Wacky ideas for tiki bars! Input Needed! - General Tiki

J johntiki Member MD Joined: Mar 31, 2002 Posts: 1528	J johntiki Posted posted on Fri, Mar 26, 2004 8:26 AM I have an idea for the Pi-Yi Grotto that sounds a little insane so hear me out...I have a big panel of louvered doors when you get to the bottom of the steps heading to the tiki bar, behind them is the circuit breaker, water meter, etc. - they are pretty boring and obviously have little tiki appeal...I have a vision of what I can do to dress them up and make them one of the coolest Disneyesque/Tonga Room features around. Cosmetically, I want to repaint the doors in a weathered white and replace the lame brass knobs with handles fashioned from giant spoons and forks tikis. Now, here's where the wackiness ensues - I'm planning on getting some fake palm fronds and placing them through some of the louvers at random to produce the effect of a jungle outside the door pushing its way in. I was going to place a CD player inside the doors with a special effects CD of jungle noises but now I want to go a little farther. I want to create occasional thunderstorms with flashing lightning and thunder claps behind the doors. I've been spending the morning scanning Halloween websites (they even have newsgroups for people who go all out to do their houses up for the holiday! - go figure) looking for a way to make this happen as inexpensively as possible - I've found machines that work off sound effects CDs to produce synchronized lightning effect but I've got a closet for God's sake, I don't want to spend $100.00 to do this! I've seen kits that will supposedly produce the effects I'm looking for cheaply but, since I've never used a soldering iron or fooled around with building one of those electronic kits I'm at a loss...anyone out there have any experience with this stuff or have any suggestions? I don't want a constant thunderstorm, do you think I could put it on a timer to go off and on every 20 minutes or so? Any ideas for other ways to dress up the doors (perhaps faux warning signs or welcoming entrance signs proclaiming what's behind the doors) to give them a tropical/tiki look? This has to be one of the most ridiculous ideas I've ever come up with but if I could pull it off it would be the shiznit! JohnTiki Aloha from the enchanted Pi Yi Grotto in exotic Bel Air Maryland! [ Edited by: johntiki on 2004-03-26 08:42 ] [ Edited by: johntiki on 2004-04-02 06:24 ]

I have an idea for the Pi-Yi Grotto that sounds a little insane so hear me out...I have a big panel of louvered doors when you get to the bottom of the steps heading to the tiki bar, behind them is the circuit breaker, water meter, etc. - they are pretty boring and obviously have little tiki appeal...I have a vision of what I can do to dress them up and make them one of the coolest Disneyesque/Tonga Room features around. Cosmetically, I want to repaint the doors in a weathered white and replace the lame brass knobs with handles fashioned from giant spoons and forks tikis. Now, here's where the wackiness ensues - I'm planning on getting some fake palm fronds and placing them through some of the louvers at random to produce the effect of a jungle outside the door pushing its way in. I was going to place a CD player inside the doors with a special effects CD of jungle noises but now I want to go a little farther. I want to create occasional thunderstorms with flashing lightning and thunder claps behind the doors. I've been spending the morning scanning Halloween websites (they even have newsgroups for people who go all out to do their houses up for the holiday! - go figure) looking for a way to make this happen as inexpensively as possible - I've found machines that work off sound effects CDs to produce synchronized lightning effect but I've got a closet for God's sake, I don't want to spend $100.00 to do this! I've seen kits that will supposedly produce the effects I'm looking for cheaply but, since I've never used a soldering iron or fooled around with building one of those electronic kits I'm at a loss...anyone out there have any experience with this stuff or have any suggestions? I don't want a constant thunderstorm, do you think I could put it on a timer to go off and on every 20 minutes or so? Any ideas for other ways to dress up the doors (perhaps faux warning signs or welcoming entrance signs proclaiming what's behind the doors) to give them a tropical/tiki look? This has to be one of the most ridiculous ideas I've ever come up with but if I could pull it off it would be the shiznit!

JohnTiki

Aloha from the enchanted Pi Yi Grotto in exotic Bel Air Maryland!

[ Edited by: johntiki on 2004-03-26 08:42 ]

[ Edited by: johntiki on 2004-04-02 06:24 ]

Post #82974 by johntiki on Fri, Mar 26, 2004 8:26 AM