Post #66553 by suicide_sam on Fri, Dec 26, 2003 7:57 PM

As I have been getting settled into my new place the number one priotiy has been a nice tiki bar. Thanks to Chiki Tiki (AKA Tiki Diablo) I am on my way to having a kick ass bar. I drew a couple of sketches of what I wanted the bar to look like and Danny went to town improving the ideas and actually making them happen. I wanted to make the front look like a real bar's walls. I decided to seperate the front into three segments, both right and left sides I wanted to look like the wall at the Hale Hawaii, which is covered with that interwoven stuff, thatchery I think, and has bamboo along the edges and through the middle.

Other place like the Hawaiian room have Tapa on the walls and tiki decor on top, so I figured for the middle segment to put some genuine vintage tapa, which I scored on ebay, and a mask on top of it. For the mask I wanted to go with a Kanaloa head since Kanaloa was the first tiki I ever bought. Danny also carved the Kanaloa.

I'm putting the bar in a cornner and asked Danny to build it in an L shape because I eventually intend to make it look like a hut is inside the house.

Later on we will add a roof and deck out the back. To finish the effect of an actuall tiki hut inside the living room.

Slowly but surley my place is coming along. I found a couch and chairs rattan set from the 60's, I still have to redo the cushions on it though. I also have gotten a couple of other goddies from danny that are helping the ambiance. Hopefully once winter is over I can finally have that BBQ that I put off before, my bar should be totally done by then.

Thanks to Danny for having the skills to make an idea a realtiy.

[ Edited by: suicide_sam on 2003-12-26 19:59 ]