Mark Mywords' Walls of Voodoo (updated 6/17/15)

Long time lurker here. Thought it was finally time to put up pics of what I've been working on(and off) and on for the past year.

So this whole thing started when we moved from Sac to Davis a year and a half ago. We're used to living in old funky places. The house in Davis is newer and well, pretty "Normal". Having the luxury of extra space for the first time provided the opportunity to add some badly needed character and create the getaway I've wanted to build for some time now...

BTW, yeah, the name probably isn't as "Tiki" as the purists might want. My kids named it and it sort of stuck.

Unfortunately, more than a few of the early photos of the build got wiped out when I had an sd card die. The only "Before" pics I have are frame grabs from a video.

Behold, a very cluttered, boring white walled room -

Sooo much white... The first thing I did was paint and start work on the ceiling. Things got off to a bad start with two mistakes. First of all, we had new electrical installed in the ceiling for mood lighting in the corners and a light fixture in the center. This left circular holes in the ceiling (used to route cable). I decided to leave the holes open because my original plan was to use grass matting on the ceiling which would cover them. This was a bad idea that would come back to haunt me later.

Putting up the matting was a challenge. The matting that I got is only rectangular in the vaguest sense of the word. The mats were 4 x 8', but swooped in up to a 1/2 foot on the sides. I struggled with this for many hours trying to get it installed so that seams could be covered nicely with trim later on. Getting it stapled down flat was also a struggle. I had about 90% of the ceiling done, when I was informed by a drywall contractor that I absolutely should not have left the electrical routing holes in the ceiling open. The rational being that such holes would create a greater hazard of a in-wall fire (serving as a chimney to suck in air). So, down came all the matting. It couldn't be salvaged and went into the garbage pile. The ceiling was put on hold for awhile while I concentrated on painting and installing the wall of bamboo rounds.

I also made a mistake on the painting. I wanted green to peek through the gaps in my bamboo. The green paint I chose was too bright. Luckily, it ended up not looking too bad later on when the room got built out with more dark materials. It was pretty shocking when I first put it up though.

I made a similar mistake when painting the other walls in the room. I went with a brownish yellow. Of course, this shone right through the fern wainscoting I put up.

I spent weeks trying to convince myself that this looked ok. I did eventually have to buckle and take the fern off and repaint the backing wall dark brown. That's what I get for not doing detailed planning before actually starting work.

On to the ceiling...
For ceiling ver. 2.0, I decided to go with rolled reed fencing. Unlike the grass matting, this went up like a breeze.

I very quickly moved onto the bamboo ceiling poles. I installed a 4" support pole on one side and a 2 1/2" pole on the other with 2" crosspoles. The mismatched support pole sizes worked good. It creates an illusion that the roof is slightly slanted.

At this point, I got stuck for months on getting the poles installed and looking right.

The thing that took the most time was doing the fake rope lashings. The poles themselves went up with rope treatments already on them. I ended up gluing rope for the cross lashing effect. This, of course, took forever.

BTW, if you ever want to get an extremely strange look from a hardware store clerk, purchase 40 little tubes of super glue. The look of wonder/fear was priceless.

OK, time to move on to walls. More coming later...

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Looks like your off to a great start. Trial and error is how I have learned everything so far..Well that and lurking here.

I love seeing all the progress pics. Can't wait for more, thanks for sharing!

On to the walls...

I chose to go with fern fence, abaca matting and bamboo backing for the walls.

The biggest challenge here was getting the bamboo to go down as perfectly flat as possible. The first section I put up seemed to staple down just fine. However, a week later it started bowing out in the middle. I had to pull it and try again, this time with more staples and attention to stretching and flattening as I worked.

Cool switch plate I got from Crazy Al

Once that was done, I started working with the trim. I had several feet of nice molding I had purchased from Bosko and combined it with some smaller bamboo pieces.

My original idea for covering seams was to use stained wood trim strips. I decided instead to scorch and wirebrush the wood. It takes a really long time (especially using just a little plumber's butane torch), but the final look was totally worth it.

I took advantage of my youngest son's pyromaniac tendencies and had him do some of the work...

