Why have plates plates been such a popular decorative item both in the past and today? Why have so many plates been produced through the years? The reason is that plates have many advantages and great flexibility as a decoration. You can use the plates in countless ways, where only the imagination sets the limits. Below I will show you how to use plates in home decor. It is easy to find plates in matching colour. Blue especially is easy to find and this also makes it easy to group plates. You do not need to have the same theme in the motif of the plates that you group, they just need to have a match in the colours for you to get an interesting collage. If you have a theme that you like, it will also be possible the make af grouping of these. There are for instance many plates with  ship motifs .  By grouping plates you also give them more weight in the room and they can fill out large spaces, when grouped well. When using plates the patterns that you can ...

There are much porcelain dinnerware available at reasonable prices. Thus it also makes sence to start using it on a daily basis, where it can look nice on the table and be used more often. But then the question arises; can I put it in the dishwasher and the microwave oven? Dishwasher How does your porcelain tableware fare in the dishwasher? Dinnerware that is underglazed like the white or blue painted was no trouble going into the dishwasher. That is White Fluted, Blue Fluted, Blue Flower, Empire, Mega, the Hans Christian Andersen service etc. It goes for any dinner wervice with the decoration beneather the glazing. Even newer dinner services with in-glaze decoration like flora can go into the dishwasher. Faience tableware like Blue Edge can go into the dishwasher, too. Christmas plates and mother's day plates from Royal Copenhagen, Bing & Grondahl and Desirée are all underglaze porcelain and can be washed in the dishwasher. So do not be afraid to use your Chr...

If you like to have some seafood or maybe a bit of sushi, then the many dishes and bowls from Royal Copenhagen and Bing & Grondahl with crayfish and crab motifs are good choice for serving with style. You can also choose to have an advanced sushi plate with the chopsticks resting in the claws of the crab. When you are serving seafood, what would then be better than to add some style with interesting dishes that fit in with the ocean theme? This way you can set a good seaside atmosphere on the table with the many sea creatures represented on the serving dishes. Find the many dishes for serving seafood from only EUR 26.47 here! See the entire selection of Royal Copenhagen and Bing & Grondahl dishes here!

May has arrived and everything is new again! In this lovely season everything blooms anew and this also means that it might be time that you visit new trends. Since May is also the month of Mother's Day, I want to show you some of the home decor ideas connected to Mother's Day. Beautiful wall decoration from Desirée Plates are a fun and uncommon way to decorate your living room and you can use the wonderful Mother's Day plates from  Desirée Old Danish Blue  as a different wall decoration for the living room. They are cheaply available and can be set in patterns on the wall that paintings cannot match. All the plates have cute and fun motifs that liven up the room. But that is not all! The plates are excellent for having a nice lunch with cute images under the food. And the best thing is that they can be put in the dishwasher. The  whole set  shown in the picture above can be had for only EUR 22.40! Find your Desirée Old Danish Blue plates from o...

So you have some wonderful Danish porcelain from either Royal Copenhagen or Bing & Grondahl , but you don't know, how old your cherrished item is? How do you date your porcelain? Fear not! Help is at hand! Both Royal Copenhagen and Bing & Grondahl has left clues in their trademarks/factory seals that will help you date your porcelain. Want to learn more about the history of Royal Copenhagen - click here! Or learn more about the history of Bing & Grondahl - click here! So how do you go about it? Underneath your item you can find the factory seal that tells you, which factory made it, but the style can also tell you something about when the piece was produced. Over the years changes where made to the seals, which can help you in your quest to date the item. The seals retain some features through the years like the three waves of Royal Copenhagen and the three towers and the B&G of Bing & Grondahl, but there are changes, which makes it possible to give a mor...