A vintage quilt hanging above the sofa. An oversized painting plucked from a flea market in the dining room. A purposeful salon wall touting memories and mementos. In a time when microtrends move at a blink-and-you’ll-miss pace, returning to storied, personal ways to outfit your home feels like a quiet resistance to all the digital noise—a way of creating a haven that embraces storytelling. In other words, a space that won’t look copy and pasted from social media or quickly dated. Maybe it’s filled with age-old materials like silver or a colorful wall-to-wall carpet —it’s yours and you want it to feel that way.

One way to honor a decorative tradition of the past while telling your own story? A hanging cluster of decorative plates—otherwise known as a plate wall. This time-honored ar

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