I have bought a table and sideboard pad. When eating the table pad is covered with a table cloth. My question is what to do with the sideboard. Is the sideboard pad covered with some sort of cloth as well?
The problem with sideboard is that it is not rectangular, i.e. it has some curves to it, and the sideboard pad does follow the curves of the sideboard. . If I get a sideboard cloth should it follow the contours of the sideboard pad? Putting just a table runner on the sideboard pad seems odd because it will only cover the middle portion of the sideboard pad. How about a sideboard cloth that just covers the sideboard pad and then has a lace than hangs off the side? Thanks in advance.
On Sun 20 Nov 2005 09:55:47p, Thus Spake Zarathustra, or was it Jonathan?
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I have bought a table and sideboard pad. When eating the table pad is covered with a table cloth. My question is what to do with the sideboard. Is the sideboard pad covered with some sort of cloth as well?
The problem with sideboard is that it is not rectangular, i.e. it has some curves to it, and the sideboard pad does follow the curves of the sideboard. . If I get a sideboard cloth should it follow the contours of the sideboard pad? Putting just a table runner on the sideboard pad seems odd because it will only cover the middle portion of the sideboard pad. How about a sideboard cloth that just covers the sideboard pad and then has a lace than hangs off the side? Thanks in advance.
The latter seems like the best solution.
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I have bought a table and sideboard pad. When eating the table pad is covered with a table cloth. My question is what to do with the sideboard. Is the sideboard pad covered with some sort of cloth as well?
The problem with sideboard is that it is not rectangular, i.e. it has some curves to it, and the sideboard pad does follow the curves of the sideboard. . If I get a sideboard cloth should it follow the contours of the sideboard pad? Putting just a table runner on the sideboard pad seems odd because it will only cover the middle portion of the sideboard pad. How about a sideboard cloth that just covers the sideboard pad and then has a lace than hangs off the side? Thanks in advance.
Realistically, I would leave the sideboard cover on for day to day use and then take it off for holidays and when company is over.
If you are so afraid of using something that it stays covered then I do not think one should buy it.
IMHO furniture if to use and look at - I do not believe in hiding what I own.
Realistically, I would leave the sideboard cover on for day to day use and then take it off for holidays and when company is over.
If we put hot dishes on the sideboard it will damage it. That is why we need the sideboard pad. Are you saying the don't bother putting cover on the sideboard pad?
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If you are so afraid of using something that it stays covered then I do not think one should buy it.
IMHO furniture if to use and look at - I do not believe in hiding what I own.
The sideboard pad and cover are taken off when there are no dishes on it.
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Realistically, I would leave the sideboard cover on for day to day use and then take it off for holidays and when company is over.
If we put hot dishes on the sideboard it will damage it. That is why we need the sideboard pad. Are you saying the don't bother putting cover on the sideboard pad?
trivet [TRIHV-iht] A short-legged (or otherwise raised) stand used to support hot dishes and protect the surface of a table.
Realistically, I would leave the sideboard cover on for day to day use and then take it off for holidays and when company is over.
If we put hot dishes on the sideboard it will damage it. That is why we need the sideboard pad. Are you saying the don't bother putting cover on the sideboard pad?
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If you are so afraid of using something that it stays covered then I do not think one should buy it.
IMHO furniture if to use and look at - I do not believe in hiding what I own.
The sideboard pad and cover are taken off when there are no dishes on it.
There are very attractive trivets available.
I have a custom made beveled glass to fit the top of my credenza, but still I use the trivets. I detest table pads, not only are they very tacky, for what they are they're very expensive.
On Mon 21 Nov 2005 02:35:17p, Dimitri wrote in rec.food.cooking:
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I detest table pads, not only are they very tacky, for what they are they're very expensive.
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Sheldon
Amen to that - Tacky Tacky, Tacky - about the same as a plastic covered sofa.
Dimitri
What's tacky about a table pad if it's covered in an heirloom tablecloth?
Anything covering a sideboard/credenza is tacky... like the church feed... may as well use a paper table cover over a pair of saw horses and a sheet of plywood to set out the mac n' cheese and tray of balogna on white with yaller musturd.
Heirloom schmeirloom... strictly emotional kitch... a tablecloth containing valuable wine stains as would be found at any yard sale for 50¢... a schmata.
On Mon 21 Nov 2005 02:35:17p, Dimitri wrote in rec.food.cooking:
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"Sheldon" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...
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I detest table pads, not only are they very tacky, for what they are they're very expensive.
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Sheldon
Amen to that - Tacky Tacky, Tacky - about the same as a plastic covered sofa.
Dimitri
What's tacky about a table pad if it's covered in an heirloom tablecloth?
