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JJ Jungle John Member South Florida Joined: Feb 01, 2015 Posts: 43	JJ Jungle John Posted posted on Thu, Feb 12, 2015 5:36 PM Progress is moving ahead these days on the Aloha Hut. I did find some older style bar stools that might be okay once they're refurbished. Also, I gave the tiki torches a test run this evening. They are working great and hopefully they are keeping the mosquitos at bay. South Seas Sally commented that the hut looked "foreboding" which was not the intended look: Here's a first reveal at the mysterious dark interior of the "Aloha Hut". You might be able to detect the outlines of a nascent tiki bar. It's made of all repurposed wood. Also, the mirror is a garbage find and it will be used as a backing for the bottle and curio cabinet behind the bar, which will also be fabricated form old recycled wood. Tiki huts are supposed to be kind of rustic. The "bar" area is really a little covered area on the side of the backyard shed where we used to put the garbage cans, but I moved the cans over to the dog area. So far, with this project I've been a real penny-pinching, tight fisted cheapskate. I want the tiki theme, but I just don't want to pay too much for it: Speaking of being a cheapskate, I found this local place that wholesales nautical themed stuff, and boy, they had a great collection of good old junky, er, "collectible" goodies. But, the prices were a bit steep. For example the smallest glass floats were $20. Now, I looked on Amazon and found they had the same thing for $12.99. I'm NOT mentioning the name of this place for a couple of reasons, so please don't ask me: So, spending $20, or even $13, for a decorator float is still too much money. My talented South Seas Sally got her old macrame mojo going and started practicing on netting some cheap-o glass globes from the thrift store. Total cost, about 25 cents, plus the cost of the twenty-year old twine. She's still relearning macrame. Okay, our "float" is not an authentic float, but it looks okay to me. South Seas Sally has to find a different instructable however for the next 6" globe. The project is meeting all the goals of being FUN and super cheap!

Progress is moving ahead these days on the Aloha Hut. I did find some older style bar stools that might be okay once they're refurbished. Also, I gave the tiki torches a test run this evening. They are working great and hopefully they are keeping the mosquitos at bay. South Seas Sally commented that the hut looked "foreboding" which was not the intended look:

Here's a first reveal at the mysterious dark interior of the "Aloha Hut". You might be able to detect the outlines of a nascent tiki bar. It's made of all repurposed wood. Also, the mirror is a garbage find and it will be used as a backing for the bottle and curio cabinet behind the bar, which will also be fabricated form old recycled wood. Tiki huts are supposed to be kind of rustic. The "bar" area is really a little covered area on the side of the backyard shed where we used to put the garbage cans, but I moved the cans over to the dog area. So far, with this project I've been a real penny-pinching, tight fisted cheapskate. I want the tiki theme, but I just don't want to pay too much for it:

Speaking of being a cheapskate, I found this local place that wholesales nautical themed stuff, and boy, they had a great collection of good old junky, er, "collectible" goodies. But, the prices were a bit steep. For example the smallest glass floats were $20. Now, I looked on Amazon and found they had the same thing for $12.99. I'm NOT mentioning the name of this place for a couple of reasons, so please don't ask me:

So, spending $20, or even $13, for a decorator float is still too much money. My talented South Seas Sally got her old macrame mojo going and started practicing on netting some cheap-o glass globes from the thrift store. Total cost, about 25 cents, plus the cost of the twenty-year old twine. She's still relearning macrame. Okay, our "float" is not an authentic float, but it looks okay to me. South Seas Sally has to find a different instructable however for the next 6" globe.

The project is meeting all the goals of being FUN and super cheap!

Post #737258 by Jungle John on Thu, Feb 12, 2015 5:36 PM