You can see here I finally covered up the yellow behind the fern with brown paint

I went ahead and bought an entertainment center to keep the wife happy (she was tired of our kids monopolizing our upstairs TV). I had tried for over a year to find something tiki-tastic, but the only pieces I found were way too expensive. I went ahead and purchased a pretty generic piece with the intention of tikifying it myself. I probably won't stick with the reed fencing treatment I used here. As for the TV, I will be camouflaging it later when I get to the finishing work on the room.

The corner where the wall joins the stairwell was a challenge. I couldn't continue the bamboo backing as it wouldn't trim out right. Instead, I've started fitting a 4" bamboo pole to lay flush as a faux support column and cover up that corner. Getting the notching to accommodate the existing trim is going to be tricky (with my limited woodworking skills that is...). It should finally be up this weekend.

So, what does the future hold? I know that I'm going to build hangers for some of the musical instruments on the bamboo pole wall. I need to figure out what I'm doing with the window. I'm thinking about copying the window coverings at Disneyland's Enchanted Tiki Room. Basically they're just a bamboo frame incorporating reed fencing. They seem fairly simple.

With major construction done, I get to move on to decorating! I've got a bunch of stuff I've been collecting as well as a whole box of stuff I purchased from oceanic arts on a collecting trip not too long ago. I want to add a bunch of foliage. I'm hoping to score a float lamp in the next few weeks to add to the lighting. I also need to figure out what to do about remaining furniture (the papasan chairs gotta go) and covering up the remaining white baseboards with something more attractive.

-mark

Well done! Keep us posted!

The ceiling looks great - time well spent.

CN

The last piece of trim went up this afternoon. Major construction on the Walls of Voodoo has finished. Time for a drink!

4" pole - it covers up that problem corner. I'm gonna hang masks from it

cool bamboo electrical outlet covers - scored a bunch of these on ebay a while back...

and there it is! The last wall is done!

Time to drink to all the hard work! Get everybody's personal mugs out...

(and no, I did not create an experimental cocktail using trader tiki syrup,mustard and cat food...)

ahh, yes! So much goodness in one place! Havin' a flaming zombie with the goof!

Next come guitar hangers and putting decorations up...

Congratulations...that is a lot of work you have done to a fairly large space. It's looking great and glad you celebrated with the Goof. :)

Lookin' excellent!
Thanks for the progress pics, it's fun to follow your thought patterns.

Look what my wife drove 2 1/2 hours up into the mountains to bring back!

best birthday gift ever!

Now, if I can find a couple of Frankl style arm chairs to keep it company, we'll be in business...

[ Edited by: markmywords 2011-02-23 22:42 ]

The third mug looks great!

Very nice work with the bamboo and reed matting… great setting for all things tiki to follow.

I see that you intelligently applied a cardinal principle of home remodeling projects: start by making an offering to the significant other (in your case, the entertainment center). This brings manifest blessings in the form of ready agreement on scope, as well as grudging tolerance for all those messy intermediate steps.

Yeah what's hard is having to strike the balance between construction zone and the necessity of keeping a space that's going to be used by the kids a great deal of the time.

One of the other things I'm going to have to do because of this is to build a tiki bar on wheels that can be brought into the room for the (far too infrequent) adults only shin-digs that we throw.

Those papasan chairs were also a temporary accomodation (although, they do keep with the theme). I'm going to end up ditching them, they're cool, but they're too big and not very durable.

Some new pictures... Things are coming along nicely.

Saturday was the Tiki Room Preview / my birthday shin dig. Didn't have a lot of time to put more stuff up on the walls, but I made sure that the two items mandatory to any tiki room were in place...
Mr. Bali Hai (in his temporary location, with a small selection of his friends)

and of course the obligatory framed Denny

We had way more people show up than expected (we need more seating down there). Luckily we have plenty of spill over space upstairs and on the balcony. it was a blast!

new addition to the room - moai plasma head!

Yes, yes, I know, the forbidden TV was also there. We had Pagan Love Song on repeat on low volume. Everybody loved it.
Boy, that Esther Williams sure can swim...

