Post #411762 by BeezleBug on Sun, Oct 5, 2008 9:31 AM

There are some very cool places on this thread. Makes me wonder why there isn't more Tiki in the world!

Here are a few pics of my home office. I spend a good deal of time in the office making a living, so I figured I should make it someplace fun to hang out.

Now, it's by no means 100% Tiki. However, there are tiki mugs, glass fishing floats, flotsam and jetsam, nautical themed items, shells, contemporary tiki carvings, an artificial tropical tree, Shag art, a giant fork and spoon, and a shellacked pufferfish.

I personally retrieved the fishing floats and flotsam from beachcombing trips to the north shore of Lanai'i (my brother lived there for about 10 years). The walls are hand-painted and textured. I built the extra-long desk from scrap wood and aged it to look like it was a chunk from a shipwreck that had washed up on shore. The legs are wrapped with rope and covered with barnacle-like shells. The shelves are also custom built and have weathered edges as if they had been floating in the ocean for a long time. The non-Tiki items, which there are many, are souvenirs from my days working in film production. Most of the books are software books as I'm a computer animator by trade (all the art books are in the other room).

In the corner opposite the desk, I have a little reading area. The small window beside the chair is a miniature diorama of a grotto. I can flick a few switchs to turn on an artificial rain storm in the grotto and change the lighting from day to sunset or night. I love the sound of rain. Since it rains so rarely and briefly in Southern Nevada, I figured I would just make my own thunderstorms!