Post #237228 by Bay Park Buzzy on Sun, Jun 11, 2006 12:27 AM

Project next:
On one of my many sleepless nights, when I was worried about sanding late at night for fear of the neighbors hearing my machinery, I started sketching some ideas in my sketchbook. For the last several years, I have wanted to move my front/back yard fence out towards the street, thus extending my back yard by anoher twelve feet. The expense of materials made this project sit idle after I levelled my front yard and added railroad ties to define the fenceline. I kept expecting the fence to fall over and force me to move it out, but it just hasn't happened.
My inspiration came for the design when my neighbor a couple of doors down started remodeling his house . He made one of those setback to setback, three story, hang off of the cliff another twenty feet monster mansions. Then, just to show a lot of money doesn't necessarily accompany good taste, he made it in the manner of a castle. Looks great next to the ocean. Fits right in. The castle even has fake ramparts and those slots from which you can fire arrows at the realtors leaving free stuff on all our porches or marauders, depending on the season. Anyway, I figure if he can have the castle house, I can have the Tiki jungle house. Kind of a poor man's keeping up with the Joneses, here on my corner of lovely Bay Park.
I decided that my fence would be made of bamboo, with the fence posts being five to six foot tall carved tikis.(Don't worry, nobody will steal them, I tested it out last month-see my last post under What i learned)The concept looks something like this:

This view would be from the street, looking towards the expanded back yard

This last week, I got a bunch of pre made bamboo fencing. So it seems my fence fantasy will become a reality soon. Here is a picture of them in the front yard. the railroad ties in this picture will be just outside of the new fence

Each pole has two pre drilled holes in it. You just run a support through each, attach it to the back of the anchored tikis, and the project is finished.

Even though it will be harder to do, I'll probably make the fence and then carve the tikis after the whole thing is installed. I do not want to wait that long and it will take a while to carve all five large tikis. I'm short on bamboo poles to go completely around the yard, but the tree service just got a large load of bamboo I can use on the last portion this morning
My long term goal is to eventually turn my house into a landmark. That way, when Tiki Oasis comes back to town, it can be part of the San Diego Tiki landmarks tour. Then when the bus comes by, I would have all my tikis for sale in the driveway. That way, I wouldn't have to load them up and haul them down the road and unload them again and again. It would save me the vendor fee too. I cannot wait. thanks castle house dude!