why do people use those oilcloth tablecloths?

[MacaroonIncident]

why not have a table you can show off

[MacaroonIncident]

(they always look a bit grimy to me)

[LadyGlencoraPalliser]

Have you been snooping round my house?

[MagNacarta]

Oh, I'm with you - our wooden table tells a story of our lives since we got it 10 years ago. Small indentations where the dc's would bang things when they were babies, a burn mark from candles during a dinner party etc. No oil cloth for me.

[Blu]

We have a VERY nice table top on our expensive (for us)Habitat table, but as we only have one table to serve all purposes, the oilcloth (it might not be genuine oilcloth) makes a good everyday surface to protect it from all DS's activities, stains, burns, scratches etc etc.

And it isn't sticky or grimy, I don't think.

[notcitrus]

Are you offering to buy me a dining table?
Fab! [goes to look at catalogues...]

Our very practical extending oak table was battered when my parents bought it in 1975 and doesn't look better now. We do have a cloth-cloth for special occasions, though.

[Blu]

When I had an old pine tabletop, it absorbed what came it's way - it looked good 'distressed'.
Our current table would just look 'ruined'!

[Hassled]

It's to make the house look like a Laura Ashley showroom. Which is what we all aspire to, as I'm sure you know.

Plus, it avoids felt-pen on wood incidents.

[gatheringstones]

cos we're idiots and bought a table with a glass top - it was hard work pre kids with smearing. now i shudder to think! also v noisy and ours need no help in the din at dinner stakes.

[ButtercupWafflehead]

Where do you all buy these oilcloths of which you speak?

(I can only find old-lady floral/tartan ones )

[BodenGroupie]

Cath Kidston or John Lewis by the metre....I need to get out more

[MacaroonIncident]

£125

ikea
binnable when knackered

[TheProvincialLady]

It's because they come pre-greased and with a bag full of sticky crumbs, so you don't need to go to the trouble of doing it yourself.

[MadameCastafiore]

or that Dunelm Mill place.

[gatheringstones]

have you seen how much that cheeky mare kidston charges for oil cloth? £20 a meter! shocking! why doesn't ikea do it?
grump.

[MacaroonIncident]

beacuse its naff?

[ButtercupWafflehead]

really? are they gross, then?

[MacaroonIncident]

they are a bit middle aged arent they?
a bit Joanna trollope

[MagNacarta]

nafferoony

[ButtercupWafflehead]

Are actual cloth ones alright in the fashion stakes?

Or do tables have to be naked?

[DontCallMeBaby]

Because I quite like having a bright red table with white polka dots, and find the idea of spending £125 on a table and 'binning it when it's knackered' far FAR naffer.

[AnybodyHomeMcFly]

£4 from Tiger, bargain and pretty!
I bought it after DS (2.5) spilled milk for the umpteenth time and it went in between the glass and wood again = a bugger to clean.

[MacaroonIncident]

LOOK AT Joianna trollopes hair

that is YOU that is

[AnybodyHomeMcFly]

Oh and it's a cheap ikea table too but it's the cleaning which is tricky

[MacaroonIncident]

lol at buttercup

i like em in leggings

[MagNacarta]

Its no different to covering your sofa in plastic. Very wrong.