Post #782989 by tikiskip on Tue, Jan 9, 2018 3:02 PM

So you want some light but mostly a light so you can see at the bar.

If you put a amber or orange low watt bulb in your shell light you will get a better over all look.
THEN buy a few spot lights to put up in the top of your thatch overhang (hide them so you don't really see them)
This way these lights put the light where you want it and it looks like the shell light is providing your task lighting, you could even dim these task lights to get the lighting just how you want it.

If you were to look at Disney or other professional lighting in bars ect this is what they do.

The blue walls are going to make it hard to get that dim hut look, whatever you do with that light it's going to be tinted by that blue color.
If you put lots o stuff on the walls then your light would be less bright bouncing off the wall as there would not be as much blue tint.

The old tiki joints just had a bunch of low watt lights everywhere that lit the place with little lighting spread all over.

Plus hey, these places were dark.