Newbie Building First Tiki Bar - Need Help PLEEEEEEEZ!! - Home Tiki Bars

S sashua Member New York Joined: Mar 03, 2004 Posts: 12	S sashua Posted posted on Sat, Apr 3, 2004 11:27 PM Thanks for all your messages, I went out and bought what many of you call the bible "The Book of Tiki" and it has, indeed, served up some inspiration. My problem is that although I have adequate skills to frame out a room, I am unsure how to apply all the necessary acoutrements. Do I use 2" lacquered Bamboo or 1/2" roll and how do I apply thatch and in what quantity? These are the things that I really need to know. Has anyone out there built one that lives near Long Island? Everyone has told me how marvelously tacky this Tiki Bar will be but I am just going to "get my freak on" and dig in. As Picasso said "Good taste marks the death of creativity"!! I will probably wait until April when the weather here in New York offers up some inspiration. In the meantime, I went to an Army/Navy surplus place and bought some WW2 memorabilia such as uniforms, bullet belts, a field radio and some South Pacific hand painted fans. My idea is to have a WW2 theme Bar with 1940's music playing over an old horn speaker and black and white newsreel footage looping on an old RCA TV over the bar. I am also going to install this fan, which I think is just the greatest thing EVER!!! http://www.fanshack.com/fanimation_ceiling_fans/punkah.html I still have a little over a month to plan this thing so ...please....keep the love a' comin'!!! Russ [ Edited by: sashua on 2004-04-03 23:29 ]

Thanks for all your messages,

I went out and bought what many of you call the bible "The Book of Tiki" and it has, indeed, served up some inspiration. My problem is that although I have adequate skills to frame out a room, I am unsure how to apply all the necessary acoutrements. Do I use 2" lacquered Bamboo or 1/2" roll and how do I apply thatch and in what quantity? These are the things that I really need to know. Has anyone out there built one that lives near Long Island?

Everyone has told me how marvelously tacky this Tiki Bar will be but I am just going to "get my freak on" and dig in. As Picasso said "Good taste marks the death of creativity"!! I will probably wait until April when the weather here in New York offers up some inspiration.

In the meantime, I went to an Army/Navy surplus place and bought some WW2 memorabilia such as uniforms, bullet belts, a field radio and some South Pacific hand painted fans. My idea is to have a WW2 theme Bar with 1940's music playing over an old horn speaker and black and white newsreel footage looping on an old RCA TV over the bar. I am also going to install this fan, which I think is just the greatest thing EVER!!!
http://www.fanshack.com/fanimation_ceiling_fans/punkah.html

I still have a little over a month to plan this thing so ...please....keep the love a' comin'!!!

Russ

[ Edited by: sashua on 2004-04-03 23:29 ]

Post #84459 by sashua on Sat, Apr 3, 2004 11:27 PM