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When decorating with animal decor, stick to one trend and one trend only. Perhaps you love deer antlers? Choose a statement piece such as an antler chandelier or an antler key rack -- and let that be your only mammal influence in the room. Anything more will look as if you've got season tickets for deer-hunting this fall, and well...no one likes an interior designer with a rifle.
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The writer is obviously not a hunter or married to one (season tickets, give me a break). As I am married to a bow hunter who has been to South Africa more than once, I can assure the writer there would never be a South African safari room with an alligator anywhere in it. (Only crocodiles in SA) While I realize a room full of taxidermy is not everyone's cup of tea, having only one "mammal influence" in the room is akin to having only one piece of chocolate!! A decor don't? I don't believe there is one as everyone has their own personal taste....even if some people's is only in their mouth....
ReplyYou've nailed it Margie, the writer's not a hunter! Lots of people like the cabin look, with loads of mounts. It can be a very old money look, and elegant, like the German hunting lodges and camp buildings which are loaded with mounts and horns. English castles often have entire trophy rooms or long, cavernous halls which are decorated with collections of mounts. It's a matter of taste, and since the house in question sold for a comfortable price, perhaps the decor was what the new buyer wanted?
ReplyToo true - a person apparently "raised on concrete" wrote that review. If she DOES eat meat - where DOES that come from!? A Mammal, I'm betting - or maybe a bird? Does she ever eat Sushi? I digress - at any rate - I AM a hunter, was married to one, and NO I do NOT have a room full of "bloody heads" (never SAW one of those mounts!) per her recent review of a "cabin" (bigger than MY house!) that had only 7 trophy mounts scattered around. I have one set of Elk antlers in my bedroom - skull mounted, and several whitetail skull mounts in other places. I am proud to be a hunter, having just taken a very nice 8 Pt here. I will eat that deer and be very thankful to him for providing me with sustenance. Not to mention - Taxidermy has come a VERY long way, and is a marvelous art form, with practitioners striving for the most natural, live look they can can achieve.
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We had a spa day at our instructors home...this is suppose to be a relaxing peaceful day, as soon as I walked in there was a stuffed bob cat in some plants,,,on the walls was every kind of animal head you could think of.I began sick immediately and souldn't help but express my feelings to my teacher, I knew I had made an enemy and if I hadn't of had 104 grade point average, she would have failed me.When I see the head or body of an animal that was alive and beautiful I can see the animal's life and the question why?
ReplyI packed my stuff and left and let her and everyone else know why I was leaving, truthfully half the class agreed with me but stayed and said nothing.btw the owner of the school and my teachers name is Jody Stork and her school was in Melbourne, Fl, It's not a good school and that has nothing to do with the stuffed animals..that's all I'm going to say, she likes to sue. Have a good day