White tablecloths let you know you are dining out; red-striped kitchen-towel napkins conjure a casual, comfort food feel.
In the kitchen-have napkins and clean glasses for both drinking and wine.
Also on sale are Mozart golf balls, coffee cups, snow globes, key chains, kitchen matches, paper napkins, sausage, yogurt, coffee, tea, wine, underwear and T-shirts though the latter don't yet seem to be out-selling the ones of a road sign picturing a familiar marsupial and the legend, "No Kangaroos in Austria".
Kitchen towels serve as napkins.
Vintage tablecloths, napkins and kitchen towels seem perfect matches for comfort-food dinners of meatloaf or macaroni and cheese.
Saints dance through the conversation and spring up on kitchen utensils, place mats, napkins ("There used to be potholders with St. Damien and the lepers," says one woman searching drawers; "Yes," says the other, "and I don't know what's happened to those lepers lately") -- and doves descend on the pair as they swap vows to prepare funeral breakfasts for one another when the end comes.
A bit of landscaping was done here, some robes were hung in an immense bathroom over there, and there was even an elaborate picnic spread arranged in a basket on the kitchen table, complete with checkered napkins and cutlery.
If buyers don't have time to decorate, Mr. Manson said, they can choose from a variety of furniture packages and accessories, including "everything from table cutlery to napkins in the kitchen ready to use".
If buying tablecloths, cloth napkins, or other kitchen linens, choose ones that are washable and easy to care for and maintain.
Try this trick at home: Have a friend remove an object from a room you know well--say, a napkin holder from your kitchen--and then see if you can guess what he's taken away.
