Post #238795 by Bay Park Buzzy on Tue, Jun 20, 2006 4:18 PM

A fellow member of the Tiki Central family hired me to fix up a lounging area that was constructed a few years ago. The project would entail making a deck and re-fashioning an originally thrown together thatch style roof. I had no idea what the area or existing structure looked like. I had measurements of how far apart four 4x4s were and sent back a plan drawing in advance to iron out the details and make sure that what I envisioned was correct. We tweaked it slightly and I was able to come up with a complete set of materials that would be on site and painted prior to my arrival.
This is what it looked like when I showed up.

There was patio furniture and outdoor carpet that were removed prior to this picture
first thing I did was build a 8x8' deck under and around the existing structure

Hey! That tiki looks familiar. What's it doing all the way up here. That thing gets around. I saw it in Del Mar last week. Bay Park yesterday...Tomorrow? I think he found his home, finally.


I brought about a dozen pieces of bamboo up with me too. I didn't want to sit in traffic for the next three hours so I started to add bamboo facings to the wooden structure to kill a couple of hours. Looks like time well spent.

Then I started to get out of control and really have fun and I made this railing/fence thing

We were quickly running out of daylight. For the time being, we threw some 4x4' grass skirts on the roof until I go back in a couple of weeks to finish it.


Looks like it will be a cool place to hang out. Not bad for a day's work. Makes me wonder why I don't do more stuff around my place. Oh yeah, that's right...I'm poor. Oh well. At least I can look at the pretty pictures of something I made.
Coming soon: Chapter 2: Buzzy Raises the Roof (Yo, Yo!)
Builder Buzzy Out!

[ Edited by: Bay Park Buzzy 2013-05-03 00:48 ]