Post #811522 by Nurbel on Wed, Dec 13, 2023 7:12 AM

Hi there, I'm new to the site and have a huge amount of respect for all the amazing bars on here. My Tiki bar adventure started with buying a house in 2015 that had many Witco items in it including a great fountain, a bar, a carved door and a lot of Witco trim. The house had sat on the market for a while and one of the reasons was the dark and "ugly" basement but my wife and I loved it at first site. The previous owners knew nothing about other than it was put in place by the original owners in the sixties. We didn't know anything about Witco at the time other than this was a very cool and unique collection and we wanted it all included in the sale.

We had young kids at the time and the basement soon was taken over by toys. Fast forward to Covid and working from home and the kids were now teenagers and the basement bar had become a makeshift home theatre. I knew I wanted to redo the basement into something for hosting once the pandemic ended and to reflect how we currently used the space (movies and game nights) and to honour the Witco collection that we loved so much when we bought the house.

I expect that some may find our Tiki lacking, but I wanted to share here since I don't know of anyone in my city that has a Tiki bar and can't really share this passion with anyone locally.

I'll start with some before pics and post some progress pics after.