# Help settle a dispute--which is tackier? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 18, 2005, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-settle-a-dispute-which-is-tackier/322182 "2005-09-18T03:29:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![racer72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/racer72/32/3075_2.png) [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2005, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-settle-a-dispute-which-is-tackier/322182/21 "2005-09-18T21:16:25Z")
My wife and I have a vase similiar to the one pictured, ours is white and full of dried pussywillow branches. I rate the pictures about the same as black velvet paintings. ewww. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2005, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-settle-a-dispute-which-is-tackier/322182/22 "2005-09-18T22:20:21Z")
The vase is stylish, the inlays are not. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2005, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-settle-a-dispute-which-is-tackier/322182/23 "2005-09-19T02:27:15Z")
The potential tackiness in the vase is in the color. It’s out-of-date. In twenty years, it might be back in, and then it won’t be tacky. Not that I’m horrified by anything in this thread except those mirrors. ---
**Author:** ![Amaranta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Amaranta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amaranta)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2005, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-settle-a-dispute-which-is-tackier/322182/24 "2005-09-19T02:31:49Z")
> [@Fear Itself](#): > > The vase is stylish, the inlays are not. Agreed. I couldn’t supress a shudder when I looked at those inlays. ---
**Author:** ![Caffeine.addict](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f475e1/32.png) [@Caffeine.addict](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caffeine.addict)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2005, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-settle-a-dispute-which-is-tackier/322182/25 "2005-09-19T02:39:28Z")
I don’t think either is tacky per se. I think the vase is ugly and wouldn’t want it in my home. Those inlays are not something I could see having in my home, but maybe in the right context they might not look so bad. Those mirrors are hideous however. **FairyChatMom** how can you sleep with those things in the room? I would have removed those. Torn drywall would be preferable to those things. ---
**Author:** ![cornflakes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@cornflakes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cornflakes)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2005, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-settle-a-dispute-which-is-tackier/322182/26 "2005-09-19T03:21:16Z")
Am I the only one who is thinking of the wagon wheel coffee table from _When Harry Met Sally_? ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2005, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-settle-a-dispute-which-is-tackier/322182/27 "2005-09-19T03:27:34Z")
It depends on the room you are putting the items into that will make them look tacky or great. But I would say that it is easier for the inlaid wood wall hanging to be tacky. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2005, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-settle-a-dispute-which-is-tackier/322182/28 "2005-09-19T03:27:52Z")
I like the vase…hate the inlays. I wear Hawaiian shirts, so what do I know? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![jimpatro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b9e5f3/32.png) [@jimpatro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jimpatro)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2005, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-settle-a-dispute-which-is-tackier/322182/29 "2005-09-19T03:57:16Z")
Like the vase and the inlay piece is uber-tacky. Along the lines of a velvet Elvis painting. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2005, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-settle-a-dispute-which-is-tackier/322182/30 "2005-09-19T04:25:25Z")
The vase is tacky, and so are the inlays. Sorry, but I can’t choose one over the other - I wouldn’t have either in my house willingly. I can’t think of a way to make the gold mirrors un-tacky, either. Have you considered painting them until you can get around to hacking them off the wall, **FairyChatMom**? Maybe a _faux_ curtain to hide them? (I find most Baroque art tacky, too.) ---
**Author:** ![Giant\_Spongess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/94ad74/32.png) [@Giant\_Spongess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giant_Spongess)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2005, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-settle-a-dispute-which-is-tackier/322182/31 "2005-09-19T04:27:25Z")
They’re both horrible, but the vase has brighter colors, therefore is less easy to ignore, so it’s worse. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2005, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-settle-a-dispute-which-is-tackier/322182/32 "2005-09-19T04:39:45Z")
