We’re smitten with these porcelain plate cut-outs we recently produced for a fairytale-inspired shoot in our latest Ideas Issue (page 65). Lucky for you, were giving two away to a DECO reader…
WIN A miniature porcelain stag head (above). Simply comment below and tell us where in your home you’ll be displaying yours.
DECO CIY Cut miniature stag heads, or other shapes, out of Blue Willow or Delft-patterned plates. Ours were created by Tile Styles in Durban. We kept the original plates to display alongside the cutouts for a deconstructed look. And if you’re wondering about the wallpaper, it’s called ‘Near Sighted Print’, available from Hertex Fabrics.
For more contemporary-style animal trophy head displays, see our taxidermy-free ‘Kudu of cool’ CIY.
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Modern take on traditional taxidermy trophy heads
Oh my word! I love these guys! I would put the plates on a wall in my blue kitchen .. and the little deer heads in my bedroom.
How desirable! Definitely in my kitchen!
Gorgeous and unique. I would put this in my entrance hall with a collection of my other blue plates. I love the stag heads.
LOVE! would put them at my fron door and hang my keys on them. and the plates in my kitchen and poke my tea towels through the holes to hang.
I love these! I would put them above my work station at home – the empty wall space is calling!
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I will brighten up my work space cubicle with these beauties to help make it my happy place!
I’d display these above the arch in leading from my lounge to my passage way.
My mother’s crockery is all this particular pattern (willow pattern). These are the plates we ate off growing up and whenever I see the pattern I am reminded of her and our wonderful childhood in general. I would give these to her and I would imagine she would display them on a wall in her kitchen where they will go with her blue and white willow pattern theme
They will be proudly display these beauties in my kitchen.
i would display these above my awesome new wine rack. they would look so beautiful there and since this is the key feature in my small woodstock flat, i think they would add that something extra that i have been looking for. love love love them!
In my french inspired guest room. Everything in the room is white, beige and blue.
Oh man it’s love! i’d hang them in my entrance hall for peeps to be cuted out by when they enter!
I would keep plate half for myself to display on my inherited 60′s wooden dining room server, and gift the cut-out to a friend who loves them as much as I do
These are amazing! They identical to the plates we ate on when I was younger. I would hang them about my royal blue couch in my lounge. I’m planning a make over for that wall and these would be the perfect pieces to start it with!
Geez, this Mother’s day my late mother would be getting this one, but since she has departed fro this earth, I still want it but now my wife has to get it, please. We just move to our new HOUSE & HOME!!
These are lovely! What a unique and clever idea!
The plates remind me of home at my mums. I have been eating roasts off these plates for years! I would love to display a plate amongst my wallplate collection as a window to home, and the little dear in my bedroom!
What a great idea. I am sure many of us have have inherited plates that have chips or missing partners, and this is a great way to give them a new lease of life as a display object.
I have lots of Willow Pattern stuff,I’m a sucker for it! Willow Ware is my fave, I really love collectables and vintage things. Even when I bought my first home, I knew I had to buy Willow Pattern crockery to go with it! I would really love to win the cut out porcelain plate & stag heads & have them placed on the wall above my antique dresser where all my Willow collectives are kept.
“My Willow ware plate has a story.
Pictorial, painted in blue,
From the Land of tea and the tea plant,
And the little brown man with a queue. Whatever the food you serve, romance enters into the feast, if you pay heed to the Legend, of the old China plate from the East.” Love all things Willow…..
My grandparents are from Holland so I have one lonely Delf Birthplate that would look nice in a display on my passage wall along with these lovely plates.
LONELY PLATE NEEDS SOME FRIENDS
oh my goodness, how fabulous are these!
i would most definitely put them in one of the busiest rooms in my house so that people will no doubt be able to see them! i think perhaps in the dining room – i am busy with a little project there where i’m collecting wonderful pieces to mash together on the one wall!
fingers crossed!
These would look so perfect in our foyer!
I have a glass & wooden hanging cupboard filled to capacity with delft plates and crockery. I’ll add the stag head to my collection.
In my kitchen. The fairy tale plates also inspired me to write a story about my fantasy dinner party.
oh in my room all to myself:)
I adore these! In my dining room or kitchen definitely.
On the wall in my dining room! It will look ever so beautiful and be the main topic of conversation at my dinner parties!
Gosh, my Mom would be over the moon is I won this and gave it to her as a mother’s day gift. She has the 40 piece tea set that matches these plates and I know she will display it on the Dining room wall where she normally hosts her tea parties!
In the entrance hall
A cut above indeed!
Really need these little guys to join the rest of our antelope family! Antelope, from all over the world, rule on our walls. They’d fit in so perfectly and feel so at home with all our antelope pictures, paintings and trophies… they even match my heritage!
Exquisite! Hang it with a matching string from the rearview mirror inside my car, turning the tedious heavy traffic commutes into a beautiful panorama!
um…I NEED these! The display above my piano would love to look after these guys
I would hang them on on my accent wall in my dining room, it will be perfect with the eclectic mix of old in new i already have in that room!
Love them! Think they would look amazing in my bathroom, above the porcelain sinks and concrete slab counter, on the hand finished concrete wall. Very deconstructed!
Details make all the difference! Lots of pretty details add up to a warm, cosy atmosphere in my blue kitchen. These will help to make my kitchen a place I enjoy!
Lovely! On my diningroom wall…which I will have to re-paint to suit!
What a clever and novel idea! I just love the cut-out stag heads! I adore deer and wildlife so the stag heads would go perfectly with my vintage deer ornament collection in my retro study. Deer of a horn stick together?
Keep up the amazing decor ideas!!
Love, will hang the plates on my gazebo, the deer heads attach with a string and hang under my lemon tree in my garden, well, that’s where they belong to…:D
Let christmas come early, these will look stylish and my otherwise boring dining room.
we just decorated our bedroom is a Delft blue theme so the plate would look fab there
love them! id turn the stagheads into fridge magnets – to stick up my “to do” and “wish lists”