Sven's perfect tiki bar ....by GROG @ Tonga Hut !! - General Tiki

T tikiyaki Tiki Socialite The Exotic Port of REDONDO BEACH, CA Joined: May 18, 2004 Posts: 2725	T tikiyaki Posted posted on Wed, Oct 29, 2008 10:34 AM Actually I love the pecky cedar wood covering on the walls. That's a classic Mid Century Modern home material that gets used for exterior siding as well as interior rumpus room walls...You don't see it used much anymore and it's great looking stuff. I would say don't touch that. Just a little more of a closed in / private feel for the booths, by having a thatched/bamboo hut roof over those booths along the walls with some pufferfish lights. I think it would make those booths cozier. The ceiling is high enough so that you'd still be able to sit up on the booths AND have those hut roofs. I think that front booth would be great if it had more of a conversation pit type of deal....a few couches and a coffee table and flokati rug that can be moved for events...similar to what the BigFoot Lodge has, where people lounge and have their drinks, and on the emptier nights the big open dance floor won't make the place looks so barren, and give the place a little Mid Century Modern Swankiness...just a little....aka Tiki Modern. I have an amazing Preway metal funnel shaped fireplace that would be great there too....I have a fake electric firelog in there and it looks great. Very early 60's modern. Anyway, it's not my bar, but if it was these are things I would do Tiki Modern, baby ! Do you have your TIKIYAKI ORCHESTRA CD YET ? http://www.myspace.com/tikiyaki http://www.tikiyakiorchestra.com [ Edited by: tikiyaki 2008-10-29 10:37 ] [ Edited by: tikiyaki 2008-10-29 10:40 ]

Actually I love the pecky cedar wood covering on the walls. That's a classic Mid Century Modern home material that gets used for exterior siding as well as interior rumpus room walls...You don't see it used much anymore and it's great looking stuff.
I would say don't touch that. Just a little more of a closed in / private feel for the booths, by having a thatched/bamboo hut roof over those booths along the walls with some pufferfish lights. I think it would make those booths cozier.

The ceiling is high enough so that you'd still be able to sit up on the booths AND have those hut roofs.

I think that front booth would be great if it had more of a conversation pit type of deal....a few couches and a coffee table and flokati rug that can be moved for events...similar to what the BigFoot Lodge has, where people lounge and have their drinks, and on the emptier nights the big open dance floor won't make the place looks so barren, and give the place a little Mid Century Modern Swankiness...just a little....aka Tiki Modern. I have an amazing Preway metal funnel shaped fireplace that would be great there too....I have a fake electric firelog in there and it looks great. Very early 60's modern.

Anyway, it's not my bar, but if it was these are things I would do

Tiki Modern, baby !

Do you have your TIKIYAKI ORCHESTRA CD YET ?
http://www.myspace.com/tikiyaki
http://www.tikiyakiorchestra.com

[ Edited by: tikiyaki 2008-10-29 10:37 ]

[ Edited by: tikiyaki 2008-10-29 10:40 ]

Post #416103 by tikiyaki on Wed, Oct 29, 2008 10:34 AM