All in all a great time. We're already planning the "Official" opening party of the Walls of Voodoo in a couple of months...

mahalo,
-Mark

[ Edited by: markmywords 2011-03-13 18:03 ]

Nice guitars! I really love them.
BTW, did you buy your bamboo poles and glass floats from Benson's Import?
Love your design. :)

Great job on your space.

Darilyn

On 2011-03-14 01:11, Polly wrote:
Nice guitars! I really love them.
BTW, did you buy your bamboo poles and glass floats from Benson's Import?
Love your design. :)

Thanks!
Hah, at about a year and a half in, I think I've probably ordered stuff from everybody at this point (Bensons, OA, Franks, MGP and a bunch of others I can't remember right now)!

I'm really enjoying how the room is morphing and taking on a direction of it's own. I had originally imagined a more "Authentic" primitive tiki room. The necessity of having it function as a shared space for the whole family (as well as where the guitars had to go) has now pointed it in the direction of being more lounge-like. As more of the clutter goes up, it will be interesting to see how the character changes...

-mark

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Hey all, here's the latest progress...

So, my idea for windows coverings was to copy the ones thay have at Disneyland's Enchanted Tiki Room.
The construction is fairly simply - basically a bamboo frame with reed fencing.

It took me awhile to figure out how to the join the frame together. I finally decided on constructing a gluing jig to strap the frame into while the joints were glued and dried.

Constructing the frame was quite a bit harder than I had anticipated. I encountered a reoccurring problem - I have a heck of a time getting my mitered joints to match up angle-wise. That is, individually the miters themselves are fine (45 degree), it's just that when it comes time to put the frame together, it becomes apparent that the joints at each end of each piece of the frame are off in comparison to each other. I end up with one joint that works ok, but the other is pointing upwards or downwards and will not make a clean joint. I ended up having to cover this by using an adhesive filler to fill the gaps in the the joints.

After a lot of gluing and a little improvising to fix unexpected problems I had my frames. It was time to add lashings.


Again, this took a great deal longer than I had anticipated. After what seemed like an eternity (and several weekends, working a few hours at a time), it was finally time to join the frame to the reed backing.

And... voila! They're done!

The big reward on this project came when we had a guest over and the first thing she said upon entering the room was "Wow, those windows are just like Disneyland's!".

I've also added some new decorations and accents over the past couple of months -

New bird

New couch (and banister treatment)

New masks

New couch cover

not so new fountain

After countless requests from guests... I finally caved and got a puffer

...and he's on one of the remote controlled circuits I put in. It's nice to be able to push a button and have "Instant Tiki!" instead of having to scramble around plugging various features in.

According to a Hawaiian friend of mine, it is extremely bad luck to have open mouthed tiki's inside one's home. She promptly provided some Hawaiian salt to rectify the situation (in an attractive lauhala box, too).

The grand opening of the Walls of Voodoo is in just a couple of weeks (June 11th). I'm hoping to finish putting up more decorations on the walls. I'll be working on a simple rain effect that will go behind the window coverings I just put up. If all goes well, I'm hoping to get a shelf up along the top of one of the walls for mugs. Also, I'd like to install reflective sheet metal inside to the tiki pole support columns to shoot more light up the front of the tiki poles.

Not much time left, so I've got my work cut out for me...

mahalo,
-mark

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Hey all,
It's been some time since my last update. Thought I'd share some of the changes in The Walls of Voodoo.

I finally got around to working on the entertainment console. The reed treatment I had put on the doors was never supposed to be a final solution and had started to fall apart. Bamboo planks are so much better.

I still am searching for ideas on what to do with the TV itself. Any suggestions, anyone? My wife is suggesting enclosing it somehow in a close-able cabinet with witco-style art integrated into it.

I acquired this lovely picture from TikiTim

My wife picked up this coffee table and a sidetable from craig's list. These are probably the last pieces of furniture to be added to the room.

New shelf for the tiki mugs

Here is a better picture of the fountain that I originally showed last update

Meet Shrunken Head Fred! My youngest son had been lobbying for a shrunken head for the Walls of Voodoo for some time. After taking a look at some of the "Authentic" looking reproductions at Tiki Oasis, I decided that they were probably a little too detailed and gruesome. This lit, vinyl head does the trick just fine. Fred sat in a drawer for several months until I found him a home (a lovely wooden clock cabinet from the local thrift store)

This guy is destined for greater things! Right now, it may just be a tacky, plastic volcano. We will eventually be transplanting him into the mouth of a custom carved tiki. Until then, he can keep the plasma moai company...

