Maori/German Mashup - Home Tiki Bars

M Maddmax Member Joined: Jan 30, 2018 Posts: 18	M Maddmax Posted posted on Wed, Apr 11, 2018 4:10 PM Progress! Well, not a huge amount towards the final product, but some towards the temporary abode. I have been crawling the thrift shops and flea markets since my last post in search of accessories and accents for the main project. I found a few steals along the way, but there has been no progress in the final build. I have made some progress in creating a temporary retreat in the back yard while I am in the holding pattern for the final build. The costco special carport from many years ago has been moved off the driveway and one out of four walls have been recovered. The other three walls are DOA. With that said, sitting under said canopy is at best uncouth and I am working on changing that unhappy situation. I will be building an interior screening structure to hide the aforementioned uncouthness to help transport guests away from the modern world. This will also serve to display some of the items I have acquired over the past weeks. So, being on the cheap, I decided that tree stakes would be a good option for the "rafters". Again, this is not structural, just minimal load underneath the canopy in order to hang decorations from and to hide the ugly nasty plastic. I tried standard lashing, but the angle is fairly obtuse so I had to go with a carriage bolt which I will later hide with lashing. I also figured that I wanted an older look to it, so I found some old minwax stain sitting around to slather onto the tree stakes. Bonus: They are pressure treated so no rot in the near future. Here's the before and after stain pic. And, with anything tiki, bamboo is a must. I am planning a trip to a major supply outlet in the near future, but I had the time and money to pick up some bamboo products locally to work with for the mean time. So, I just had to pull out the torch to try my hand at the bamboo. These will be used for support for the rafters and the posts I hope to use standard lashing for these. Before After I will hopefully be done with the skeleton structure by Sunday and will update when finished. BTW, some of my finds that will be used can be found in Collecting Tiki Subforum here. Mahalo

Progress!

Well, not a huge amount towards the final product, but some towards the temporary abode. I have been crawling the thrift shops and flea markets since my last post in search of accessories and accents for the main project. I found a few steals along the way, but there has been no progress in the final build. I have made some progress in creating a temporary retreat in the back yard while I am in the holding pattern for the final build. The costco special carport from many years ago has been moved off the driveway and one out of four walls have been recovered. The other three walls are DOA. With that said, sitting under said canopy is at best uncouth and I am working on changing that unhappy situation. I will be building an interior screening structure to hide the aforementioned uncouthness to help transport guests away from the modern world. This will also serve to display some of the items I have acquired over the past weeks.

So, being on the cheap, I decided that tree stakes would be a good option for the "rafters". Again, this is not structural, just minimal load underneath the canopy in order to hang decorations from and to hide the ugly nasty plastic. I tried standard lashing, but the angle is fairly obtuse so I had to go with a carriage bolt which I will later hide with lashing. I also figured that I wanted an older look to it, so I found some old minwax stain sitting around to slather onto the tree stakes. Bonus: They are pressure treated so no rot in the near future. Here's the before and after stain pic.

And, with anything tiki, bamboo is a must. I am planning a trip to a major supply outlet in the near future, but I had the time and money to pick up some bamboo products locally to work with for the mean time. So, I just had to pull out the torch to try my hand at the bamboo. These will be used for support for the rafters and the posts I hope to use standard lashing for these.

Before

After

I will hopefully be done with the skeleton structure by Sunday and will update when finished.

BTW, some of my finds that will be used can be found in Collecting Tiki Subforum here.

Mahalo

Post #785928 by Maddmax on Wed, Apr 11, 2018 4:10 PM