Western Cowboy Home Decor

It's A Wide Open Range

Western home decor has officially moved out of the days of Hee-Haw and become one the finest of decorating schemes. Taking advantage of this upscale trend can significantly improve any home's comfort levels while maintaining a designer look. Western decor has branched out in recent years to include such wide variations as Southwestern, Rockies-centered, cowboy, and Native American motifs, ensuring that anyone can find their preferences expressed in the uniquely independent Western style. Due to the increasing demand for the incredible variety and beauty that Western home decor has to offer, we have found for you only the best online resources to design and decorate your Western home.

There are several different elements to Western home decor. Choosing the right Western fabric to coordinate each room with is an important first step. Every home needs textile design elements to soften, highlight, and contrast with the archetecture and furnishings, and deciding on the theme, style, and region of a Western home decor scheme is paramount to tying the atmosphere of the house together. Picking out the contrasting accent fabrics is fun as well, at least it was for us!

The next important factor is perfect Western lighting. Good lighting casts an inviting glow over every beautiful feature of a Western home, and the lamps themselves should be both beautiful and functional in order for the entire Western theme to acheive the highest aim of both beauty and comfort.

Every home has curtains for both privacy and insulation, and of course your Western home needs Western curtains. There is no better place to proclaim your affection for all things Western than on window treatments. There's a knack to designing beautiful and contextual window dressings, and we promise to cover all the bases with you.

And, of course, each and every Western home needs good, comfy Western bedding for the whole family. Bedrooms are more than just our sleeping places, they are our sanctuaries from the cares and worries of the outside world. We take good care to find and review the most beautiful and varied array of bedding for both grown ranch hands and the tiniest of cowboy babies.

Don't forget eating! Westerners love to eat, and eat in style. Making sure you have just the right Western dinnerware will serve to integrate your theme and highlight your individual style. To allow the maximum range in choices, we have hunted down and reviewed the best Western dinnerware we could find.

And, last but not least, we scoured the internet to bring you the finest in cowboy figurines, perfect for an entire Western home theme or to add a smaller accent of Western flare and style to your home. They also make wonderful gifts for the rugged individualist on your list, so be sure to take a look at what we found.

Lone Star Western Decor does nothing but cater to cowboys. Carrying everything Western, they offer bath accessories, flatware, wall hangings, rugs, figurines, clocks, household hardware, even accent pieces like throws and pillows. They maintain a beautifully laid out online store, with easy to navigate categories so you can find just what you need in no time.

Looking at various website for themes can be quite useful when attempting to design the perfect home for your needs. For example, Lone Star Western Decor offers equine motifs, cowboy motifs, rancher motifs, southwestern area rugs, and any of these can easily be used as a foundation piece to build the remainder of a room with. Mixing and matching patterns can give a feeling of luxurious adornment, but accenting such a room with one simple focal point is a good idea.

The Woolly Sheep specializes in Western and rustic home decor. Their offerings are incredible in variety, and many of their rustic offerings either fit in perfectly with a Rockies or Northwestern style home, or offer a needed contrast to other motif-related design schemes. They also carry several very cute pieces, perfect for adding cheer and warmth to any Western home.

Using contrasting accent pieces is an important part of home design, but must be done with care. Choosing the right contrast accent is as important as figuring out where to put it. One whimsical piece, like Woolly Sheep's Ruthie Bear end table, can add a sense of gentle humor to an otherwise plain foyer, but it wouldn't fit well in a flagstone and Navajo rug decorated living room that is planned for more serene elegance.

Black Forest Decor carries a beautiful selection of furniture, flatware, lighting, and textile arts for your home. Their focus is on cabin-reminiscent elements, which can be used to great advantage when trying to add light and simplicity to your home. Most of the rancher elements of Western home decor can get rather heavy in material and design, and adding cabin motifs or furnishings can be used for balance, in addition to being easier to move in the case of large pieces.

Black Forest also carries antler creations, which are often overlooked pieces in fine Western home decor. Antler sculpture can easily overpower a room that is not designed to support it, but in the right context that same sculpture is a lovely statement of line, curve, and grace. An antler sculpture, be it chandelier or coat rack, must be placed in an area that is otherwise simply designed, where bare structural lines lead the eye naturally towards the antler piece in question. Stone settings are frequently the best setting for an antler sculpture, as the color and texture contrast serves to integrate both stone and antler instead of clashing.

Sunland Home Decor's online store has an entire section devoted to the Old West, providing lovely and unique Western accessories to integrate into your home. Their cheery online store practically transported us to the Western states and is sure to inspire your creativity and originality.

