We showcased a gallery of kids rooms earlier today that used animal heads as decor. Some of you still think they're creepy, but maybe it's just the idea of taxidermy that turns you off. Think of them, instead, as hanging sculpture. Many of them are downright works of art.
Row 1:
1. Matsutake on Etsy: El Toro (the bull) made from a repurposed hand-embroidered Oaxacan dress and denim ($125).
2. Anthropologie: animal busts made from repurposed cement bags and vintage paper. Animals include gazelle, giraffe, zebra, elephant and rhino ($68-128).
3. Misfit Menagerie: Lamb, buck, deer, doe, or hare made from wool felt and fabric ($20 -75).
4. La Factoria Plastica on Etsy: paper mache sheep, zebra, deer, goat or unicorn ($85).
5. Tamar Mogendorff: handmade fabric deerhead with gold or silver sequined antlers ($440).
Row 2:
6. Ruby's Lounge on Etsy: made to order resin animal heads covered with decorative paper ($335).
7. Z Gallerie: A selection of resin animal heads in white laquer - moose, deer, gazelle or horse ($50-250).
8. Planet Fur on Etsy: wool felt trophy heads (smaller ones are magnetic) including a bear, narwhal and rhinos ($22-35).
9. Anatomically Incorrect Creatures on Etsy: made to order from eco-felt. Animals include elephant, deer, dino and moose ($30-70).
10. Squackdoodle on Etsy: plush animal heads including a fox, unicorn, giraffe and elephant ($25).
Row 3:
11. Urban Outfitters: Inflatable animal heads - dinosaur ($25) or tiger ($30).
12. Urban Outfitters: cardboard animal heads - unicorn ($20) or stag ($28).
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I just can't get past the decapitation part, so I wouldn't do this for a child's room. Especially not the unicorn. That's just wrong.
I love the unicorn in image 3. I love it when they're kind of...cartoony, I guess. It's cute.
These are really cute. Now when I walk in someones house with a real animal head, it creeps me out a little but to each their own. The sheep is just funny. I hope no one has a real sheep head mounted on their wall.
I'm with you cakowalik. Nothing about a dead animal's head (even a pretend dead animal) on a wall does it for me.
i suppose i'm in the minority. i'd want the real thing. i follow a tumblr blog of a taxidermist who works mostly with roadkill (in addition to pets that have passed or hunters' kill). i think it's fascinating.
I dig the real thing as well molly h. So it'll just be me and you. My dad's a hunter and I grew up with a deer head above the fireplace. The only time it ever creeped me out is when I was younger and watched Evil Dead and I had a dream that it came to life like that. But that was a short ick thing.
We used to dress it up for the holidays. It was funny...me saying that is going to make some people mad...but yeah, don't care too much.
It's good you don't care. Just as you are allowed to have your own taste, so is everyone else who thinks a head on a wall is weird or creepy.
Why stop at animals then? Let's see some people head trophies on walls.
I actually have a severed one that I made at school. Was an SFX course. Everyone that comes in comments on it. Gets some laughs. :)
*a severed human head one...dang prego brain.
Really don't like these. My in-laws have deer heads all over their living room, and I think they are so tacky. They're bedroom is decorated in a log-cabin theme...just not my thing, and yeah-that unicorn is creepy. I don't like things in a child's room that are too hokey, or won't grow up with them.
I made a faux deer antler thingy for my wall. I used a cheap wooden plack and screwed a large branch (that looked like antlers) to it. It looks faboo and less creapy that a head with eyes.
i love each and every one. the bull and the unicorn are my favorite and i am now officially obsessed! not creapy to me in the least bit. thank you for the post!!
we have several taxidermey things in our house. i really want a buffalo and a moose but that means i will have to eat buffalo and moose and i dont know what that will taste like. but it would look awesome!