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Location: TEXAS | Fixing to build a new house and need some good ideas. Want the mater bedroom to be western but romantic......any ideas on paint or wallpaper? |
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| I just re-did my bedroom with this theme and I love it!! It sounds a little drastic but it looks cool- I painted 3 walls a deep cream color and one wall RED. Around the border of the red wall I used calk/nails to attach a rope(as in a calf rope), it looks really neat. To tie the rope in with the rest of the room I took some ropes that my friend didnt like the feel of so they were not dirty and used hot glue to make them into baskets, picture frames, and accent on a mirror. I really love my room now. |
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| I have an old time Bordello room named Lori Darling from Lonesome Dove. I have papered one wall in really expensive small floral print, have a huge old time bed, Put old barn looking wood on the wall behind the bed and ran kick board up about 1 1/2 ft. to resemble where the cowboys would pull their boots off to jump in the sack with the Lady of the room. I have an old time rocker with old style lingerie thrown over for effect. The lamps have beaded dangly trim and the curtains are lace. It is a fun room. My entire house is done in old west. Really cheap to do. |
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Location: where the roosters crow at dawn | Hi, we have re-done our whole house with a western theme. I think that red's and sage greens are very romatic in a classy floral for the bed. The walls could look very nice in a tan, toffee, maybe with a faux- color wash. The rope idea is GREAT. You could accent it with small silk red rose buds. The bedding could be a mix of very feminine with a touch of the west. Such as a floral or soft fabric for the duvet, and a stripe, or plaid for the bed skirt, then add a lot of pillows in the bedding fabrics and throw in some accent pillows. Like a nice velvet pillow, with silver accents or leather pillows. I also thought another neat idea would be a room in red, black and yellowish-gold. You could use sheer fabric for the windows, Red and White. Gold colored walls, same ideas for the bed, but the whole room could be accented with vintage cowgirl pinup art. |
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Location: Harrisonville MO | I painted my bedroom red and bought black iron rodeo hangings like a barrel racer, bull rider, etc. Everyone who sees the room loves it. White woodwork, black furniture (I painted it) and black comforter and curtains. |
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Location: Beautiful Badlands | Hi We just remodeled our entire home over the winter..it has always been western themed but needed updating. I painted several rooms, including the master bedroom with that super cool suede paint in a buckskin color, it honestly looks just like suede. I also used peices of chamois skin for doillies on dresses etc. plus a pretty cattle drive wall paper border in earth tones. The furniture in that bedroom is all log. My favorite wall is in our living room is one big wall of blood-orange suede paint with the rest of the walls a pale apricot, the suede wall works really great to show off part of our western art collection and the fire place. There are so many neat western things for your home now! Have fun and good luck.
Edited by wwfh 2004-03-29 1:28 PM
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Location: Washington State | I have a huge wagon wheel suspended from my ceiling in the bedroom. The electric light is in the center of it, and all around it are real candles. Just depends on what I'm doing in there as to how might light I need. Everyone loves the wheel. Then I have smaller wagon wheels on the walls that are picture frames.
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Location: Somewhere Down in Texas | I love the red Idea, a dark burnt orangish red. And defanatly the cowgirl pinup part, I also like the non tradiotional abstract rodeo art. Also I don't know if you've heard of Henri Peter he's a south American artist who does some really cool stuff. Click on http://www.henripeter.com/ to view some of his art.
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Location: where the roosters crow at dawn | OOOHHHH the wagon wheel with the candles sounds so beautiful, and very romantic. For other light fixture ideas the HOME DEPOT has a line of western type light fixtures. Also e-bay usually has vintage cowboy-western themed light fixtures. They are usually from the 50's some have small chips and a little paint missing. love is in the air....... |
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Location: Harrisonville MO | I got a lot of the stuff I did my room in off of ebay |
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| I did my living room in brown paper bag, which looks like leather on the walls, one wall is painted in Chili color (red) then We tore down a old barn on our place, one wall is in barn wood. |
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Location: I'm lost - please tell me, I'm not on BHW again!!! | I wish I had a room or house to paint! 