Sunland's wide collection of Western art prints demands special attention. Out of over a hundred beautiful prints of Western scenery, horses, and people rendered in the vivid colors of the Old West, we wanted to point out "Freedom", a lovely scene of three Appaloosa horses enjoying their run. Their graceful, curving lines echo each other in a harmony of all things horse.

Home Decorators carries everything, and we mean everything necessary to decorate just about any home. Their Western collection features lighting, furniture, and rugs. Of course all of their merchandise is of good quality, good value, and beautiful design.

One featured item at Home Decorators we really love is the Sedona Tiffany Art Glass collection. Each piece provides a lovely way to add color and intensity to any window. They are so beautiful, you may want to put them up in the interior of the house, just to protect them! They come in rectangular, square, and round shapes, each carefully made in the Tiffany method for long lasting style.

Shepler's, while known best for its Western wear, features a small collection of Western home accents and gift ideas. They carry both Western figurines and wall art, both of which are integral elements in any Western home. Their home products are good quality, unique pieces that can be used as part of an overall Western theme or to add a Western touch to a country or rustic home.

Our favorite of Shepler's offerings is the Windy metal wall art shown at right. This cutout metal wall sculpture is a perfect rendition of a wild Western mustang, complete with windblown mane and tail, rendered in all the colors of a midday desert. She would look stunning on any wall big enough to support her, but she should have that wall all to herself. She is bold enough by far to be the focal point of any room.

Gift Springs is an online store specializing in gifts for all ages and tastes, and their selection of Western gifts is quite extensive and beautiful. Their Desert Skull Wall Clock , left, would be a perfect Southwestern accent reminiscent of Georgia O'Keefe's work.

Country Trade Days is an online Mecca of Western dinnerware, lighting, and general home accents. They specialize in their dinnerware, but they have applied the same level of care to all of their Western home decor sections. Go here to find beautiful ceramic and crystal, chandeliers, and a wealth of ideas for your Western home.

Focusing on the Southwest, Midwest Home Decor carries an extensive collection of home goods. We particularly recommend their Southwestern theme kitchen towels, placemats, and table napkins for all the coordinating dining linens you may find yourself in need of. Their warm, traditional colors are sure to add comfort and charm to any kitchen or dining room.

Midwest Home Decor also carries a fairly wide range of Southwestern themed ceramic items, ranging from figurines to coffee mugs, and even a few bath accessories. Add one to highlight the spice in your life, or collect them for a cheerful chili pepper themed kitchen.

Where would any Western home be without a wide array of Western rugs? Rugs add insulation, comfort, color and texture to any home, and are a traditional, not to mention beautiful, element of Western home decor. Every Tapestry and its sister site, CSN Rugs both have one of the largest online selections of traditional Western rugs and wall hangings we've ever seen, among a collection of other Western art that they have kindly put together.

We would particularly like to draw attention to two of their rugs. The Genesis Bear Walk rug is a lovely patterning of traditional Northwestern Native American motifs rendered in the gentlest of autumn colors. It would do a wonderful job of softening traditional Western stone or wood floors in large family areas. Their Heritage Southwest Rug, shown below right, will easily define any area with its unique curvilinear borders while adding a splash of bright color in a traditional desert scene.

For those who want to invest in one-of-a-kind artworks by well known artists, we particularly suggest Western Wall Art, an online gallery of contemporary artists. They feature three lines by famous artists and artist collectives, the Lazart line, the R.A. Guthrie line, and the Steel Images line. Mr. Guthrie specializes in metal wall sculpture, and has created an entire line of beautiful cut metal images for your home. But the artwork of his that we wanted to draw particular attention to is his hand made leather vase shown at left. Tooled leather laid over a wooden core, this handmade vase makes an elegant, beautiful and unique addition to the Western home.

There are a myriad of online stores that only offer one or two Western home decor pieces for sale, but the one we liked best is Quality Matters. Only offering two Western pieces, shown here, it may not seem worth the time to look, but both pieces are of top quality and unique. The first, a traditional dinner triangle, makes a fine addition to either the Western porch or kitchen. Keep it for its gentle wind driven ring, or ring it yourself to get the family to the table. The other piece they offer, a Western motif fire pit, is a lovely and useful addition to the backyard. Usable as both a grill and a place to roast marshmallows, this fire pit will provide a safe and beautiful place to hold cookouts and sing-along’s for years.

Best of luck on your quest to design your Western home, and we hope we could help no matter what theme you were searching for.