Where Do I Keep it All?

Congrats to The Tablescaper who is celebrating her first year blogiversary with a terrific meme and I thought I'd join in the fun.  I'm excited to see how others store all their dishes and pretties.

And since it all has to do with tablescapes, I'm linking to Between Naps on the Porch for Tablescape Thursday as well.

To the people I know, it seems like I have a lot of dishes/pretties but compared to other bloggers out there, I better go shopping!

This is the Dish Pantry Mr. Delight made for me in the closet of our son's bedroom when he moved out.

These pictures are from last year and I've since "added to my collection" and Mr. Delight is promising to add more shelves in this bottom area.(He really is a "delight"!)

My glasses and stemware are kept in this china cabinet.

I have a closet in a downstairs room that I use for all my tablecloths, runners and placemats.

I used to keep my napkins here as well but

 have moved them to an empty chest of drawers in a spare bedroom as they were continually getting messed up!

 I have grouped them in sets of 4 napkins and put an elastic around each set.

This is another closet in my daughter's old room which is where I store my vases, candle holders and other pretties when not in use.

I got a little "kiddie" step stool that folds up so I can reach the top shelf easily.

Another dresser in this room holds all my candles, a drawer for votives, a drawer for tealights, a drawer for pillars, etc.

Yet another chest of drawers in the basement holds various "supplies" for tablescaping.

Do I dare say, there is ANOTHER dresser in the basement that houses all my smaller candle holders.

I'm pretty sure all tablescapers are looking for the IDEAL storage for their dishes and pretties no matter where they live.  

After trying to come up with the perfect solutions, I've realized no matter how you store things (not just dishes), ultimately you will have to CLEAN and STRAIGHTEN every so often.

There is no ideal method that does not involve some of that!

I'm fortunate though that I didn't get into this hobby until after my kids left home and I can now use their closets and old dressers!

Although it involves a bit of running around (aka exercise) if I put it altogether, I can end up with something like this...and that's the fun of it!

 
 Thanks for stopping by. 
Do you have room for all your "stuff"?