The Breezeway *New A-Frame pics up!* - Costa Mesa, CA - Home Tiki Bars

L Luckydesigns Tiki Socialite Costa Mesa Joined: Sep 15, 2002 Posts: 2374	L Luckydesigns Posted posted on Mon, Aug 6, 2012 3:46 PM Thanks, Trailerpark! I'd love to hear what you liked about our build. Ben, Dinah and I spent a LOT of Saturday wrapping inflatable balls with yarn in order to make some string lamps. What a mess! Probably won't ever do that again. We'll post pics if these things ever dry. We DID end up finishing a new lamp though! Enjoy the process: Cut the wood... After burning the wood... Stapled the walls on. We had some of this material leftover from when I remodeled the kitchen in the house. Kind of a fibrous matting paper. All boxed in... Building the roof line (you can see the string lamps drying in the background)... Our thatched roof... It was getting dark by the time we got to working on the bottom of the lamp, so please excuse the dark photo. We added some tapa and framed it out with leftover split bamboo. Hanging with a blue light The image that we posted on Instagram. You can follow us @thehulagirls Hope you dig it! We are pretty happy with the finished outcome, although the tapa on the bottom is less translucent on one side than it is on the other. We may tear that section apart and redo it so that it's 'perfect' to our expectations. Spike http://www.facebook.com/thehulagirls http://www.thehulagirlsmusic.com [ Edited by: Luckydesigns 2012-08-06 15:48 ]

Thanks, Trailerpark! I'd love to hear what you liked about our build.

Ben, Dinah and I spent a LOT of Saturday wrapping inflatable balls with yarn in order to make some string lamps. What a mess! Probably won't ever do that again. We'll post pics if these things ever dry.

We DID end up finishing a new lamp though!
Enjoy the process:

Cut the wood...

After burning the wood...

Stapled the walls on. We had some of this material leftover from when I remodeled the kitchen in the house. Kind of a fibrous matting paper.

All boxed in...

Building the roof line (you can see the string lamps drying in the background)...

Our thatched roof...

It was getting dark by the time we got to working on the bottom of the lamp, so please excuse the dark photo. We added some tapa and framed it out with leftover split bamboo.

Hanging with a blue light

The image that we posted on Instagram. You can follow us @thehulagirls

Hope you dig it! We are pretty happy with the finished outcome, although the tapa on the bottom is less translucent on one side than it is on the other. We may tear that section apart and redo it so that it's 'perfect' to our expectations.

Spike
http://www.facebook.com/thehulagirls
http://www.thehulagirlsmusic.com

[ Edited by: Luckydesigns 2012-08-06 15:48 ]

Post #647145 by Luckydesigns on Mon, Aug 6, 2012 3:46 PM