What is the right bar stools for a tiki bar? - Collecting Tiki

R Rattiki Member Key West, FL Joined: May 03, 2003 Posts: 422	R Rattiki Posted posted on Mon, Sep 11, 2006 2:28 AM On 2006-08-19 14:17, Sneakytiki wrote:...answer what would be the best bar stools for a pseudo rattan ark. Rattan just makes better furniture, period, bamboo is good for wall treatments and MANY other applications. If you want the bamboo look for furniture, you generally want the bamboo surface as a decorative layer attached over stronger materials, I have a bamboo bar and that's how it was made. Well yes rattan can last a life time if taken care of, but bamboo furniture is quite durable. Again it is the joint strength more than anything that goes, not the breaking of the bamboo which you would have to take a hammer to it to break it (hell they make their houses out of it!). I know folks that use it in their bars and restaurants in the PI and it lasts them several years plus. That is PROFESSIONAL use with customers coming and going, so for the average Joe bamboo would be fine for probably 5-10+ years of use. Also many people use it for home furniture there as it is cheap. Beds, sofas, tables, lamps anything that we would use modern press board furniture for and it lasts about as long. The rattan you could leave to your grandkids but it costs plenty. I wish we still had the stuff my Grandparents got when they lived in Subic during '49-'51, it was so KEWL! :D [ Edited by: Rattiki 2006-09-11 02:30 ]

On 2006-08-19 14:17, Sneakytiki wrote:...answer what would be the best bar stools for a pseudo rattan ark. Rattan just makes better furniture, period, bamboo is good for wall treatments and MANY other applications.
If you want the bamboo look for furniture, you generally want the bamboo surface as a decorative layer attached over stronger materials, I have a bamboo bar and that's how it was made.

Well yes rattan can last a life time if taken care of, but bamboo furniture is quite durable. Again it is the joint strength more than anything that goes, not the breaking of the bamboo which you would have to take a hammer to it to break it (hell they make their houses out of it!). I know folks that use it in their bars and restaurants in the PI and it lasts them several years plus. That is PROFESSIONAL use with customers coming and going, so for the average Joe bamboo would be fine for probably 5-10+ years of use. Also many people use it for home furniture there as it is cheap. Beds, sofas, tables, lamps anything that we would use modern press board furniture for and it lasts about as long. The rattan you could leave to your grandkids but it costs plenty.

I wish we still had the stuff my Grandparents got when they lived in Subic during '49-'51, it was so KEWL! :D

[ Edited by: Rattiki 2006-09-11 02:30 ]

Post #253532 by Rattiki on Mon, Sep 11, 2006 2:28 AM