Capricorn's Folly - our teeny tiny tiki kitchen hangout - Home Tiki Bars

R Rheanna Member North Vancouver, BC Joined: May 07, 2018 Posts: 5	R Rheanna Posted posted on Tue, May 8, 2018 7:46 PM Last year, after 14 years of renting, I was lucky enough to be able to buy a one bedroom condo! (I'm in Vancouver, so getting out of the renter's market is a huge feat, haha) After a year of saving up and planning, it's finally happening and I'm fixing up the kitchen to be tiki themed! When it's done, we'll get folding bar chairs (possibly a folding bar table too) so we can hang out in it. It can't accommodate more than four people, but it's still a dream come true! Part of why we chose is the kitchen is that this was it before! My realtor did not understand why I was so excited about wood paneled cabinets and counter tops, or the patterned brown and cream linoleum floor. So much potential! Started out painting the ceiling and installing some cheap-o LED lights we picked up on sale after xmas. Inspired by a local tiki bar in The Waldorf Hotel in Vancouver, and of course, the beginning of Pirates of the Caribbean. Some painting came next. I'd love to be able to do tapa cloth, but I'm not too sure about how well it will last in our tiny kitchen (steam from cooking and needing to be wiped down a fair bit). I'm a graphic designer by trade and do work for Shameful Tiki Room. I've made a lot of patterned borders like this for them, and decided to incorporate that motif into the design by cutting up dollar store sponges into stamps. The exciting part! This first bamboo and lauhala matting going up. (Pardon the mess around it!) The matting was way easier to put up than expected, but the bamboo was a bit tricky. I discovered that you can measure it as much as you want, but the natural curves in it will throw it off a bit! I'll be filling in the gaps in the corners and adding some rope to hide my messy cuts! The nail heads will be filled over with wood putty once it's all up. We're currently in the process of putting up matting on the main wall of the kitchen! Fingers crossed it will be done this weekend. I've also got a divider curtain to sew, some wood to dremel designs into, and some wooden frames to stain and fix up!

Last year, after 14 years of renting, I was lucky enough to be able to buy a one bedroom condo! (I'm in Vancouver, so getting out of the renter's market is a huge feat, haha) After a year of saving up and planning, it's finally happening and I'm fixing up the kitchen to be tiki themed! When it's done, we'll get folding bar chairs (possibly a folding bar table too) so we can hang out in it. It can't accommodate more than four people, but it's still a dream come true!

Part of why we chose is the kitchen is that this was it before! My realtor did not understand why I was so excited about wood paneled cabinets and counter tops, or the patterned brown and cream linoleum floor. So much potential!

Started out painting the ceiling and installing some cheap-o LED lights we picked up on sale after xmas. Inspired by a local tiki bar in The Waldorf Hotel in Vancouver, and of course, the beginning of Pirates of the Caribbean.

Some painting came next. I'd love to be able to do tapa cloth, but I'm not too sure about how well it will last in our tiny kitchen (steam from cooking and needing to be wiped down a fair bit). I'm a graphic designer by trade and do work for Shameful Tiki Room. I've made a lot of patterned borders like this for them, and decided to incorporate that motif into the design by cutting up dollar store sponges into stamps.

The exciting part! This first bamboo and lauhala matting going up. (Pardon the mess around it!) The matting was way easier to put up than expected, but the bamboo was a bit tricky. I discovered that you can measure it as much as you want, but the natural curves in it will throw it off a bit! I'll be filling in the gaps in the corners and adding some rope to hide my messy cuts! The nail heads will be filled over with wood putty once it's all up.

We're currently in the process of putting up matting on the main wall of the kitchen! Fingers crossed it will be done this weekend. I've also got a divider curtain to sew, some wood to dremel designs into, and some wooden frames to stain and fix up!

Post #786643 by Rheanna on Tue, May 8, 2018 7:46 PM