I do not like pieces displayed in spaces where they would not be used I would have some shlving built to display all in the DR or kitchen that makes sense to me.If you post pics of the spaces to show the whole space it will get you better ideas. Post heere in comments DO NOT start another post

Do you actually use these plates or are they just for show? If you use them, you don’t actually have to display all of them. The display you have in the dining room is lovely. I’d stick to displaying the larger pieces and put the rest away.

I agree with Sabrina; they don’t all have to be displayed. The shelves in your first photo look a bit crowded. I think your lovely collection would pull more focus with fewer pieces.

Agree with the others that all pieces don't have to be displayed. It seems some of them are the same pattern. I would just display some of the plates and the serving pieces. I notice you have some glass cabinets in the kitchen, you could stack some of the extras there as well.

I think it might get overwhelming to keep adding more display zones for this collection. Can you put some away, and cycle them in and out of the shelves you already have? That would make the ones on display easier for a visitor to appreciate too.

The hallway spot indeed feels a bit precarious.

A "collection", in design vernacular implies different objects with a very unifying common denominator.

Someone may collect brass candlesticks- a zillion shapes sizes, Hummels, Lladro figurines , walking sticks, needlepoint pillows, even baseball hats! . They each share a genre but they are all different from one another within the genre. Some may be very special, others not so much. That's the joy of collecting- which is more than abundance, it is also curating the collection; the thrill of the hunt for the very special.

Your plates can be displayed where they make the most sense, decoratively enjoyed for their color, and the rest ( dupes especially ) stored for regular use and continuing enjoyment.

Put a lot of them away for that purpose: )

I love your home and your collection--that green is gorgeous and looks beautiful against the gold wallpaper!

Instead of putting the duplicates away, can you store and display them in the same cabinets? Stack some horizontally in front of a vertical one?

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I might also remove the blue and white pieces from the china cabinet--they seem to distract from the green pieces.

You can buy wrought iron plate racks to hang on the walls too. The plates are set in them and easily removed if you want to use them for eating or serving. I have a large collection of blue and white transferware in my vacation house, and even though everything is displayed, we use them all the time.

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Try stacking some of the plates to add variety to your display and remove the extraneous pieces.

Lots of ways to hang plates

I love collections! It’s refreshing to find a person who tracks down beautiful, meaningful objects, becoming educated to the better pieces. One daughter collects ironstone, one collects salt glazed pottery. Of course it is a challenge to display this carefully hunted treasure. Don’t listen to the naysayers here. Some people would prefer you go to Hobby Lobby to get decor……

You’re plates are lovely but at some point more is not better…

A little of a complimentary color to green would be nice.

Lovely plates there. I would hang them in a nice arrangement on the wall. If you have a plant shelf over the kitchen cabinets, you could set them up there against the wall.

Assuming you don't use the plates, so as to preserve them, the only way to enjoy them is to have them on display. I have a collectors plate collection--the sort one doesn't use for eating because they are paintings applied to plates--I've taken to having a different 7 of them on display each month or season depending on the time of year. Your collection was made to be USED. I love my late MIL's attitude "What's the point of having something if you are afraid to use it". So I would encourage you to continue to display the serving pieces that are often rarely needed and use the rest if not daily, then perhaps for date night or Sundays.....

When collections become large, they can become problematic.(Not that I am against large collections at all). But having various sized plate racks in different places starts to scatter them.

The two plate racks look great, but I think the best solution (and an expensive solution) would be a Bigger plate rack, that looked just like these, in the same spot, like the same thing as your 4th picture but with another shelf or two and maybe with some of the tureen or pot type pieces on the top of the cornice.

I think the wall-hung plates like Beverly shows in her 3rd and 5th pictures are great, but I don't think I would do large wall hung groups and large shelved groups in view of each other.

I don't know what opportunities you have for built in shallow shelves to display things, but I have put shelves above closet doors in my house to display collections, so that are visible, but also up and out of the way.

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My parents had friends who were collectors (they actually built a "barn" to entertain in and display the husband's collections). The house was small and many of the rooms were lined with narrow purpose built shelves to house whatever it was (hundreds of nutcrackers and peppermills in the kitchen, hundreds of pieces of Asian porcelain in the dining room hundreds of something else wherever). It was overwhelming, it was like being in one of the more academic parts of a museum, but it was all also very well displayed. She also had an essentially full-time employee who had the Sisyphean task of removing things from the shelves, dusting the shelves, putting things back, shelf by shelf, room by room, over and over again in an unending cycle. So I dunno, I am not going to say anything is too much if it's done well.

Nothing to add to the solid advice above just wanted to say your collection is lovely!

Thanks all. Yeah, I probably need to stop buying more. thinking of switching to gold ones for the kitchen, lol. Regretting the sale of a large hutch when we moved recently. I’ll stop before this happens. Though it *is* pretty.

Oh, dear, that hutch was perfect :(