Replace existing dinner service or buy new?

Mine is all white, China. Replaced cereal bowls & added salad plates, buying white China ones from tkmaxx

I'd buy second hand as most of the new stuff is made in China - even the big name stuff

I love china. Unfortunately, my wedding china Denby Gipsy Rose is still going strong nearly 50 years later. I treated myself to some Royal Copenhagen Blue Denmark a few years ago. They were extortionate (to me) but I decided I'm worth it. They give me pleasure every day.

Go to any half decent charity shop or auction room - they can’t give dinner services away!

For goodness sake, unless you are skint, treat yourself to some nice quality new pottery that you can enjoy each and every day

I started buying denby after I was widowed and it is so nice to see and to use. Gives me pleasure.

That arcopol or pyrex, I had some in the old days but it all went out, all the bits and pieces, very old fashioned. I replaced with a couple of better brands and now have only denby regency green

Aveline, my wedding present china was Pink Denmark. I love it still, fifty four years on, having added the odd replacement from charity shops.

Have you tried Ebay?
Many years ago I stayed in a beautiful holiday cottage where the owner had fitted it out with Portmerion in every shape or form possible.It must have cost an absolute fortune. I fell in love with it and when I got home was shocked to find how expensive it was. I eventually found several items on Ebay at a reasonable price and collected a set over a few weeks without breaking the bank
They still make me happy every time I put them on the table.

I still have some Denby Green wheat, as old as the hills as well as the white with the green edge which name escapes me.
I have some Arabesque but that is a coffee set and some mugs, rather a nice shape.

I used to have the Arabesque coffee pot and those shapely mugs UTBB.

Just looked on EBay and suggest you have a look too, Aprilrose. Lots of dinner plates waiting for you to buy them.

Usedtobeblonde

I still have some Denby Green wheat, as old as the hills as well as the white with the green edge which name escapes me.
I have some Arabesque but that is a coffee set and some mugs, rather a nice shape.

White with green edge is Greenwich. We have have it, enough for eight place settings in dinner, tea, tea pot, jugs and serving dishes. It’s at least 30 years old and survives the dish washer. I don’t think I’ll ever need to buy any more.

I am clumsy. The last everyday dinner service that I bought in Dunelm is black and white polka dot. Since then I top up with anything else black and/or white that I come across. I have quite a mixture now, but at least it follows a colour scheme.

Salti your black and white mixture sounds like it works really well!

I bought our dinner service, with guidance from our daughter, for our 20th wedding anniversary: china, in 1997.
It's from the Churchill "Ports of Call" by Jeff Banks range, design name "Kabul."
The range was discontinued when the war in Afghanistan broke out.

Since then we've mainly lost some of the dinner plates and I've replaced them with plain white ones, from Morrisons, which look ok!

Since a relative told me she disliked eating her dinner from a patterned plate, it made me think and I've tended to go for plain white china but must admit I'm getting rather bored with it now.

When we first married, my mother felt sorry for us because no-one bought us a dinner service so she bought us a Johnson Brothers Snow White complete set and tea service too. It lasted for years but some pieces got broken and others faded in the dishwasher. The rest went to the charity shop. Now I see that just one cup and saucer is for sale on Etsy for £35 😲

I get replacements for my 1970s Wedgwood set from eBay.

Ihada dinner service which I hadn't used in30 years it was a wedding gift,1962, I never liked it from the word go byt did use it. My friend's daughter has it now, she loves it as it's "vintage". (
My boys didn't want it)

I have a fondness for all crockery. I mix all sorts of pieces at a meal. Seasonal dishes are particularly attractive, in my opinion.

Perhaps Ebay? I note lots of crockery offers on Ebay.

eBay is excellent for matching up out-of-production china. Round here, charity shops will not take dinner services any more - there's no market for them, or space in the shops.

I won't use chipped dinnerware and don't like mismatched unless it is seriously mismatched and creatively done. I don't believe in keeping things for best so we have a mid-price dinner service we use all the time. It's off white porcelain, very plain, but lovely quality from Maxwell Williams which is available from lots of places. When we were more skint we used M&S everyday dinner sets. I think it depends very much on your aesthetics and your budget. Nothing wrong with charity shop stuff if you like it. I often kitted out my home from them in the past and still use them for quality glassware. My gorgeous trifle bowl is a charity shop find.

In my younger days I had portmerion and Denby. Teenagers washing up broke a lot. Wemoved onto ikea white crockery, cheap easily replaced. Not beautiful

concepthousewares.co.uk
This site has Corelle products that are light weight.
Hope it helps.

I buy all my China from charity shops. I can afford new but prefer to recycle. As long as its blue in colour it's OK or blue and white. It goes straight in the dishwasher same as all hotel, cafe or restaurant china.
I think you should list for sale the pieces you have and buy some more china with the money.

Get a new one!

All my crockery is mismatched.
Some are chipped, some not,

I really don’t care as I don’t entertain.
Does anyone nowadays have dinner parties?