This is my favorite room in the house. When I was designing, I had plans for this to be a game room....pool table...poker table....a game room.
However, I had all of this awesome authentic Davis Furniture Company Ranch Oak that came straight out of my grandparents' ranch house. I also ran in to this awesome wall hanging last summer and decided that whatever I did, this wall hanging would be my inspiration for color and theme.
So....because I have so many western antiques, it ended up a television room and my favorite room in the house. The only thing it is missing is a fireplace. The thing is, during design, I put the fireplace in....took the fireplace out....put it in...and finally, took it out. Oh well, we have a family room, complete with double-sided fireplace, that needs to be used.
You will be hard pressed to find furniture like this coffee table with hand-carved longhorns all around. The cowhide rug adds the finishing touch in front of a black leather loveseat with recliners.
This corner...is where the fireplace would have gone...it is also my favorite corner of the room. On the right are my dad's boyhood chaps and belt. The little red boots were mine, and the bronzed baby shoes...made into book ends....were my dad's. He wore these in 1936. Honestly, this is why my Tuscan-inspired home is quickly becoming Western heritage...it is what I know and it is what I'm proud of. These things don't belong in the storeroom.
This next piece of Davis Ranch Oak is one I have never seen anywhere else. This lamp stood beside my grandfather's chair all of his life. The wagonwheel is edged in copper, and the shade is made up of old family photos. Incredible!
The window behind the lamp is about 10 feet wide. It needs some kind of accent around it. I don't want to cover the windows....I want to make them look finished. Maybe I will find some light-weight burlap to frame the window....I like texture and I like different.
Finally, this phone actually worked when I was growing up. It did not call out on Ma Bell...it did, however, call the other house in the pasture behind headquarters. The "All-Day Roping" sign is real and was produced to advertise the annual roping held at the ranch when my dad was a teenager....and the metal string of stars go up and over the patio doors that also lead out onto the covered porch.
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