Post #434298 by TabooDan on Sat, Feb 14, 2009 12:21 PM

Hey Swanky, Perfect!! Thanks!
I'm really trying to get the feel of something you would have seen years ago and in an actual restaurant or bar. Well, that's the goal but I just don't have the space to do the stuff I would really love to do.
A few things I get to do are on the smaller scale!

The sea grass matting on the roof I have always wanted to do as it looks really classy.

This card of the Mauna Loa, as I've shown before, really made up my mind to try it:

This one of the beautiful exotic Papeete Room at the Kon Tiki in Dallas screams class to me and also helped:

Oh, and this nice one of the Islands Restaurant in San Diego:

I'm not copying what these places did just using it as an influence for what I can try to create at home.
It was quite an ordeal dealing with that sea grass matting as the sections are all sewn together and come in a large 10'x12' piece. We had to cut the twine between the panels to get the size and sections we wanted and then re-tie them so they didn't come apart. It was a long job but it was well worth it.
It sure made the pieces a bit easier to deal with and install as well as keep the sections symmetrical on the ceiling.

TabooDan