Post #527622 by Club Nouméa on Mon, May 3, 2010 5:01 AM

Kia ora!

Greetings from Wanganui! This is my first post, so apologies in advance for not doing advanced stuff like adding pics yet (I'll get there...).

Having decided to spruce up the kitchen counter facing out onto my living room/dining room, and living in a house in a bush location with cedarwood panelling and strandboard flooring, a Pacific theme seemed like a natural option. And given I have spent more time in Nouméa than in any other place in the South Pacific (outside New Zealand), a bar based on that city also seemed like a natural choice for a theme, so recently I have been digging out old maps, postcards, coins and photos I took over there and augmenting them with other South Pacific clutter I have found in the antique/junk shops here. It is early days yet, but the clutter is starting to come together.

I have been looking at some of the photos on this forum and can only say I am definitely not worthy. There's an enormous amount of inspirational material here and I am awestruck.

As New Caledonia is officially in Melanesia (although the Loyalty Islands are a crossover point for Polynesian/Melanesian culture), I am curious to know if there is anyone out there with a bar based on a Melanesian theme rather than a Polynesian theme...? Any photos perhaps?

I hope that in the not too distant future I will be able to present "before and after" photos.