Table Cloths - old fashioned?

Well, DH has just given in and gone to sit in more comfort to watch David Attenborough! 😃

Callistemon21

We're sitting at the kitchen table having a glass of Sauvignon Blanc while we wait for dinner 🙂 --because I miscalculated the cooking time and forgot the hour change--

I so dislike time change, miscalculations for a month!

MrsKen33

Each to his or her own Norah

I know. Life is good, each may do as they wish!

We're sitting at the kitchen table having a glass of Sauvignon Blanc while we wait for dinner 🙂 because I miscalculated the cooking time and forgot the hour change

Each to his or her own Norah

MrsKen33

Our kitchen table can seat six and our dining table , at its full extent twelve. We always eat at the table and so do most people we know.

We eat on trays, on the kitchen sofa near a fireplace, occasionally, or if we ever eat alone. I think it's fun and cosy.

Our kitchen table can seat six and our dining table , at its full extent twelve. We always eat at the table and so do most people we know.

I use a table cloth on the kitchen table where we normally eat. Not on the good dining room table unless it's in use. Then I also use a table protector under it.

We always sit at the table for our evening meal. Breakfast is at the breakfast bar in the kitchen and lunch is wherever, often outside or breakfast bar again. I don’t really like laptop meals but if it is a special news day, like the Queen’s funeral or something, we might so we can watch tv. Funny ,all my children are the same.

Just done a count. We have two dining tables and four other tables, that could just possibly be sat round as dining tables.

Casdon

I don’t know anybody who doesn’t have a dining table (or more), I suppose there must be some who don’t, but surely it’s a basic for the vast majority still - tables go back millennia, I can’t see them disappearing from use?

Nor do I know anyone without tableS, islands, places to eat.

I don’t know anybody who doesn’t have a dining table (or more), I suppose there must be some who don’t, but surely it’s a basic for the vast majority still - tables go back millennia, I can’t see them disappearing from use?

I rarely eat on my lap. I hate it.

Our children both have dining tables and eat at a table, as do our DGC.

Apart from anything else a table has so many other uses, opening and wrapping parcels, craft and DIY activities, board games, piling things on. I just couldn't do without a dining table (or two)

We use table cloths or not. It depends.

We've a beautiful oak table in a bit of the kitchen, no cloth ever - no need to protect oak that has aged over 200 years - by my count. I wax that table often.

In fireplace end of kitchen is a 1950s "pub table" small square dark oak sort with pull out ends, allowing it to seat 6-8 instead of just 4 people. Sometimes we use cork backed mats.

Two islands, each with stools on a side. One has granite top and the other has repurposed old Austrian walnut top - no cloths.

The dining hall has 2 old walnut tables, I wax those tables, use damask cloths or not depending. I don't like to iron, china looks nice on wood.

The only food we might eat on our lap is if we have a pudding or fruit because we don't eat it straight after dinner.

Or a piece of Victoria sponge 😁
I'm really going to have to go and make one

My dining table is covered in crochet squares which I keep re-arranging, Witzend

watermeadow

Not only table cloths but dining tables are also very old fashioned. Most families seem to eat off their laps now.
When I ask old (70+) friends to tea I get out my tea set because they like cups and saucers and I make that most boring of cakes, a Victoria sponge.
In between whiles it’s a mug of coffee for me.

Since when are dining tables old fashioned? And how very dare you say that a Victoria sponge is ‘boring’? 😱 My usual one (with blackcurrant jam, no cream) always vanishes PDQ.

As for dining tables, dh and I do often have trays on laps, but when anyone else is here (inc. most recently 3 young Gdcs) the dining table is used for every meal.

nandad

watermeadow

Not only table cloths but dining tables are also very old fashioned. Most families seem to eat off their laps now.
When I ask old (70+) friends to tea I get out my tea set because they like cups and saucers and I make that most boring of cakes, a Victoria sponge.
In between whiles it’s a mug of coffee for me.

Unconscious ageism and rather rude.
My husband is 74, most of the members of my book group are over 70, not a cup and saucer in sight. I’m the one most likely to use them and I’m 61. As to Victoria Sponge it’s the biggest seller at our fete and most cakes are purchased by the under 50s.

It is very rude!!

A china cup and saucer and china dinner services - most popular at weddings now, I believe and in the increasingly popular vintage afternoon tea rooms, enjoyed by young and old!

I do prefer tea in a china mug, though, perhaps because I'm ancient.
And I do like Victoria sponge but never make one now

watermeadow

Not only table cloths but dining tables are also very old fashioned. Most families seem to eat off their laps now.
When I ask old (70+) friends to tea I get out my tea set because they like cups and saucers and I make that most boring of cakes, a Victoria sponge.
In between whiles it’s a mug of coffee for me.

Unconscious ageism and rather rude.
My husband is 74, most of the members of my book group are over 70, not a cup and saucer in sight. I’m the one most likely to use them and I’m 61. As to Victoria Sponge it’s the biggest seller at our fete and most cakes are purchased by the under 50s.

I can only remember ever using one - when we had more guests for Christmas than would fit round the dining table, so the garden table was dusted off and brought in, and covered with a Christmas tablecloth that had been a present ages before and never used - too small for our table anyway.

Though last year I did buy a very Christmassy ‘wipeable’ one for dd and family - to fit her long extended kitchen table that seats 12, many of whom are often messy young children.

I use tablecloths everyday. I also like poly-cotton but looking in John Lewis last year there were mostly wipeable cloths on offer.

We have two dining tables. The one in the kitchen/family room is Ercol so the table top is protected with a layer of foam table protector and a sturdy plastic cloth on top. It is on their permanently and can be wiped clean after every meal. It means I never have to worry about DH casually dumping piles of tools on it.

We have a dinng hall with an antique table and chairs. This is laid out at Christmas and for big family occasions. Again it has a foam protector on it and then what tablecloth it has depends on the occasion. I have a beautiful Christmas cloth, which I made from Christmas fabric bought in John Lewis in the 1980s, but also a couple of other ones, nothing special for other occasions.

Occasionally when DD is with us we have a 'dainty afternoon tea' in the living room with a beautiful lace tea cloth on the coffee table, a lovely delicate antique porcelain tea service, and silver tea cutlery.

Yes we also eat at our dining table every evening and I love tablecloths. I have everyday ones and some beautifully made which I use when friends come for a meal. Most of our friends when we visit use their dining rooms, guess it is an age thing!

I still have white table cloth

I had a friend for lunch today who was very surprised when I led her to the dining room. She said she could not remember the last time she had eaten in one within a home. We eat at a table every evening, finding it very uncomfortable to eat food on ones lap and it does promote conversation.

I have many table cloths, some beautifully embroidered but alas never used these days, we just have mats.

I have a big drawer full of table cloths and linen napkins. We use the kitchen table mostly to eat and have table cloths for that. The dining room table has a long runner, but we use it mostly for our computers or crafts. At Christmas ,I have to enormous cloths for it. One with mistletoe and one with Holly. I just love to use them. We used to have a large drawn thread cloth made by DH’s grandma. Sadly that has disintegrated but I have bits of it.