Okay, **FairyChatMom** , I have perused your house some more - all I can say is HOLY FLURKIN’ SCHNITT! What the hell were these people thinking? Were they perhaps blind? Your house must be a vintage 1970’s (or decorated last in the 70’s). My house had bright orange kitchen counters to go with all the shag carpet. :eek: Oh, that chandelier! Set in all that 70’s earth-tones kitsch. Oh my. What’s up with your ceilings? They look like fun-fur. Yup, that’s some house. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2005, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-settle-a-dispute-which-is-tackier/322182/33 "2005-09-19T05:31:49Z")
Okay, update on the gold-veined mirrors - my husband just told me that his parents had something similar in their house when they bought it, but it was a strip of gold-veined mirror alternated with a strip of gold lamé wallpaper with little Dutch boys and stuff on it. I think we have a winner. ---
**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2005, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-settle-a-dispute-which-is-tackier/322182/34 "2005-09-19T06:28:21Z")
It’s the classic vase that you get free from the florist. ---
**Author:** ![Large\_Marge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/50afbb/32.png) [@Large\_Marge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Large_Marge)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2005, 8:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-settle-a-dispute-which-is-tackier/322182/35 "2005-09-19T08:34:56Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > I don’t know that I’d call either tacky of themselves. Now if the inlay was on red velvet or if the vase was filled with plastic tulips, that’s another story. > > But I’ll tell you what tacky is. The wall our bed sits against is covered with [45 gold-veined mirrored tiles](http://groups.msn.com/FairyChatMom/uglyhouse.msnw?action=ShowPhoto&PhotoID=122). We didn’t install them - we just haven’t gotten around to removing them. But they’re decidedly tacky. [small hijack] Wow, your kitchen picture made me recoil from my computer screen, but your back yard is like heaven. How long did it take you to redo the kitchen? Did you leave the countertops? The cupboards? Or did it all go? [/small hijack] ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2005, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-settle-a-dispute-which-is-tackier/322182/36 "2005-09-19T12:02:08Z")
The pictures are tacky, the vase is “sub-plain”. I.e., not only won’t it enhance the looks of the room, it will actually drag it down. Not bad enough to be called “ugly” though. ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2005, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-settle-a-dispute-which-is-tackier/322182/37 "2005-09-19T13:46:13Z")
The vase might be ok filled with fresh flowers in a sunny kitchen window. Or left on the doorstep of that neighbor you hate. 😃 The inlays, however, should be just outlawed! :eek: Y’all don’t let **FCM** fool ya. She and **FCD** _loooooove_ the mirrors over their bed. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2005, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-settle-a-dispute-which-is-tackier/322182/38 "2005-09-19T14:01:33Z")
If I wanted to find a vase like that I may look at **The Pottery Barn, Crate & Barrel, Pier 1 Imports.** If I wanted to find a wood carving like that I would probably go to **Everything’s a Dollar, Dollar Bills, The Dollar Store.** ---
**Author:** ![missbunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/76d3ee/32.png) [@missbunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missbunny)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2005, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-settle-a-dispute-which-is-tackier/322182/39 "2005-09-19T14:03:57Z")
The vase is okay. Depends on what the décor of the room in which it sits is. I think it could look nice as the one bright color in a modern white room, with about three calla lillies in it. The Last Supper inlay is exceedingly tacky no matter where it is. Hideous. The Indian inlay might be tacky - hard to tell without seeing it in person. It does look like a rather cheap pseudo Indian temple thingy, which by default means it’s tacky. Anyone ever see that Goldie Hawn/Chevy Chase movie Foul Play? There’s a scene in there where Goldie “picks up” Dudley Moore, who misunderstands things and takes her back to his bachelor lair, filled with every 70s icon of Tack-O-Rama that ever existed. That’s what FairyChatMom’s mirrored wall reminds me of. ---
**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2005, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-settle-a-dispute-which-is-tackier/322182/40 "2005-09-19T14:05:44Z")
Without being able to touch either object, I don’t see how I can possibly render an opinion as to which is tackier. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-settle-a-dispute-which-is-tackier/322182.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-settle-a-dispute-which-is-tackier/322182.md?page=3)