Post #111000 by Exoticat on Sun, Aug 29, 2004 1:24 AM

This is what it looked like before I started to work on it. Ugly rubbermaids with Tiki Labels... a real eyesore. The menu board I picked up on eBay and changed the black frame it came with to a bamboo one. I also custom designed a new sign for the top of it. The old sign can be seen hanging at an angle waiting to be removed.

Then I did a rough sketch of some ideas in April. I was going to do a mural on black velvet with a blacklight hidden above it under the HUTIKIHI sign. Scrapped that idea when I realized I had more art than I did wall space. The mural is now going to be above the stairs and completely different and waaaay bigger. I didn't even know that big Red Tiki existed when I did that sketch. Talk about a case of creative visualization...I found it about 2 weeks later. I still created the glass blown topped electric tiki torches, I just put them on both sides of the art gallery wall (which you can't see).

This is what it looks like tonight with that "adjustment" that I mentioned. :wink: It's shot with the flash on so you can't catch the mood lighting, but you can see all the tropicals at the bottom. They are underlit with green lighting (which doesn't show up).