{dining room before & after + plate display}

Happy Friday! I've only been back to work for 3 days but I am sooo excited to have a couple days off again!! As promised, here's a bit of decorating heaven for you to round off the first week of the year. Who doesn't love a satisfying before & after? Here's a fabulous and striking dining room designed by Colleen McGill of McGill Design Group.

BEFORE:

AFTER:

McGill Design Group

 

Wowzers! I love everything about it, the inky blue walls, the gold-trimmed table, the plush chairs, ginger jars, AND that plate display! It's such a graphic & modern twist on the traditional plate wall. It got me thinking how I'd love to try something like that one day; here are a few other fab examples:

Graham Moss; Greg Natale

 

I love either blue & white or black and white in a simple symmetrical pattern, and I adore the idea of using Fornasetti plates.

Kelly Wearstler; source unknown

 

Tone on tone is pretty fabulous too:

 

McGill Design Group

 

Grey and gold could also be amazing:

 

Waylande Gregory

 

What do you think? Are you loving this contemporary take on the plate wall display as much as I am?