Post #282813 by Tiki Trav on Sat, Feb 3, 2007 12:46 AM

On 2007-02-02 10:09, DrMiguelito wrote:

On 2007-01-31 15:15, Tiki Trav wrote:
hey guys.. some great tips in this thread.. if any of you are on myspace check out my home tiki bar at http://www.myspace.com/tikitrav
it was quite a feat to construct it all free-standing as we are renting and not allowed to attach anything to the walls etc.. It got it's first real test on new years eve and it totally rocked.. the bar itself and the bamboo (plenty of it) came from kings cross hotel in sydney which was being refurbed and is a pretty old item.. 70's?.. the big tikis on the fridges i made at work and are big digital prints on selfadhesive vinyl and the big palm photo i took in fiji and printed onto canvas.. anyways..
Cheers..

Your place looks great.

One question -- how did you get the bamboo paneling to stay up, if you can't attach it to the wall behind it? I'm planning out the tikification of my apartment's balcony at the moment. The walls of the building are bright yellow stucco, which is both ugly and near-impossible to get nails into, so I'm thinking of just covering it up with paneling. That would both cover up the ugliness and give me a surface for hanging things from. I'm not prohibited from nailing into the walls like you are, but again, stucco is a pain, and a freestanding panel would be easier to break down during the rainy season or if/when I move. Suggestions?

basically we were lucky to have the brick columns, we simply cut some wood to fit between the columns but cut slightly over-size so we could force it in without need for fixings etc then just screwed the bamboo to that.. this probably won't help in your situation but maybe a similar method would work, like building a frame with the bamboo etc attached then screw it on with one screw in each corner..only 4 holes in your wall...