A few new items in this corner.

Shrunken head by Tiki Tony

It took me about ten shots to get one that looked decent. Low level photography is very challenging, especially with no tripod.

That's it for now! I'm planning to start honing my wood carving skills as I would like to add some carved planks onto the stairway banister. I will be adding another carved shelf sometime soon. Also, At some point all of the vintage polynesian related post cards that I've collected over the years are going to start being put up...

Thanks for looking!

Mahalo,
-mark mywords

[ Edited by: markmywords 2012-02-05 23:36 ]

looking great, with some very stylish touches. i love how things come together,
for example the shrunken head in the clock case, very cool.

for the t.v., i'm gonna borrow the idea of hiding it in a wooden crate
with something stenciled on the front... simple and fun.

Great looking tiki space, it looks very cozy and inviting. I especially like how you incorporated your musical instruments. Very well done!

I still am searching for ideas on what to do with the TV itself. Any suggestions, anyone? My wife is suggesting enclosing it somehow in a close-able cabinet with witco-style art integrated into it.

Great idea! that works very well. There is a thread HERE that discusses installing a (hanging) tv into a tiki bar, but several suggestions and images came up with how to disguise a tv as well. Good luck with your home tiki bar!! It's looking really good!

Excellent space!

Out of curiosity, how'd you hang that 4" support pole on the ceiling? Just screwed it to the wall through the openings you cut for the cross pieces? Looks fantastic.

Really looking great. I don't know who is coordinating our Sacramento Home Crawl this year, but you might want to throw your hat in the ring to host, it's really great fun!!!

On 2012-02-06 17:54, Tiki Trev wrote:
Excellent space!

Out of curiosity, how'd you hang that 4" support pole on the ceiling? Just screwed it to the wall through the openings you cut for the cross pieces? Looks fantastic.

I used a long drill bit (12") to drill access holes into the 4" and a smaller pilot hole for the mounting screw directly opposed from the access hole. I used 4" screws and carefully guided them into the pole and through the pilot using a magnetic screw tip. It was somewhat tricky. I lost quite a few screws inside the pole as they tended to fall off the screw tip at the slightest bump.

I have no doubt that the above is definitely the "Hard way" and there most certainly has to be a smarter way of mounting larger beams like that.

Also, there are no holes for the cross beams. All cross beams are hung from furring strips. All the lashings are totally faux and just glued on. All those lashings and rope accents serve to cover lots and lots of joints and screw holes. :)

-mark

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On 2012-02-06 13:27, Polynesiac wrote:
Great idea! that works very well. There is a thread HERE that discusses installing a (hanging) tv into a tiki bar, but several suggestions and images came up with how to disguise a tv as well.

Wow, that suitcase camouflage job from that thread is really incredible! I'm definitely going to nick the swivel mount idea from that.

To be honest, I've really been stalling on this particular project. I'd rather not have the TV in there at all, but the fact is our one regular, monthly tiki gathering is a movie night ala "South Seas Sin-ema". So it has to stay. I've just got to figure out a stylish way to make it disappear the rest of the time when it's not being used.

-Mark

On 2012-02-06 18:14, VampiressRN wrote:
Really looking great. I don't know who is coordinating our Sacramento Home Crawl this year, but you might want to throw your hat in the ring to host, it's really great fun!!!

Thanks Vampiress!
Yeah, we possibly might be willing to host. We're still trying to make it out to one of the sac ohana gatherings...

The Walls of Voodoo official Tiki mug is getting ready for the kiln:

Courtesy of resident artist Cap'n Sal, who has made at least one previous contribution to the tiki-ness of our house's surroundings:

Lovin this tiki room. What you did with the guitars and stuff. Great idea!!! :D

On 2012-02-09 20:35, forgotten tikiman wrote:
Lovin this tiki room. What you did with the guitars and stuff. Great idea!!! :D

Guitar frames were actually my wife's (Cap'n Sal) idea. She's got lotsa good ideas rattling around in that head of hers...

