Post #637370 by Alefoot on Tue, May 22, 2012 12:00 AM

Some fun, on a budget.
(Begging pardon if this is the wrong place for such a post.)

Living a lot of the time in a one-room concrete-box rental, I wanted to give my rum and other cocktail fixings a Tiki home. Well, Tiki-ish, anyway. The self-imposed rules were that other than the base carcase and drawers from an Ikea kitchen unit, everything had to be thrift-store or CraigsList. Bonus points for 'Free'!

Here's the end result. Lots of 'not really Tiki' stuff happening so if that kind of heresy offends then best to look away :)

Oh, and the superstructure had to be all lashed; no screws or nails. It's solid enough to climb on. If you don't weigh any more than a parrot or a small monkey, anyway.
Kudos and thanks to Tikiskip for the post of pointers on lamp-from-basket making.
I'm well aware that a liquor cabinet pales in comparison to the amazing home bars normally posted here, but it is doing its job...

And the mood in the room is an order of magnitude less clinical than it used to be. Cabinet door is faux packing crate from scrap from the firewood pile - the handle used to be part of a tourist trophy salad set. Ridge beam was a cedar fence board, cladding is recycled babmboo blinds, and so on. The 'jungle' grows out of another faux packing crate, on castors so it can be wheeled aside for cleaning.

cheers!
Alefoot