Nearly 2 Years in the Making - Tiki Bar is Finished!! (tons of pics) - Other Crafts

4 420greg Member Orlando, FL Joined: Jan 20, 2005 Posts: 40	4 420greg Posted posted on Wed, Jul 5, 2006 7:21 AM When I first bought my home 5 years ago I started to clear the area to the right of my house. It was basically an overgrown concrete slab that was used for RV parking. Since I did not have an RV, and the new backyard fence would prevent it from ever being used for that purpose, I decided to do something different with the space. I cleared out all the vegetation and painted the slab gray. And that is how it sat for 2 years. I was not sure what I wanted to do with the space. In March of 2003 I went to a party at a friends house and saw the most amazing charcoal grill ever. I just had to have one. The 2 guys that built it only made 2 of them, I had to convince them ($$) to build me a third. The grill sat out alone for about a year. I decided to build an arbour over the space to offer some shade. The patio furniture was also purchased about this time. It was also about this time we decided to go with a tropical/tiki theme for the space. I work with a lady who's husband is a mural painter. We gave him a picture we took in Costa Rica on our honeymoon. He are the the results: Time to build a bar: The cherry veneer bartop looked really good but it would not stand up to the weather, so we bought 2000 pieces of stained glass off ebay and re-did the bar top: Some random pictures of the bar: This is an old freezer converted in to a huge cooler: Water feature: We found this ceramic head buried in the flower bed: The Tikis: I have a 4th tiki but he appears to have avoided the camera. Pics of the entire area and some random accessories: I have some night shots I will post in a few. I need to go in to photoshop and do some resizing.

When I first bought my home 5 years ago I started to clear the area to the right of my house. It was basically an overgrown concrete slab that was used for RV parking. Since I did not have an RV, and the new backyard fence would prevent it from ever being used for that purpose, I decided to do something different with the space.

I cleared out all the vegetation and painted the slab gray.

And that is how it sat for 2 years. I was not sure what I wanted to do with the space.
In March of 2003 I went to a party at a friends house and saw the most amazing charcoal grill ever.

I just had to have one. The 2 guys that built it only made 2 of them, I had to convince them ($$) to build me a third.

The grill sat out alone for about a year. I decided to build an arbour over the space to offer some shade.

The patio furniture was also purchased about this time.
It was also about this time we decided to go with a tropical/tiki theme for the space.

I work with a lady who's husband is a mural painter. We gave him a picture we took in Costa Rica on our honeymoon. He are the the results:

Time to build a bar:

The cherry veneer bartop looked really good but it would not stand up to the weather, so we bought 2000 pieces of stained glass off ebay and re-did the bar top: