Post #407213 by boutiki on Wed, Sep 10, 2008 9:11 PM

Well, I just spent my entire day painstakingly pulling hundreds of bamboo strips down one by one... and I couldn't be happier.

I got word from a friend that an acquaintance of theirs just bought a house with a bamboo bar in the basement they did not want. I assumed it was a free standing bar. Was I ever wrong.

Built in the early 1950s this room had remained unaltered (except for the wallpaper "upgrade" in the '70s). There was even the original left-overs in the crawlspace behind the basement. I told them they should keep it and enjoy it, but the husband wanted his "guy room". Whatever.

Here is all the bamboo loaded up in the old Econoline. They range in length from 3 to 7 1/2 feet, most are about 5 feet long:

And here is the room before I took out the pry-bar:

One of the best things to me is the wonderful patina of this aged bamboo as well as the history. I guess we got a good start on the materials to build out our new Tiki room. If we have bamboo left over, we'll offer it here on Tiki Central first.

Reduce, reuse, recycle!
-Duke

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[ Edited by: boutiki 2008-11-07 09:10 ]