How many dinner plates do you have?

[Nikee20]

Very lighthearted post -

We are a family of 3 and have 5 dinner plates (just moved - this is what survived the move).
We don’t have any ‘posh dinner plates’ either.

I’m looking at dinner sets and trying to work out what we need.

How many people live in your house and how many dinner plates do you have?

It really lasts, though. Just passed on my 25 year old Denby juice to my sister after replacing it with Denby Porcelain Arc. 4 if us, 8 each of dinner plates, salad plates and pasta bowls. Plus 4.each of some other bits.

Two people, four plates (two put away as spares) - they're the survivors of a set of six we've had since the 70s.

60 dinner plates. Similar number of side/cake plates and bowls. 12 of each are plain white cheap everyday, the rest are inherited or wedding lovely fine china but are mostly used regularly. We could easily manage with fewer!

Every day ones in the kitchen cupboard, I do have quite good size ceiling height wall cupboards.

The Noritake is in a display cupboard in the open plan dining room. Outdoor crockery in closed cupboard underneath display cupboard. All the spare cutlery in that cupboard too.

Off the back of this thread, I had a look on the very top shelf of wall cupboard and I found another 4 set of white which I forgot I had. I also found crystal glass dessert bowls which belonged to my nana, and a really old Beatrix Potter bowl. I bought this in charity shop when my dd was a baby, she's 21 now. I also found a good collection of tea pots, I don't even use tea pots. So I have some sorting out of those to do.

All our everyday stuff is in the kitchen.
Nice dinner set, tea set, glasses, serving bowls and everything else that doesn't fit in our small kitchen is in the dining room which thankfully has good storage.

“Where do you put it all?”
We did a mini furniture move yesterday and I now find myself facing an empty wall unit instead of the TV. I’m going to fill it with an artistic display of my collected china, glasses etc. Nobody else is interested…
I see Toile de Jouy patterns have come into fashion. I’ve always loved them and I have a load of similar style car-boot sale red, blue, green, brown Spode Mason and other Ironstone pottery that would look great displayed on my empty kitchen wall.
Now to find a picture hanging app…

There are two of us and we have eight settings in our dinner set and then a couple of odd plates at the back of the cupboard which are the ones that survived from our student days. 8 was the magic number for me because I thought that was the biggest number of people we were likely to be serving dinner to at once (small house). We don’t have a separate fancy set and every day set.

8 from a set I first bought in 1995, I keep buying new bits on eBay

I no longer have a best set

Loads. Probably 16 dinner plates, 10+ medium size, 10+ side plates and bowls plus random ones people have left over the years. Cooked for 9 people last Christmas so went a bit mad buying extras last year. Bought another 10 lots of cutlery too.