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Location: Texas | Originally written by wwfh on 2004-03-29 1:24 PM Hi We just remodeled our entire home over the winter..it has always been western themed but needed updating. I painted several rooms, including the master bedroom with that super cool suede paint in a buckskin color, it honestly looks just like suede. I also used peices of chamois skin for doillies on dresses etc. plus a pretty cattle drive wall paper border in earth tones. The furniture in that bedroom is all log. My favorite wall is in our living room is one big wall of blood-orange suede paint with the rest of the walls a pale apricot, the suede wall works really great to show off part of our western art collection and the fire place. There are so many neat western things for your home now! Have fun and good luck. We just redid our house too...we used the Ralph Loren suede paint as well...in our bedroom we used the "doeskin gray" color which is a dark tan and along the bottom of the walls we put tin (like you'd put on the side of your barn) with a cedar border. It looks really good! My bed is a 4 poster cedar log bed. My husband also framed out all the door ways in cedar planks. I have a couple of western paintings hanging up and some old barnwood stuff. I also have a lamp made out of a cedar post with a leather shade. It looks good! I hope this give you a few ideas! |
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Location: Beautiful Badlands | Center Alley! I love the tin idea! I like unique decorating styles and I bet that looks awesome. Thank you for sharing. |
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Location: Fort Polk Louisiana | I wanna see pictures!!!!!!!!  |
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Location: KS | What I'm planning to do in our living room on one wall is log it. At Home Depot they have log cabin siding to do outside of homes, well I think it would look so awesome inside. Plus it insulates as well. Now if I could just get hubby to do it!! |
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Location: Carpenter, WY | I just finished my husbands bathroom in 2 shades of denim blue and then a terra cotta red on one wall. Hung up some pictures of horses he's roped on over the years and it looks like a 'guys room.' I have a big bag of brown leather pieces left over from some re-upholsty project that I was going to pad and then cover the window cornice with. I was thinking of overlapping, fringing some pieces and sticking some conchos on. Found a indoor-outdoor rug with boots on it and boot curtain shower holders and it turned out pretty cute. Our house is 'farm/cowboy' and really needs to be taken room by room and redone. |
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Location: TEXAS | WOW......thanks everyone........those are some awesome ideas. Can any of you email me pictures? We are trying to decide on things now.......fixing to lay the slab this month. Also any other ideas would be great. I live in Tx so of course its a western house. Living Rooms Ideas? Laudry? Guest Bath? Office? Any creative ideas that I can do for these rooms that when people come in they will be blown away.......I want something that no one has around here.....:) Thanks everyone. |
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Location: TEXAS | Originally written by canchaser57 on 2004-03-29 12:57 PM
I have an old time Bordello room named Lori Darling from Lonesome Dove. I have papered one wall in really expensive small floral print, have a huge old time bed, Put old barn looking wood on the wall behind the bed and ran kick board up about 1 1/2 ft. to resemble where the cowboys would pull their boots off to jump in the sack with the Lady of the room. I have an old time rocker with old style lingerie thrown over for effect. The lamps have beaded dangly trim and the curtains are lace. It is a fun room. My entire house is done in old west. Really cheap to do. OHHHHH.......I just rewatched Lonesome Dove......your ideas sound really neat. You say your house is done in OLD WEST.......explain more things. |
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Location: TEXAS | Originally written by wwfh on 2004-03-29 1:24 PM Hi We just remodeled our entire home over the winter..it has always been western themed but needed updating. I painted several rooms, including the master bedroom with that super cool suede paint in a buckskin color, it honestly looks just like suede. I also used peices of chamois skin for doillies on dresses etc. plus a pretty cattle drive wall paper border in earth tones. The furniture in that bedroom is all log. My favorite wall is in our living room is one big wall of blood-orange suede paint with the rest of the walls a pale apricot, the suede wall works really great to show off part of our western art collection and the fire place. There are so many neat western things for your home now! Have fun and good luck. Wanted to ask you about doing one wall one color and another a different color. My house will have one BIG room with the LR and DR and Kitchen. The left side wall will be the shortest and the right side will be the longest.......it will go into the DR. Do you paint the long wall the darker color or the lighter color? |
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