Are alternating table runners tacky?

Re: Are alternating table runners tacky?

• ohannabelle member

  

  June 2014

  There's nothing wrong with alternating colors on tables.

  
  

  However, if you're doing a palette of navy, mint, and gold, where does burlap begin to fit in? 

  I would get rid of the burlap. It's been done, done again, and overdone. From a design standpoint, it rarely makes sense. Unless you're getting married in a barn, or similarly rustic farm style setting, there's just no reason to include burlap. 

  
  

  Not saying it to be mean, or as a judgement on personal taste, but design should make sense. I don't picture burlap brown blending gracefully with your palette.

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• cupcait927 member

  

  June 2014

  I agree with @ohannaelle

  Your colors sounds absolutely gorgeous and I don't see burlap fitting in very well with all of that. I think half navy and half mint with touches of gold would be very pretty.

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• missteacherlady16 member

  

  June 2014 edited June 2014

  Burlap does come in a wide variety of colors - she can easily get navy, mint, and gold burlap.
  
  I think alternating table runners would look fun - that way every table won't be a carbon copy of the others

  

  
  

  
  

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• monkeysip member

  

  June 2014

  Even if it's colored, I still disagree with the burlap.  It's just a matter of taste, but your colors sound so elegant... and burlap doesn't ever look elegant to me.

  
  

  I agree with pps in that alternating your chosen colors will look pretty.  I'd just stick to 2 of the colors though.

  
  

  Our colors included aqua and purple, so we had alternating aqua and purple runners.

  
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• ohannabelle member

  

  June 2014

  Colored burlap doesn't make sense. (Back to the good design needs to make sense theory.) 

  If burlap makes sense, it's because it's appropriate to the setting, and making a visual statement of unaffected natural fibers, and organic material. Once it's colored, or prettified, or (God forbid) has lace or satin trim, it loses that visual integrity.

   So it may as well be a fabric that feels and smells nice, and doesn't shed nasty little fibers.

  
  

  Again, it all depends on the venue. It might work in a field, or a barn, or a marketplace. It just looks silly in a hotel or modern hall. Just opinion, of course. I might be wrong. I was, once. 

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