1880's gun room

Dirty Brass · April 16, 2008, 08:14:33 AM

Thanks Russ - I actually built the fireplace around the cabinet, so it was easier to give it a built in look.

Curley Cole · April 16, 2008, 09:26:35 PM

A friend of ours visited my room and due to the theme: cowboy, harleys, guitars, indian stuff including my Zuni fetishes my photography and my whiskey bar,(I got a cheap stand, and put my whiskeys on display, got a sterling silver tray to hold my shot glasses, anyways she dubbed my room the "Testerone Room"...

Cabellas has a cool lantern it looks like an old time Coleman style lantern, had a clear and a frosted glass, and adjustable light..they come in brass, tarnished and gunmetal...they are very cool..

I will try to get some pix of my room up

curley

Black Powder · April 16, 2008, 10:39:12 PM

Very inspiring, folks! Basement, here I come...

Decorating suggestion: old map on the wall.

BP

Steel Horse Bailey · April 17, 2008, 04:18:14 AM

Just like Marshal Dillon had!

And prob'ly a lot of REAL lawmen, too!

River City John · April 17, 2008, 06:32:18 AM

Don't forget the spittoon.

Deadeye Don · April 17, 2008, 06:50:09 AM

Ok here is an interesting website to add to your Man caves.

http://www.gunsandswords.com/old-west-accessories.html

Curley Cole · April 17, 2008, 05:57:18 PM

My kids gave me a spitoon, and I dump my change in it every nite. It is almost full...

I took a couple of pictures, and will post them this weekend.

tc

Deadeye Don · April 18, 2008, 12:44:23 PM

Quote from: Curley Cole on April 17, 2008, 05:57:18 PM
My kids gave me a spitoon, and I dump my change in it every nite. It is almost full...

I took a couple of pictures, and will post them this weekend.

tc

I sure hope I dont get some of the pennies, nickles and dimes you have in that spitoon in my return change some day.

'Monterrey' Jack Brass · April 19, 2008, 06:04:34 AM

Fellows,

I've looked through the posts and think it's a great thread – blending daily life with personal old west interests. At first I didn't think my library qualified to be included in the gunroom discussion but after seeing the various suggestions perhaps it does.

When I need to take a break, do some research, or just relax I often go to my library to do it. As it has some muskets stacked in the corner it sorta/kinda qualifies to this thread as being a gun room (I keep all my old west stuff locked up in a gun safe) so I'm posting three views below.

As you can see the theme of it is Victorian-guy related. Nothing frilly or feminine admitted (and the fact my lady likes it as-is is a plus).

YMH&OS,

Brass

Steel Horse Bailey · April 19, 2008, 12:33:41 PM

Howdy, M. Jack!

Your corner decorations are pretty cool!

Is that a Stradivarius on top of the bookshelf?

Or a fiddle?! And can you Hoe-down on the corner - perhaps with "Willy and the Po' Boys?"

Black River Smith · April 19, 2008, 03:48:43 PM

Monterrey Jack,

That brass lamp with red shade it beautiful and perfect. Very nice.

Nice little nick-nacks sitting around too.

Black Powder · April 19, 2008, 03:55:04 PM

Quote from: Steel Horse Bailey on April 17, 2008, 04:18:14 AM
Just like Marshal Dillon had!

You know it! Just make sure it's not reversed...

Quote from: 'Monterrey' Jack Brass on April 19, 2008, 06:04:34 AM
Ive looked through the posts and think its a great thread blending daily life with personal old west interests. At first I didnt think my library qualified to be included in the gunroom discussion but after seeing the various suggestions perhaps it does.

It sure does.

BP

'Monterrey' Jack Brass · April 20, 2008, 11:32:01 AM

The violin is a czech imitation of a Strad, nice old label pasted inside the violin body in latin but is unconvincing, but I can't fiddle worth a darn anyway. Might be worth a look to try playing as it would be fun in camp. Too bad I'm tone deaf! Still, it's a nice knick-knack in the library.

Brass

Sgt Sourdough · April 21, 2008, 03:44:45 PM

I found some kotty pine t&g boards I like. When did they start using t&g boards?

Curley Cole · April 22, 2008, 05:27:38 PM

Here are a couple of pix of my "office" or "Testrone Room"

In the various pix you can see my collection of Zuni fetishes in a ond small cabinent, the whiskey bar, with spitoon below (which is almost full of change.) Harleys I wished I had, Picutres I have taken and my ode to HO scale trains. I have a hat rack with a pair of Duke rigs, and non firing guns in them. I have 2 frames that I have put various sherrif badges. Under the hat rack is the lantern I was talking about earlier. It is really neat and has adjustable lite.. Also in one pix are my original "wanted posters" I made of me and Old Top and DreamCatchers given to me by various folks. On top of the drop front are some indian beadwork, some made by me.
There are other areas that are cool, like in one cabinent I have a collection of miniture liquor bottles, some even still have a tax stamp on it...A lot of the room is messy by some folks standards but, it is where I hang out...
hope you all enjoy it...
Curley
PS if ya have any questions about anything ya see, just holler.