Across Texas
Rustic, Western and hacienda furniture for Texas homes
Texas furniture borrows from the ranch, the border and the Hill Country. Our family started The Rustic Gallery in 1998 by bringing handcrafted furniture from Mexico to the American market, and we have sold to clients in every corner of Texas, from El Paso and the Rio Grande Valley to the Panhandle and Texarkana.
Three traditions
What makes furniture feel Texan
Most Texas-style rooms draw on one of three histories. Knowing which one your house speaks makes the choice easier.
Ranch and Western. Cattle trailing was the principal way Texas cattle reached market in the late 19th century, and longhorns made up most of the early herds. In furniture the ranch shows up as tooled leather, cowhide, nailhead trim and the Lone Star.
Hacienda and Spanish colonial. San Antonio's 18th-century missions are the only UNESCO World Heritage Site in Texas. In furniture, the hacienda look means carved wood, wrought iron, copper and heavy beams.
Hill Country. Texas Germans built half-timbered houses, still concentrated in Fredericksburg, Comfort and New Braunfels, and from about 1850 hewn-stone ones across the Hill Country. Stone walls and plain wood call for warm, solid pieces, and mesquite, native to Texas, is a natural fit.
- Ranch house: one tooled leather or cowhide piece per room, set against plain wood.
- Stucco, arches or tile: hacienda pieces in carved wood, iron and copper.
- Stone and beams: mesquite, onyx and live-edge tops that hold their own against the walls.
Examples
Examples with a Texas accent
Examples from our catalog, photographed in our showroom. Our floor changes often, so a piece shown here may have sold. Ask us about any piece, and we'll confirm whether it's available and share pricing.
Lone Star Bed with Cowhide
A carved wooden bed with a star medallion on a dark leather headboard and cowhide panels on the footboard.
See the listingTexas Star Wormwood Bench
A carved wooden bench with a large star cut into its back. A strong piece for an entry or the end of a bed.
See the listingSilverado Leather & Cowhide Sofa
Turquoise leather with cowhide sides: Western materials in a color that carries a whole room.
See the listingRound Onyx Table with Mesquite Pedestal
A round onyx top on a wooden pedestal. The stone's banding gives a dining room its center.
See the listingOld Ranch Gate Patina or Natural Copper Coffee Table
A heavy rectangular coffee table with a dark patina top on a wooden trestle base.
See the listingHacienda Iron Gates Entertainment Center
Wooden cabinetry with iron-barred doors, in the hacienda tradition, for a living room or den.
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Hill Country houses
Furnishing a stone or fachwerk house
Fredericksburg's historic district guidelines describe its German vernacular houses as one or one and a half stories, of fachwerk or limestone, with thick walls and small windows. The Sunday houses of Gillespie County were smaller still, usually only two rooms.
Rooms like these reward smaller, well-chosen pieces and good lamps. A nightstand, a bench, a mirror or a single painting can carry a room that a full suite would crowd.
- Measure doorways and stairs first; old houses rarely have wide ones.
- Small windows mean lamps and a chandelier do more of the work.
- Ask about the dimensions of any piece with XL in its name before you plan around it.
Texas cities
Notes for Dallas, Fort Worth and Houston
Dallas and the Park Cities
Highland Park Village, the Park Cities' Spanish Colonial Revival shopping center from about 1930, drew in part on San Antonio's French and Spanish markets of the time. Houses of that era take hacienda pieces well: carved mirrors, iron and onyx lighting, scrollwork case goods.
Fort Worth
Fort Worth's Spanish Eclectic houses, such as the Ponton House of about 1920 in Mistletoe Heights, with its stucco walls and red tile, suit Mexican hacienda case goods, copper, onyx and devotional art.
Houston
River Oaks' houses from the 1920s to the 1940s span Georgian, Tudor, Dutch Colonial, Mediterranean and Norman styles. In a room like that, one strong piece, such as a carved mirror or an onyx chandelier, works better than a matched set.
Town guides
Near San Antonio
Boerne and Fair Oaks Ranch
Limestone Texas German houses and ranch-land homes, half an hour away.
Read the guideNew Braunfels
Pieces that define a room, a nod to fachwerk and the drive along I-35.
Read the guideSchertz, Cibolo and the I-35 towns
Hacienda pieces that echo Randolph Field, with notes on eight nearby towns.
Read the guideBulverde and Spring Branch
Wood and iron for a country of cedar logs and quarried stone.
Read the guideCanyon Lake
Ranch and country store pieces for houses around the lake.
Read the guideSeguin, Kingsbury and Geronimo
Greek Revival limecrete, Queen Anne houses and planning the drive.
Read the guideSan Marcos and Martindale
Victorian, Folk and Craftsman houses and what suits them.
Read the guideHelotes and Leon Valley
Rustic bars and barstools along the old Bandera Road stage route.
Read the guideCastroville, Hondo and Medina County
Tables, chairs and chests for Alsatian stone houses along U.S. 90.
Read the guideSouth of San Antonio
Western pieces room by room, with each town listed by the road you drive.