Wow... What a fantastic transformation! Great job and congrats on a fine tiki space.

Cap'n Sal has been busy crafting another addition to grace the shelves of the Walls of Voodoo.

Behold the WOV Zombie mug -

He's drying out waiting for first firing. His buddy (see previous post) is ready for glazing. Both should be quite interesting as we have never actually fired anything in the kiln we picked up years ago (always used the ceramics center kiln). We'll do some tests first and hopefully everything goes ok...

As for me... my efforts have been relegated to practicing with the router and dremel routers for the last several weeks. Cap'n Sal has been kind enough to draw up some larger designs for me to practice on. No pics yet. Working with the routers is quite harder than I thought. I had been a big admirer of Monkeyman's routing work before - now that I've had a go at it I'm even more in awe! It'll probably be at least a month more before I feel comfortable enough to start working on real pieces meant for installation.

[ Edited by: markmywords 2012-03-19 23:59 ]

Sweet

I love the real birdie in your tiki room! Nice touch :)

Tiki Kitty

Wow, this frolic room has come together real nicely! I especially like all the individual touches, like the faux window, the shrunken head cabinet, and even the cheesy mini volcano. It reminds me about what I loved about the Tiki Ti when I first came upon it, and what is so great about Tiki style: The way it inspires folk to come up with their own interpretations and individual touches that add to the theme, and the playfulness of it all. It's all for adults that don't wanna stop playing, and it's infectious that way.

MarkMyWords, I don't know how I missed your great build! Everything looks perfect! Sounds like you have boosted your construction IQ on this one, great problem solving and determination. How did the WOV Zombie Mug turn out?

Thanks everyone for all the kind words and encouragement!

Unfortunately, I haven't had much time to work on the tiki room over the past couple of months. Hopefully that will change soon.

The two mugs are getting close to being finished. The zombie head is currently being biscuit fired. After that, it'll be glazed (should be easy - very simple paint scheme for that guy). The psycho-tiki has been glazed and ready to be glost-fired. I've been stalling on him for quite awhile. I just couldn't come up with a color scheme that I liked. I finally took inspiration from Disney's "Princess and the Frog"'s voodoo scenes. Lots of dark purple, acid green and red. Hopefully he'll look good when he comes out of the kiln. That firing will be the first in Cap'n Sal's home kiln. Wish us luck!

Hey all,
I've been meaning to do a quick update lately, but I've been waiting until I have some major additions. All the stuff I've done lately has been small. Well, I got help with something large today.

These fine pieces once hung at Sacramento's Coral Reef. My family teamed up to score these for me as probably the biggest surprise Christmas gift ever!

I'm still in awe and will be doing some research for more info on these. I'll be hanging at least one of these in the room this week. Stay tuned for better pix!

mahalo
-mark mywords

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[ Edited by: markmywords 2012-12-26 01:11 ]

Wow. What a great room. The hard work payed off. You have added so many nice details.

So, after the shock and awe wore off after receiving a couple of large, vintage Witco pieces for xmas, I realized that hanging them was going to be anything but simple.

First, a little about the pieces themselves...

Luckily enough, it didn't take more than a quick trip through the pages of "Tiki Modern" to figure out what I had acquired: "Tahitian Lovers" (witco catalog w-26).

Here's one of the two getting ready for clean up and scuff fixing:

I had originally spotted these two pieces in craigslist back in November. The seller had purchased them as part of a storage locker that belonged to the owners of the Coral Reef Restaurant in Sacramento. At the time, I really wanted them, but with Christmas coming up, there was no way I could justify buying extravagant tiki items for myself. I told my wife about them and thought nothing else about it, other than noticing the next day that the ad was gone from craigslist.

Apparently, my wife had swept into action the very next morning after we had looked at the ad. She convinced her Mom and my Father to team up on the purchase price. Her Mom then jumped into her car (with my sister in-law, the other tiki-phile in the family)and drove from Sacramento to Richmond. Upon arrival, the seller started to balk a little, as they had received several other offers by phone for more than the advertised price. Luckily, they agreed to honor the original price. Originally the plan was to purchase one of the two pieces (the one in better condition). Upon hearing the heritage of the pieces, My sister in-law (bless her soul) insisted that the set should NOT be broken up and convinced her mom to purchase both. The deal was made and the witco was smuggled back to Davis and hidden until Christmas.

