Post #95064 by sporkboyofjustice on Mon, Jun 7, 2004 1:50 PM

Hmm, on a budget eh? Well I'll throw out a few ideas and people can correct me if I say something dumb.

I think that I'd lose some of the cabinet doors in favor for a more open look. This will let you display mugs and barware as well as keep you from smashing your head into the doors when they are open (yes this does hurt quite a bit).

Next if I had the cash I would do bamboo trim all around the cabinets. On strip of wall you could use one of those mats (I can't remember what they are called), wallpaper or wallpaper it in pages out of a book like Tiki Quest or The Book of Tiki. I'd use photocopies because I wouldn't want to ruin my book. I think a photocopy for personal use is OK right? You might need to get permission to do that.

If you are talented in painting things you could always paint a scene on that white background. That could be anything, a window looking out to the beach to a view of the short order cook that is working in the "kitchen".

You could cut pages out of the Grog Log and paste them to the bar and lacquer over that. I don't know how that would work on your masonite (?) though.

Oh yeah I think some rum and a blender would help the bar quite a bit. I don't know too much about being authentic, if it's fun and you enjoy it that should probably be good enough.