Anything covering a sideboard/credenza is tacky... like the church feed... may as well use a paper table cover over a pair of saw horses and a sheet of plywood to set out the mac n' cheese and tray of balogna on white with yaller musturd.
Heirloom schmeirloom... strictly emotional kitch... a tablecloth containing valuable wine stains as would be found at any yard sale for 50¢... a schmata.
"Sheldon" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...
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I detest table pads, not only are they very tacky, for what they are they're very expensive.
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Sheldon
Amen to that - Tacky Tacky, Tacky - about the same as a plastic covered sofa.
Dimitri
Youse guys are nutz. Table pads are required, especially if you have a lovely antique table with the original finish, and small persons to share meals at said table. My grandmother, my mom, me ... we all have used table pads. We don't leave them on the table "naked," we take them off as soon as the tablecloth comes off. Then we can put the crocheted table runner on that our Great Aunt Mary made about 75 years ago, get out the silver candlesticks and a bowl or epergne, and "dress" the table for non-meal hours. I certainly wouldn't want any white rings from hot dishes, or careless spills ruining the finish of the table top. I've never met a "company dinner" trivet yet that was worth using ... too slippery, too thin, too casual. With table pads, esepcially if they are custom made to fit the table, the hostess doesn't have to worry about who put what where, or did someone slightly spill their wine or water.
"Sheldon" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...
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I detest table pads, not only are they very tacky, for what they are they're very expensive.
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Sheldon
Amen to that - Tacky Tacky, Tacky - about the same as a plastic covered sofa.
Dimitri
Youse guys are nutz. Table pads are required, especially if you have a lovely antique table with the original finish, and small persons to share meals at said table. My grandmother, my mom, me ... we all have used table pads. We don't leave them on the table "naked," we take them off as soon as the tablecloth comes off. Then we can put the crocheted table runner on that our Great Aunt Mary made about 75 years ago, get out the silver candlesticks and a bowl or epergne, and "dress" the table for non-meal hours. I certainly wouldn't want any white rings from hot dishes, or careless spills ruining the finish of the table top. I've never met a "company dinner" trivet yet that was worth using ... too slippery, too thin, too casual. With table pads, esepcially if they are custom made to fit the table, the hostess doesn't have to worry about who put what where, or did someone slightly spill their wine or water.
"Sheldon" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...
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I detest table pads, not only are they very tacky, for what they are they're very expensive.
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Sheldon
Amen to that - Tacky Tacky, Tacky - about the same as a plastic covered sofa.
Nonsense. In the first place, they provide excellent protection for the fine table underneath, whether it's the dining table or the sideboard. Their cost is minimal compared to what it would cost to refinish a table. In the second place, table pads are never seen because they are always under a cloth. When the need for their protection is gone, they are removed. Never seen, they can hardly be called tacky. -aem
"Sheldon" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...
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I detest table pads, not only are they very tacky, for what they are they're very expensive.
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Sheldon
Amen to that - Tacky Tacky, Tacky - about the same as a plastic covered sofa.
Nonsense. In the first place, they provide excellent protection for the fine table underneath, whether it's the dining table or the sideboard. Their cost is minimal compared to what it would cost to refinish a table. In the second place, table pads are never seen because they are always under a cloth. When the need for their protection is gone, they are removed. Never seen, they can hardly be called tacky. -aem
"Sheldon" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...
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I detest table pads, not only are they very tacky, for what they are they're very expensive.
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Sheldon
Amen to that - Tacky Tacky, Tacky - about the same as a plastic covered sofa.
Dimitri
Youse guys are nutz. Table pads are required, especially if you have a lovely antique table with the original finish, and small persons to share meals at said table. My grandmother, my mom, me ... we all have used table pads. We don't leave them on the table "naked," we take them off as soon as the tablecloth comes off. Then we can put the crocheted table runner on that our Great Aunt Mary made about 75 years ago, get out the silver candlesticks and a bowl or epergne, and "dress" the table for non-meal hours. I certainly wouldn't want any white rings from hot dishes, or careless spills ruining the finish of the table top. I've never met a "company dinner" trivet yet that was worth using ... too slippery, too thin, too casual. With table pads, esepcially if they are custom made to fit the table, the hostess doesn't have to worry about who put what where, or did someone slightly spill their wine or water.
A sideboard shouldn't be used to set out food for guests to help themselves... it's for storing dinnerware and table linens and for setting out extra dinnerware, carving/serving ware, and a place to momentarilly set the courses at the ready as they arrive from the kitchen just before serving the formal table. I think you're cobbling together a help yourself church feed with a formal sit down dinner... verrry tacky. Typically help yourselves affairs are conducted in a far less formal setting (a garden, a great room, a den), not in a formal dining room. And there are plenty of very elegant trivets and salvers one can employ for setting out hot casserols, turreens, and platters... you're just not going to find them at the Dollar Store.
