Southwestern Home Office Furniture

Southwestern home office furniture is still very popular. You can choose to decorate your entire office in this wonderful furniture style or use a few accent pieces to give your room a southwestern flair.

When southwestern design is mentioned most people think of turquoise and Aztec geometrical patterns. While these details are a part of southwestern furniture design, the style includes a wider range of influences.

Southwestern furniture has an old world charm that creates a feeling of romanticism and nostalgia. The furniture is usually rustic and oversized. Larger pieces are often a combination of leather, metal and wood.

The Spanish and Mexican influences are obvious when you examine the various motifs and styles found in southwestern furniture. Native American symbols and motifs are often found incorporated in various furniture, especially hand-carved wood pieces and textiles such as fabric chairs, sofas and rugs.

Many of the southwestern furniture styles have western motifs in addition to borrowing some motifs from Mexican and Spanish furniture styles.

Some Popular Motifs

• Stars – The lone star of Texas
• Rope – A true symbol of cowboys
• Boots – Another cowboy and western symbol
• Longhorn – The livestock of the west is depicted in southwestern design.
• Arrowhead – Native American arrows and spearheads
• Fans – Borrowed from Spanish and Mexican motifs
• Squash Blossom Rosettes – Popular in Santa Fe designs
• Sunflower – Either convex or concave
• Zapotec designs – Indigenous historical pre-Columbian civilization such as Native American tribes like the Navajo.

Southwestern hardware can range from hammered metal to intricate western and Native American motifs like those used in carved furniture pieces. The western United States culture of ranch life is often depicted in decorative cabinet doorknobs and door pulls. If you're wanting to add a flair of western culture to your office, you can change out plain hardware for a motif style.

Some of the popular door knob and door pull choices are made of wrought iron, nickel and copper:

• Longhorn
• Star
• Boot
• Star and rope
• Boot and rope
• Longhorn and rope

Large rustic desks are often contrasted with a leather top. The base is hand-carved with rope chains, star medallions and other southwestern motifs.

Native American, one of many motifs used.

Wood Choices

• Mahogany
• Walnut
• White pine
• Sugar pine
• Ponderosa pine heartwood
• Oak
• Cactus inlaid

Shop Desks:

• Old Colonial Desk
• Lorenz Large Desk
• Walnut Desk
• Desks and Cabinets
• Rope and Star Motif
• Leather Top Desk
• L-Shaped Leather Top Desk

You can find the perfect southwestern executive chair for your desk from the wide range of choices offered.

This is one of the most popular styles of executive chairs. This chair is typically upholstered in leather with a swivel seat and four-star base with rollers. The leather can either be tufted with buttons or left smooth. Studs are found at the ends of the arm rests or outlining the chair where the leather meets the wood. Solid wood finishes are available in any stain you may want.

• Leather Executive Captain's Chair

Cowhide and leather combinations add a flavor of the west complete with studs. One of the most popular choices is the reddish brown leather combined with a brown and white cow hide. Another favorite choice is a brown and white salt-and-pepper cowhide combined with dark brown leather.

• General Lee Cowhide and Leather Chair
• Cowhide Chair

If you have clients coming into your home office, you'll want to provide them with nice seating.

• Cowhide and Leather

You can choose from several accent pieces to add a homey feel to your office. If your office is big enough, you may wish to add a sofa or a couple of chairs for reading. If you have a fireplace in your office, consider adding a rocking chair. A bench or chest makes an excellent substitute for a coffee table or can be placed in front of your desk for additional storage space.

Non-traditional office furniture can easily find a place in your southwestern office. Commandeer a hutch or curio and use it in your office for a cabinet or bookcase. Even a pie safe can be used.

Finding a non-traditional piece of furniture in an office gives the room a unique look and captures the attention and imagination. Southwestern furniture lends itself to this kind of unexpected use because the pieces are so interesting and attractive. Don't forget that the valances over your windows don't have to be cloth. You may decide to use some beautifully carved wooden ones.

There are quite a few furniture websites and stores dedicated to southwestern furniture.

Bench

• Bench
• Fan Motif Bench

Rocking Chair

• Leather Seat and Back Rocker

Coffee Table

• Rectangle Coffee Table
• Square Coffee Table

Armoires

• Southwester Armoires

Other Furniture Stores

• Office Furniture Collection
• One-of-a-Kind
• Cactus Inlaid Furniture
• La Fuente Office Furniture
• Contemporary Southwestern Office Furniture

Now that you've selected your Southwestern home office furniture you'll want to accessorize your office with a few items to tie it all together.

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