Thanks, Debbie! I think my main problem with the white plates is they cover up so much of the pattern and don’t really add anything. I like the idea of various colored salad plates. You guys are genius! 🙂

      Reply
  4. Jamie says

    September 16, 2016 at 9:50 am

    I was also going to suggest a glass salad plate — or even a colored glass! Or you could do salad plates that are a solid color that coordinates with the plate below it.

    As a fellow Austinite, I kind of need to know what restaurant you’re talking about! 😀

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    • Amanda says

      September 18, 2016 at 8:17 am

      Odd Duck! It’s on Lamar downtown near the Alamo Drafthouse. It’s expensive but SO WORTH IT. My cousin is the manager, too! 😉

      Love the idea of a solid color that coordinates!

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    • Jamie says

      September 19, 2016 at 10:25 am

      Adding to my list of places to check out! Thanks!

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      • Amanda says

        September 19, 2016 at 7:41 pm

        Can’t recommend it enough!

        Reply
  5. Jenn(ifer) says

    September 16, 2016 at 6:36 am

    Hi Amanda
    How about glass salad plates
    another layer & texture and usually available for rather cheap…
    Congrats on the splurge & greetings from Germany
    Jenn(ifer)

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    • Jenn(ifer) says

      September 16, 2016 at 6:49 am

      ikea has two options that I could totally see working
      simple:
      http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/20137912/
      or a little more special:
      http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/30221788/
      or mix and match? maybe with some from the thrift store…

      Reply
      • Amanda says

        September 18, 2016 at 8:17 am

        I love both of those! We’ll have to go get one to try it out. Great idea!

        Reply

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