I really like southwestern decorations, but I don't like the tacky-touristy stuff like kokopellis and dream catchers. Hanging chili peppers, decent quality rugs and cows skulls are pretty darn cool. How about you?

Here's a photo I took in Santa Fe:



-Steve

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I like sw style decorations too. Cow skulls & horns are cool.
I have a straw hat cowboy hat I picked up at a thrift store a few years ago which i've never really worn. It hangs above my doorway to remind me where I would like to be, which isn't here in the midwest I used to wear cowboy hats a lot in my late teens, early twenties.

They are worn around here by a lot of the Hispanic community around here who migrated from the sw to here.

And of course I have all kinds of cups & mugs which have anything to do with the west, AZ, NM, CO, etc. If it's a travel mug with landscaping on it I buy it.

I collect old & new kerosene lamps, don't know if that qualifies as sw but country for sure.

Plates too. (Decorative), the kind that hang on the wall. Have some from NM, MT so far.

I like sw style blankets too, along with the Native American stuff. I picked up a huge candle of a Native American indian Chief that looks cool. I think it's about a foot high. After I clean all this junk out of here I will have to find a suitable display spot for it.

Into all that southwestern stuff...Don't get me wrong, it has it's place in certain settings. But to have a dead cows skull hanging in my house isn't very appealing to me. I know...Iknow...I live in the middle of southwestern/indian culture but being originally from England my tastes differ.

Besides I think the southwestern "style" was done to death a few years back and now has a certain stigma being cheap and outdated...Sorry don't mean to offend anyone but that is my personal opinion. However I do think that the feeling you get from visiting or living here wouldn't be the same if we didn't have this rich culture to draw from.

Roger...

in redesigning the city government. The mud-faux adobe buildings have got to go! My proposal is to imitate the stately structures in London. It should go well with the local population and be on the banks of the Rio Grande river-
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Ristras hanging from the porch of an adobe hacienda is New Mexico to me. I can almost smell the strong aroma of red chili and the taste of enchiladas when i see this-


I would like to have a home like this in Santa Fe-

What a funny guy!!!

dream catchers are lovely - but yes tacky ones made for tourists are - tacky -

as you know from being at our house we have a lot of southwestern things funriture we even bought back east - not knowing we would be living in the wild wild west

I love most things historic and or Native Ameican INdian or of the culture of Mexico - southwestern history and have since I was a child. I suppose some of that comes from my ancestory of being part Cherokee and part Blackfoot Indian and from my father talking about it to me and learning the family history etc.

of course when you go towards more classy type decorating you run into more money - a good skull is expensive

and kokepeli have meaning to the southwestern culture

BuMMiTy BuMMiTy BuMMiTy BuMp EvErYtHiNg IS BeTTer IN A JEEP!!!



Love, Jeep_Chick