Re-Create an Old Plate

It is trash to treasure time, and that means it's time to start looking for vintage plates because we've got great ideas on what to do with a cupboard full of these. ??? And what better way to start than with a dessert tray? Very cute. Start and end dessert tray. I like that... That's really fresh looking. Thanks. What we did was take three different plates that we found at a salvage center and put them together. They are threaded with lamp parts. Really? Yeah, really inexpensive lamp parts. You can see the base here is just a lamp piece, incredibly inexpensive. Love the chrome edge to it. It gives it that real contemporary... Chrome is doing really well now stylewise. I like the juxtaposition of the classic-looking plates with the chrome. It's very nice. Thanks. If you've got a couple of plates that don't fit the whole surface, turn it into wall sconces. Yeah. The idea here is basically adding another element to a wall that's not a picture, but in a way, it's adding art to your wall because the prints here that you find on many of these really are beautiful, and when you get 'em on a wall, they become this different element. Literally, it's a drill bit... You go right through the ceramic, and you add on the attachment, which you can find at a building center. You can. You can find these at a building center or even a craft store. Inexpensive, but again, it makes a great usable piece of art for a wall. Finally, a mosaic decorative tray. You got it. Very cool... Look, you can't eat off it, but i'd be tempted. You got it... The permanent place setting. Completely decorative, but a fun look. The idea came from a tray that i saw in a very high-end store in new york, and i can't remember exactly, but it was like $600. Oh, my gosh. It was an astronomical price point, and so we just basically took an existing tray, we then found the plate that we wanted, we sharded that, and we also took some mirror. Wait, you sharded it? Sharded it... You broke it. We broke it. It's that sophistication. The $600 word for broken plate is shard. Don't just break it... Shard it. We set those all into place. We actually replicated the two serving utensils, and that was it. It's a simple project really to do. It's just the concept, i think, is very high style.