Post #377902 by SurfWitch on Sun, May 4, 2008 8:09 AM

Hi all! I've been on a quest and I'm not having much luck so I'm turning to all of you for some help. I've seen some of the awesome home tiki bars everyone has done and I'm running into trouble finding places to locate things like the bamboo matts and polls for the walls and things of that nature. I've been able to find some random kitsch here and there but the big parts of the decor I've been running into dead ends . I'm wondering if anyone can point me in the direction of websites or places where I might be able to order or find such things.

Right now my husband and I are living in Connecticut and not planning to do much with the little bar area we have now because in about 9 months or so we're moving back to San Diego and we're hoping to do up the living room of whatever dwelling we find into a full tiki bar/lounge. So what I'm hoping to do now is start planning and looking for deals and gathering supplies where I find them and saving up for the more expensive bits. We will be renting so we need things that we can nail up and take down when the eventual time comes to leave and move on.

Any thoughts, tips, help of any kind would be most appreciated.