What can we do to give this place a shot in the arm? - General Tiki

B bigbrotiki Tiki Socialite Tiki Island, above the Silverlake Joined: Mar 25, 2002 Posts: 11621	B bigbrotiki Posted posted on Thu, Dec 28, 2006 4:48 PM On 2006-12-27 19:17, RevBambooBen wrote: That's what fake plants are for!!! Which is a challenging undertaking IF you want to decorate the correct (meaning VINTAGE) Tiki Lounge way...because then they would have to be PLASTIC plants! Just like Tikis and Beachcomber lamps, plastic plants were eradicated as "bad taste" from the face of this earth, and the "tasteful" cloth plants have taken over for them. But if you look at authentic Tiki havens like the Chin Tiki, they had a virtual JUNGLE of plastic greenery. [ Edited by: bigbrotiki 2006-12-28 16:54 ]

On 2006-12-27 19:17, RevBambooBen wrote:

That's what fake plants are for!!!

Which is a challenging undertaking IF you want to decorate the correct (meaning VINTAGE) Tiki Lounge way...because then they would have to be PLASTIC plants!

Just like Tikis and Beachcomber lamps, plastic plants were eradicated as "bad taste" from the face of this earth, and the "tasteful" cloth plants have taken over for them. But if you look at authentic Tiki havens like the Chin Tiki, they had a virtual JUNGLE of plastic greenery.

[ Edited by: bigbrotiki 2006-12-28 16:54 ]

Post #275348 by bigbrotiki on Thu, Dec 28, 2006 4:48 PM