Choosing Leather Lamp Shades To Enhance Southwestern Home Decorating

The rustic look of leather lamp shades is a great way to add western style to your interior design. The use of decorative rustic shades has increased in recent years as decorators have found how easy it is to add western and Native American style in any room, by just using a leather lamp shade [...]

Using Painted Lamp Shades For Chic Southwest Home Decorating

Painted lamp shades provide beautiful rustic style for any home lighting fixture. The designer style they bring out in your home will have your friends talking about your incredible decorating style long after they leave. In fact, I enjoy decorating with these southwestern shades so much that I often give them as gifts for special [...]

Choose Custom Rawhide Lamp Shades To Enhance Rustic Decor

Using custom rawhide lamp shades as part of your home’s decor is the best way to give your home authentic rustic or western style. Something I love most about unique hand made lamp shades is the natural glow and inviting environment they create no matter how they are used. These natural rawhide shades are fashioned [...]

How To Use Kiva Ladders To Enhance Western Interior Design

Kiva ladders or Wooden Indian log ladders are pueblo style accessories that work great for complementing southwestern style in your home. While traveling or visiting the southwest you will surely notice that pueblo style log ladders are the most recognizable symbols of Native style design and art, used for unique, rustic and western style interior [...]

Try Rawhide Country Lamp Shades For Western Home Decorating

The unique look of rawhide country lamp shades for home decor has been popular since the end of the great depression when women first began to look at their homes in ways other than utilitarian. This was true with not only kitchens, but living rooms and later family rooms and dens as well. What is [...]

Use Indian Pottery To Create Beautiful Southwestern Home Decorating

Indian pottery, like that made by Tarahumara and Tigua Indians, is hand made using rough white, orange and brown clay found in the earth. The natural clay is not only utilitarian in design but is also what gives the pottery that popular rustic charm. The knowledge of pottery making has been taught to each generation [...]

How To Use Indian Baskets To Enhance Southwestern Home Decor

Indian baskets have been part of Native American culture for many years. I love using these unique baskets to bring southwest style to my home. It is interesting when you start reading the history of Native American basket weaving and find that the use of baskets actually started hundreds of years ago and is one [...]

Use A Wooden Dough Bowl To Enhance Mountain Home Decor

The wooden dough bowl is a true expression of Indian art and Native style living. In the northern part of Mexico, high in the mountain regions, the Tarahumara people have primitive lifestyles and live in rustic dwellings. They sell their handcrafts to earn money for food and to purchase only the most basic items necessary [...]

Choose Native American Flutes For Indian Ceremonies And Events

Native American flutes are some of the most loved Indian musical instruments of all time. I have always appreciated Native flute music for its pleasing sound quality and ability to bring a tranquil calm to the environment where it is played. Listening to Native flutes always take me back to my mother’s kitchen where she [...]

Native American Drums For Unique Rustic Decorating

Native American drums are without a doubt the most recognizable Native instruments among Indian and non Native American people alike. Drums for hundreds of years have always been at the center of American Indian lifestyle, forming what is now the vehicle of religion and spirituality as well as special days where a pow wow drum [...]