WESTERN STYLE : INTERIORS : Back at the Ranch

Admittedly, this two-story Studio City home looks like a set from “Bonanza”--one half-expects to see Hoss Cartwright stretched out on the sofa. Western enthusiasts in style and interior decor, actress Hilary Shepard and London-born record producer Nick Turner have furnished their house with flea-market finds and items from small, out-of-the-way stores. The cowboy vanity was found at the Elks Lodge in Pasadena; a year later, the matching chair turned up at the Rose Bowl. The cowboy clock (one of six the couple own) cost $12 at a Texas flea market and is now worth around $325. The horn couch was discovered in a small Western store in Van Nuys. “It had been there for 20 years: No one had ever asked to buy it,” Shepard recalls. Friends returning to England were persuaded to leave behind the horn chair, shown at right.

Clothing and boots that decorate the upstairs landing and hang along walls in the master bedroom are not mere ornamentation. The couple wear all 25 pairs of the cowboy boots--most dating from the ‘40s and ‘50s. Purchased for between $20 to $50, they now fetch from $150 to $500. Nick has framed his favorite piece of clothing, a red cowboy shirt with embroidered musical notes and records. Curiously, there is one thing Western that the two don’t love. Says Shepard: “We don’t like Western music, except for some of the old songs. We mainly listen to James Brown and the Rolling Stones.”