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K KreepyTiki Member Joined: Mar 18, 2007 Posts: 217	K KreepyTiki Posted posted on Fri, May 29, 2015 2:32 AM Aloha Ohana! It's been quite a while since I last posted any new pics of my Paradise Cove Lounge. But after the long illness and eventual passing of my dear mom, I've gradually gotten back into the tiki loop again and I've been hard at work renovating and adding vintage treasures such as some Florian Gabriel mugs from The Luau (and chuckin' some old stuff out), as well as adding new treasures (Trader Sam's anyone?) and adjusting lighting, etc. And after a recent (and expensive!) trip to our beloved Oceanic Arts, as well as making some nice purchases at the International Tiki Marketplace (Bosko, Trader Pup and Monkeyman Design to name just a few), I have added new layers of mystery and exotic magic to my lil' semi-private island! And aside from new float lights, new puffers and ornate swag lamps, wall-carvings, standing tikis and paddles, etc., I've also added some koolamundo new rippling aquatic reflection FX on the ceiling. But rather than enumerate each addition photo by photo, I'll just let the following images speak for themselves.... I should make mention of one interesting lighting problem I encountered and how I solved it. If you happened to notice a nice big sandblasted purple float light, I got that at Oceanic Arts and fitted it with a lamp socket and cord. Simple enough. But I then got quite a surprise when I added a 25 watt bulb and switched it on -- instead of the lovely rich purple of the non-illuminated glass, the color was now an awful Pepto-Bismol pink! Eeeek! And that would just not DO! So, beginning to experiment, I next tried a clear purple party bulb. Almost no difference. Hmmmm... Strange... Next I tried a blue party bulb which, to my surprise, made the whole float light a uniform blue, with no hint of purple! Curiouser and curiouser... Becoming exasperated, I began looking around my lounge searching desperately for other possibilities. And that's when my gaze fell on a fluorescent blacklight twisty-bulb I had illuminating one corner of the room. And, remembering I had another put aside just in case, I put that one into the float and -- VOILA! EUREKA! YES! The PERFECT rich, mysterious PURPLE float-light I'd been dreaming of cast its ultraviolet beauty on the ceiling and the wall behind it! So I hope my little experiment may save others some time and trouble should you also want a proper purple to float your boat! And, lastly, I recently was delighted to find a Disney collector's pin featuring Jiminy Cricket with the exact same Tangaroa Enchanted Tiki Baby that was given to me years ago by a dear friend whose dad was the Vice President of Marketing for Disney. And here you see that actual painted fiberglass Tiki Baby still hanging happily from the bottom of a shelf in Paradise Cove! (You can see a clearer flash-pic of him/her? earlier in this thread which nicely shows the whole body and the original, NEVER-to-be-altered Disney paint-job.) Cheers and Mahalo! :drink: :tiki:

Aloha Ohana!

It's been quite a while since I last posted any new pics of my Paradise Cove Lounge. But after the long illness and eventual passing of my dear mom, I've gradually gotten back into the tiki loop again and I've been hard at work renovating and adding vintage treasures such as some Florian Gabriel mugs from The Luau (and chuckin' some old stuff out), as well as adding new treasures (Trader Sam's anyone?) and adjusting lighting, etc.

And after a recent (and expensive!) trip to our beloved Oceanic Arts, as well as making some nice purchases at the International Tiki Marketplace (Bosko, Trader Pup and Monkeyman Design to name just a few), I have added new layers of mystery and exotic magic to my lil' semi-private island! And aside from new float lights, new puffers and ornate swag lamps, wall-carvings, standing tikis and paddles, etc., I've also added some koolamundo new rippling aquatic reflection FX on the ceiling.

But rather than enumerate each addition photo by photo, I'll just let the following images speak for themselves....

I should make mention of one interesting lighting problem I encountered and how I solved it.

If you happened to notice a nice big sandblasted purple float light, I got that at Oceanic Arts and fitted it with a lamp socket and cord. Simple enough. But I then got quite a surprise when I added a 25 watt bulb and switched it on -- instead of the lovely rich purple of the non-illuminated glass, the color was now an awful Pepto-Bismol pink! Eeeek! And that would just not DO!

So, beginning to experiment, I next tried a clear purple party bulb. Almost no difference. Hmmmm... Strange... Next I tried a blue party bulb which, to my surprise, made the whole float light a uniform blue, with no hint of purple! Curiouser and curiouser... Becoming exasperated, I began looking around my lounge searching desperately for other possibilities. And that's when my gaze fell on a fluorescent blacklight twisty-bulb I had illuminating one corner of the room. And, remembering I had another put aside just in case, I put that one into the float and -- VOILA! EUREKA! YES! The PERFECT rich, mysterious PURPLE float-light I'd been dreaming of cast its ultraviolet beauty on the ceiling and the wall behind it!

So I hope my little experiment may save others some time and trouble should you also want a proper purple to float your boat!

And, lastly, I recently was delighted to find a Disney collector's pin featuring Jiminy Cricket with the exact same Tangaroa Enchanted Tiki Baby that was given to me years ago by a dear friend whose dad was the Vice President of Marketing for Disney. And here you see that actual painted fiberglass Tiki Baby still hanging happily from the bottom of a shelf in Paradise Cove! (You can see a clearer flash-pic of him/her? earlier in this thread which nicely shows the whole body and the original, NEVER-to-be-altered Disney paint-job.)

Cheers and Mahalo! :drink: :tiki:

Post #743820 by KreepyTiki on Fri, May 29, 2015 2:32 AM