Creating a Tiki Patio - Other Crafts

N nuimaleko Member Sacramento CA Joined: May 03, 2005 Posts: 70	N nuimaleko Posted posted on Sun, May 14, 2006 6:46 PM Last year I spent and great deal of time and money on converting an area of our apartments into a Tiki Garden for myself and the rest of the residents ( I take care of the landscaping here), but the area is right next to a halfway house's back yard. While I admire the residents for getting their lives together, having 5 to 12 people all talking at once and smoking just a few feet away from dawn until well after dark, made it a less than enjoyable place to spend time. So I am concentrating on my small patio this year. The other residents will have to fend for themselves. I brought all of my tiki statues and plaques in for the winter and am not going to put them back there. I am going to put them on my own patio instead. The Tiki Garden had lots of ground space for planting palms and bananas, but my patio is all cement, so I will have to put everything in containers and there is the rub. What do you use for planters on a Tiki Patio?. Clay and most other materials look too Mediteranian, Asian, classical or modern and bamboo planters are expensive. When I lived in Hawaii most people used plain plastic pots, but the plants were so beautiful that you never really even noticed the pots. Plants don't grow as luxuriantly here in Sacramento as they did in Hawaii and on my small patio you are going to be viewing any pot up close and personal. So I have an idea of taking plain black plastic 5 and 15 gallon pots and dressing them up. My idea is to take tapa cloth patterns, either by downloading them from the internet or putting some of my tapa cloth into the scanner to get the images and making 8 by 11 print outs and using them to decoupage the pots, either covering them completely or painting the pots the background color of the tapa and cutting the tapa cloth images into strips and using them to make decoupage bands. Of course they would need a lot of clear coat to stand up to watering, but I am hoping this will work. Has anyone ever done anything like this? If so I would appreciate their imput.

Last year I spent and great deal of time and money on converting an area of our apartments into a Tiki Garden for myself and the rest of the residents ( I take care of the landscaping here), but the area is right next to a halfway house's back yard. While I admire the residents for getting their lives together, having 5 to 12 people all talking at once and smoking just a few feet away from dawn until well after dark, made it a less than enjoyable place to spend time. So I am concentrating on my small patio this year. The other residents will have to fend for themselves. I brought all of my tiki statues and plaques in for the winter and am not going to put them back there. I am going to put them on my own patio instead.
The Tiki Garden had lots of ground space for planting palms and bananas, but my patio is all cement, so I will have to put everything in containers and there is the rub. What do you use for planters on a Tiki Patio?. Clay and most other materials look too Mediteranian, Asian, classical or modern and bamboo planters are expensive. When I lived in Hawaii most people used plain plastic pots, but the plants were so beautiful that you never really even noticed the pots. Plants don't grow as luxuriantly here in Sacramento as they did in Hawaii and on my small patio you are going to be viewing any pot up close and personal.
So I have an idea of taking plain black plastic 5 and 15 gallon pots and dressing them up. My idea is to take tapa cloth patterns, either by downloading them from the internet or putting some of my tapa cloth into the scanner to get the images and making 8 by 11 print outs and using them to decoupage the pots, either covering them completely or painting the pots the background color of the tapa and cutting the tapa cloth images into strips and using them to make decoupage bands. Of course they would need a lot of clear coat to stand up to watering, but I am hoping this will work. Has anyone ever done anything like this? If so I would appreciate their imput.

Post #231981 by nuimaleko on Sun, May 14, 2006 6:46 PM