Now I know all of you do not have a cowboy room in your home, but since I do I can’t tell you how thrilled I was to find this magazine rack to install on my barn wood wall in our “Cowboy Room”. With a horse shoe in the middle of it and made of old rusted metal it made my “socks roll up and down” and I had to have it. Fortunately it was not very expensive and I now owned another piece of metal wall art for my very southwestern home. At the food mart that day we also scored a metal towel bar in the shape of an arrow which we mounted on the barn siding for guests to use for their bath towels. It is also a fabulous piece of metal wall art and both pieces together were under $50. There is also barbed wire mounted on the wall in this southwestern cowboy room, and although mounted fairly high on the wall we do mention to house guests not to touch it as I was cut just messing with it. We also always inform the house guests that the barn siding will leave wood slivers on any clothing items to brush against it and I make every effort not to let sheets or pillows touch it. I have vacuumed it many times and with several different vacuum attachments but it does continue to shed. If you want to see our very southwest home it is Here
Another unique way I store magazines is in a rectangular bark and branch box. It came with the house we now live in and was holding fake plants atop the kitchen cabinets when we moved in. Now it sits by our massive stone fireplace showing off over a dozen “Phoenix Home & Garden” Magazines. I have acquired such a large measure of these magazines I’ve had to resort to decorating with them.
The third “unique” one I have, also in our great room, is a multi-colored rectangular wicker basket. The room is full of vivid colors and this basket woven of blue, green, orange, purple, yellow and red (in that order from left to right) looks like it’s made especially for me. It too holds a couple dozen “Phoenix Home & Garden” magazines. I purchased 4 of these colored baskets, the smaller two hold cd’s and the other large one holds movies.
