There is something so beautiful about the way photographs, images and objects are hung on the walls in traditional rooms in Greece. The objects have pride of place but there’s also something casual and not precious about the way they accumulate. The variety of frames is appealing, and so is the way shapshots are crowded into a single frame. Vintage family portraits in black and white are mixed with cheap colour prints, and somehow it looks artful. The first two photographs were taken on Rhodes; I’m not sure about the third. They were all taken by George Grigoriou, whose postcards of Greece often show interiors of houses and kafeneions (blog here). Other design features here are the pebbled floor and the tilted hanging of mirrors in the Rhodes cafe, below, and the practice of painting a sort of wainscot section of wall in cafes, to just above table height, as seen in the photo at bottom. But the best thing is the display of photos flanked by hundreds of plates in the Rhodes interior at top, and its enviable yellow built-in cabinet with dot detail.

Tags: cafe, decor, decorative plates, DIY, framed photographs, Greece, Greek, Greeks, Grigoriou, interior, interior design, photographs, photos, picture gallery, postcards, Rhodes, Rodos, stained glass, stone floor

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