Read the guide
The Hill Country
Fredericksburg, Stonewall, Luckenbach
Plain wood for German stone houses, carving for Folk Victorian ones.
Read the guideKerrville and Comfort
One strong piece in plain surroundings, the way Alfred Giles built.
Read the guideWimberley and Woodcreek
Slab, stump and live-edge pieces for a mill town on Cypress Creek.
Read the guideDripping Springs and Driftwood
Indoor lighting for the first dark-sky city in Texas.
Read the guideBandera, Pipe Creek and Medina
Tooled leather, cowhide and longhorns for the Cowboy Capital.
Read the guide
Austin and Central Texas
Austin
Long, low pieces for ranch houses, where to start and planning one trip.
Read the guideWaco, Woodway and Hewitt
Western pieces for the cattle-trail years and carved ones for Castle Heights revival rooms.
Read the guideKilleen, Temple and Belton
Mantel mirrors, desks and a railroad nod for Bell County houses, Harker Heights too.
Read the guideCollege Station and Bryan
Choosing by room size, from campus cottages and bungalows to two-story houses.
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Dallas, Fort Worth and North Texas
Dallas and the Park Cities
Hacienda pieces for Spanish Colonial Revival houses.
Read the guideFort Worth
Hacienda, copper and onyx beside the city's Western rooms.
Read the guideSherman, Denison and Lake Texoma
Wood grain, iron and driftwood for Grayson County.
Read the guideWichita Falls
Ranch pieces for the city's revival and Craftsman houses.
Read the guide
Houston and East Texas
Houston
One strong piece for a period-revival room.
Read the guideBeaumont, Port Arthur and Orange
Tall rooms and mixed styles from the lumber and oil-boom years.
Read the guideTyler
Pairs and carved wood for Colonial Revival and Tudor houses.
Read the guideLongview and Kilgore
Oil-boom revival houses, brick ranches and a nod to Kilgore.
Read the guideTexarkana
Round tables and Craftsman pieces on both sides of the state line.
Read the guide
The Gulf Coast, the Valley and the border
Corpus Christi and Portland
Carved pieces for Victorian rooms and how to ask about a finish.
Read the guideVictoria, Goliad and Cuero
Entry pieces for porch-wrapped houses, timber for stone rooms and a rawhide nod.
Read the guideLaredo
Carved wood, iron and lamps for flat-roofed sandstone and brick rooms.
Read the guideMcAllen, Edinburg, Mission and Pharr
A Spanish Revival dining room, chosen and asked about in one inquiry.
Read the guideBrownsville, Harlingen and San Benito
Plank, beam and iron pieces for Border Brick rooms.
Read the guideEagle Pass
Cowhide, saddle leather and the Lone Star, one ranch piece per room.
Read the guide
West Texas and the Panhandle
El Paso
Spanish Colonial Revival and adobe rooms, with copper, nearly nine hours away.
Read the guideMidland
Copper, forged iron and carved wood for 1930s period-revival rooms.
Read the guideOdessa
Tall pieces for high-ceilinged rooms, after the White-Pool House.
Read the guideSan Angelo and Paint Rock
Weight and symmetry, in the spirit of Fort Concho's stone.
Read the guideAbilene and Buffalo Gap
Long, low pieces for 1920s bungalows along Sayles Boulevard.
Read the guideLubbock
Spanish Renaissance carving and ranch pieces, one at a time.
Read the guideAmarillo and Canyon
Tudor and Spanish Colonial Revival rooms in the Panhandle.
Read the guide
From across the state
Shopping our showroom from elsewhere in Texas
Approximate drive times to the showroom on Loop 1604, without traffic: Boerne about 30 minutes, New Braunfels about 40, San Marcos under an hour, Kerrville and Fredericksburg a little over an hour, Austin about an hour and a half and Houston about three and a half hours. Dallas and Fort Worth are nearly five hours away.
Call before you drive
Our floor changes often. Call 210-495-4120 or ask on the listing to make sure the piece you want is still here.
Bring your measurements
Room size, the spot you have in mind and the doorways the piece has to pass through. Ask us about the piece's dimensions.
Too far to visit?
We can schedule a FaceTime or video call to show you a piece before you order. We ship anywhere in the world. Shipping arrangements are handled directly with The Rustic Gallery after the sale.
Common questions
What is Texas-style furniture?
Furniture that draws on Texas ranching, the Spanish colonial and Mexican hacienda tradition or the Hill Country's stone-and-timber houses: tooled leather, cowhide, the Lone Star, carved wood, wrought iron, copper and mesquite.
Do you ship anywhere in Texas?
Yes. We ship anywhere in the world. Shipping arrangements are handled directly with The Rustic Gallery after the sale.
Do you have a showroom outside San Antonio?
No. Our one showroom is at 1401 N. Loop 1604 W., Suite 100, San Antonio, TX 78258.
Are these pieces available now?
Our showroom floor changes often. Ask us about any piece, and we'll confirm whether it's available and share pricing.
See the pieces in person
Visit our showroom at 1401 N. Loop 1604 W., Suite 100, San Antonio, TX 78258. We are open Monday to Saturday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., and Sunday, noon to 4 p.m.