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.
The vase is stylish, the inlays are not.
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 It’s out-of-date.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.
Agreed. I couldn’t supress a shudder when I looked at those inlays.
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.
Am I the only one who is thinking of the wagon wheel coffee table from When Harry Met Sally?
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.
I like the vase…hate the inlays.
I wear Hawaiian shirts, so what do I know? 
Like the vase and the inlay piece is uber-tacky. Along the lines of a velvet Elvis painting.
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.)
They’re both horrible, but the vase has brighter colors, therefore is less easy to ignore, so it’s worse.
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.
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.
It’s the classic vase that you get free from the florist.
[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]
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.
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. 
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.
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.
Without being able to touch either object, I don’t see how I can possibly render an opinion as to which is tackier.