Post #248186 by twitch on Thu, Aug 10, 2006 7:02 PM

Hey, everyone. Finally getting around to fixing & finishing my home bar.
A little back-story; while heading down the main drag in my neighborhood, I noticed this big wooden box sitting in the parking lot of a post office. Turned out to be an abandoned home tiki-bar! (How it got in it's location I can't even fathom)
Anyway, I waited it out for a week, in case some postie was planning to get it home, but it just sat, getting rained on, collecting dirt, etc., so I decided to rescue it from further deterioration, got hold of a car, loaded it up 1/2-way into the trunk and a few blocks later set it in the kitchen of my apartment.
No pix of it in it's original state; moldy grass-matted front panel, rusted out screws and spiderwebs holding it together etc, but after stripping it, replacing the moldy mats with leopard-print fabric (suede, gotten at half-off price, and definitely not the pattern I wanted - l-print fabric[or anything] is scarce around here) and covering the top with leopard-print paper glued down and slathered 5 times with poly-coat (not the best thing to do, but I was all out of ideas), it comes out to this; (note beautiful post-it-note yellow of kitchen walls)

and with the end-flap up (wood-block carving made by my dad around 30 years ago)

Still have to add the bamboo canopy, something to cover the bottom footrest, and all the little lights & deco... and I've kept the l-print suede up 'loose' in case I score some better material (got the idea from the crazy home-bar in The Book of Tiki)...
More pics hopefully tomorrow night!