Really cool! Reminds me of the Best Little Whorehouse in Texas for some reason.

Texas is about to sink under the weight of barnstars.

These are all over Texas, large and small. Ours have a rusty patina though.

They're all over Western Massachusetts, that's for sure. For awhile my friends and I tried to figure out if they were awarded or voluntary decoration. We decided they were "cute house" awards until we saw a not-so-cute house that had one. Oh well. No system is flawless.

They are all over Ohio and Pennslyvania. I have to admit that I have a huge rusty one we are putting up on our house (in Mi.) this summer....

I refuse to put a barnstar on my home. It's so overdone here (Texas).

Reminds me of growing up... The most well known barn painter in our county would finish his work with his signature... a large (usually white on a red barn) 4-leaf clover. Still a few left.

Does anyone know what the stars originally signified? Seem rather 4th of July to me.

Texas needs a barnstar intervention! They are everywhere here......they breed at night.

AT, have you gone mad? There's nothing cool about Barnstars. And I agree, Texas totally needs a barnstar intervention. I see them across the street on the neighbor's house and then I get to be surrounded by them at my job, (I work for the state of Texas). They're in the cafe, the bathroom and the break room. Enough!

I think this is funny. I lived in RI for four years and never once saw a barnstar, but being a native Texan and living here now, I see them ALL THE TIME. I think they are a little tacky. But I admit, I use a small one to top my Christmas tree. I like to think of it as a Lone Star though.

A friend once said "the barn stars of today are the wing-span eagles of the 1970's." (Remember those eagles hanging over garages holding the shield and arrows?) Nice.

I don't mind them... someone gave me a star as a gift, but it sits weathering in a corner of my garden. I like it there.

They look alot like communist stars of the 50's especially in red. I'm just sayin'...

I personally like the barn stars - in fact have a big weathered white one adorning a kitchen wall - but they are everywhere. Still, I like to see them. (Emily Sneds, really?)

Is it weird that I kind of like them now that I know they are called "barnstars"?

i bought one a few years ago for a Christmas decoration...bright bright red. My husband called it our tribute to Communism. I have since spray painted it brown and hung it in the garden. We don't seem to have too many of them around here (NC).

I also have a weathered white barn star on my kitchen wall. It looks good against a white wall and not too country. Yet, I personally cringe when I see big huge stars adorning the outside of a house.

these are ubiquitous in georgia. i used to think they were sweet, but i see far too many of them these days. very country chic, but a little overdone, a la "keep calm..."

After they showed up on many HGTV Rate My Space postings, I started noticing them at Kohl's, JoAnn Fabrics, and many other places, which makes me realize the time has come and gone for all but the authentic ones. An old one is cool, but a Walmart knockoff with a faux patina is not.

I've only seen mirrored interior versions here in UK, which are mega expensive. I love the look of these outside versions though.

I really like the structural stars (or anchor plates..), which you mostly see on old brick structures, but also on bars that have tie rods. The barn stars as decoration, not so much.

Living in Southern California, I had never really seen any until I went on my first trip to the east coast. I think I kind of like them.

I put one on my beach cottage a couple of years ago. I like the folk art aspect of it.

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There are 4 within a mile of my house here in CT ... personally, I don't get it.

"Noooooooo!" says another Texan.

Note that I've seen about 350,000 of these things and never once on a barn.

(An unwilling Texan)