The Zombie Hideaway - Home Tiki Bars

T TabooDan Tiki Socialite Coast of BC now in Crowsnest, AB., Canada Joined: Jul 18, 2004 Posts: 691	T TabooDan Posted posted on Sun, Jan 2, 2011 11:15 AM Here's some of the finished pictures of this project. Sorry if this dragged on a bit. I wanted to show the step shots in case anyone wanted some details. Once installed with glass: You can now see another frame that was added around the frame I finsished and pictured inlast post. I had a problem. Once I was ready to go and after I mounted the glass to the back of my frame, it was too tight and the rope lite pushed the original frame away from the wall. I built another frame acting like a spacer and added the new frame starting at the edge of the cavity and having it come out about 1.25" from the original frame. I then mounted the original frame to the new one. It now gave me the depth I needed so the rope lite would sit nice and the frame could be mounted properly. More work but I couldn't do much else as I had the glass cut and secured to the back of original frame already and I didn't want to change that. In this shot, you can just see the glow of the rope lite on the bamboo: Sorry for the crappy pic's! We all know how the flash drowns out alot of the mood and atmosphere. It looks WAY different in person and I am no photographer so you aren't really seeing what it truly looks like. The whole image glows and the details and contrast with the materials like the brown and black velvet, bamboo, and dark wood looks pretty good. Okay, now the following isn't really a good picture but I kind of wanted to include it to show the reflection of the light that is just outside the doorway at the bottom of the stairs: I was trying to be Artsy Fartsy but just don't have the camera (or the time) to set it up properly. The flash had to be used or you only see a blur. I will have a friend of mine shoot the room properly when it's done so we'll see how those turn out one day. This is the view coming down the stairs and into the Zombie Hideaway: The fixture I made with a few other vintage lamp pieces. Brass canopy, small ship's wheel, misc. light hardware and a glass globe covered in old fishnet. I may add a colored bulb one day but for now it's just white. More to come. Mahalo and Happy New Year!! TabooDan EDITED TO REPLACE LOST IMAGES. [ Edited by: TabooDan 2011-03-19 08:46 ]

Here's some of the finished pictures of this project. Sorry if this dragged on a bit. I wanted to show the step shots in case anyone wanted some details.

Once installed with glass:

You can now see another frame that was added around the frame I finsished and pictured inlast post. I had a problem.
Once I was ready to go and after I mounted the glass to the back of my frame, it was too tight and the rope lite pushed the original frame away from the wall.
I built another frame acting like a spacer and added the new frame starting at the edge of the cavity and having it come out about 1.25" from the original frame. I then mounted the original frame to the new one.
It now gave me the depth I needed so the rope lite would sit nice and the frame could be mounted properly. More work but I couldn't do much else as I had the glass cut and secured to the back of original frame already and I didn't want to change that.

In this shot, you can just see the glow of the rope lite on the bamboo:

Sorry for the crappy pic's! We all know how the flash drowns out alot of the mood and atmosphere. It looks WAY different in person and I am no photographer so you aren't really seeing what it truly looks like. The whole image glows and the details and contrast with the materials like the brown and black velvet, bamboo, and dark wood looks pretty good.

Okay, now the following isn't really a good picture but I kind of wanted to include it to show the reflection of the light that is just outside the doorway at the bottom of the stairs:

I was trying to be Artsy Fartsy but just don't have the camera (or the time) to set it up properly. The flash had to be used or you only see a blur. I will have a friend of mine shoot the room properly when it's done so we'll see how those turn out one day.

This is the view coming down the stairs and into the Zombie Hideaway:

The fixture I made with a few other vintage lamp pieces. Brass canopy, small ship's wheel, misc. light hardware and a glass globe covered in old fishnet. I may add a colored bulb one day but for now it's just white.

More to come.
Mahalo and Happy New Year!!
TabooDan

EDITED TO REPLACE LOST IMAGES.

[ Edited by: TabooDan 2011-03-19 08:46 ]

Post #570926 by TabooDan on Sun, Jan 2, 2011 11:15 AM