Where Do You Store All Those Dishes? Part 4

It's time for Show and Tell Friday hosted by Cindy over at My Romantic Home.
Join all the participants as they show and tell about their lives.

It started with a post about my kitchen four weeks ago on Show and Tell Friday showing where my vintage Fiesta is now displayed. The vintage Fiesta was in a glass front display closet in the pantry hall, but that's all changed and other things are now on the move too.

Vintage Fiesta Post

Then I showed you where my "good dishes" now hang out.
Part 1 Post

And a corner cabinet that functions as a kind of transition solution,

when things are moving about. Part 2 Post

Last week I showed you the antique pine store fixture that holds a lot of

dinnerware and accessories in the Part 3 Post

Main Entry: store
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: collect and put aside
Synonyms: accumulate, amass, bank, cache, clear away, clear up, cumulate, keep, keep in reserve, lay away, lay up, lock away, lock up, mothball, pack away, put away, put by, put in order, reserve, salt away, save, save for rainy day, sock away, squirrel, stack away, stash, stash away, stockpile, store away, stow, stow away, tidy, tidy away, tidy up, warehouse

Some of the synonyms for "to store" sound a bit "obsessive" ...... well yeah, I'm guilty! There was a plan when we designed our retirement home out in the boonies of the San Francisco Bay Area. We bought the land in 2004, spent a year permitting the land and construction details, built in 2006 and moved in the last week of October 2006.

I had a plan for where everything would go and implemented said plan as we moved over several months time from our prior home about 40 miles away. Then about six months ago I started reconfiguring where things "lived" in the new house. It's a classic pattern for me. The actual living in a house for a couple of years, generally dictates where things should really be.

This is one of two closets that sit across from the large store fixture I showed you last week.  This closet is where I used to have all the vintage Fiesta that is now in the kitchen on display.  I had the builder leave the two closets finished, but empty of shelves and added Metropolitan wire racks.  One of the advantages to these racks is that the shelves can be reconfigured as needs change and additional shelves can also be purchased seperately if you want to add them.

I'll show you the other closet next week, but for now here's some of the overflow of current production Fiesta that I use for everyday dinnerware.  I keep about 2 dozen place settings in the kitchen cabinets, but rotate colors and combinations from this closet as the seasons change.  These colors have all been produced since the reintroduction of Fiesta in 1986, although some of them have been discontinued or were limited edition colors produced for only a short period of time.

For those of you who are ardent collectors there is one piece of vintage Fiesta that keeps watch over these new colors, the 12" Turquoise vintage vase to the far left of the top shelf.  Collectors may also notice the lack of any Peacock.  I have only 3 or 4 pieces of this color which is the only Post 86 color I do NOT like.  You can see a list of all the Fiesta colors in a timeline post from last fall. Fiesta® Dinnerware Color Chronology

The framed Fiesta ephemera above the top shelf is l. to r.: article in Country Collectibles on my collection and my remodelled kitchen in the old house, a photo produced for sale by the HLCCA, and a vintage Ensemble Ad.

Next week I'll show you the other built in closet to the left of this one ...... it's pretty disorganized with mostly odd pieces of other lines produced by the Homer Laughlin China Company over the years.  Maybe I'll get inspired and tidy it up a bit for its photo op!

Be sure to stop by my tablescape post for Foodie Friday, to see some of these dishes in action.

Woodland Garden and Chicken Piccata