Anyhow, my original idea was to hang one of them on the wall at the bottom of the stairs and the other on the wall between two of the guitars. Immediately I realized I had a problem.

These things are SO DAMN BIG. We're talking 2 1/2' x 5'. If I put one on the wall at the bottom of the stairs, it would overhang the trip piece bordering the tiki room. So, no just hanging the thing up and calling it wonderful. Of course, if I'm going to have to pull down that trim, I might as well do that whole section of wall with bamboo backing and trim.

Expanding the tiki room outside of it's original boundaries. This is a brave new world...

The original line of demarcation for the walls of voodoo:

Proposed annex:

Of course with progress, comes sacrifice. A couple of evictions had to be served.

sorry guys.

I haven't done walls in a long time, so a quick inventory was required. Glad I didn't toss this stuff out like the missus urged me to.

Aha! There it is!

I spent most of a Saturday repairing the witco itself. They didn't need much. I decided the original D ring hangers were in good enough shape to re-use. One of the pieces was missing its hanging wire. Both needed touch up for minor scuffs.

BTW, here's the "Lesser" of the two pieces. It has some water damage and resulting warping of the backing board.
In low light, would not look bad -

Ugh... not pretty:

Sunday was spent hanging backing and cutting and charring trim pieces.

At last everything was ready for hanging:

View from our front door landing:

The whole thing was more work that I had intially anticipated, but it looks really nice. Of course, now the family is telling me that I can't stop at that one wall section. I have to do the entire downstairs common areas! We'll see...

Right now I know you're asking "So, where's the other witco piece hanging?". Unfortunately, It's not. To be honest, I really don't know what to do with it. After thinking about it, I'd really hate to break up the three guitars by replacing the middle one with the witco. So, where else could it go? The only space that I have even close to 2 1/2' is in the corner near one of the big tikis:

The space between the wall and the window trim is just under 30", meaning that if I was to hang the other "Tahitian Lovers" here, it would partially overlap the window trim. Plus, it's going to stick out from the wall a bit because the back is warped. Plus, part of it will be obscured by the large tiki in the corner. Plus, I'm sorta worried the whole thing will potentially collapse under it's own weight because of the damage to the backing board.

What to do, what to do? I'm sorely tempted to try to restore the piece by replacing the backing board. On the other hand, I've always understood that leaving something like this as original as possible (even damaged) is generally the best thing to do. Any Witco experts out there? What do you think?

So, for the time being, It will be stored for future unveiling.

Here are the other additions to the Walls of Voodoo that have been made over the past several months:

New mug shelf

New "Walls of Voodoo" mascot mug, custom by Cap'n Sal

Monkey head and old bottle:

Ship's lantern and shark jaws

This one's not strictly "Tiki", but I like its loungetastic-vibe and I'm currently populating it with smaller collectibles (tiki shot glasses, matchbooks, etc...)

Thanks to Cap'n Sal's efforts, our tiki-garden is growing:

That's it for right now. I'm planning on tackling trim next. Baseboards, stair railings, etc. Still trying to hone my router carving skills...

Mahalo!

-mark mywords

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Well, it's been a hella long time since an update. So here we go...

Sadly, all good things must come to an end. It breaks my heart to report that the Walls of Voodoo will be closing it's doors immediately.

The good news is that we will be reopening for business in the very near future. Cap'n Sal, myself and the Sira Menehunes will be relocating to North-West Sacramento (the strange natives that live there call it "Woodland", personally I have a hard time pronouncing that word). The new digs have a room. The native gods have spoken to me and demanded that I construct a suitable environment in their honor. What choice have I than to obey. Depending of course on how much we clear on the sale of the Davis tiki-palace, of course...

So, join me now in remembering our humble Walls of Voodoo. Aloha, WOV!

Ian tries his hand at re-creating Lloyd's iconic profile picture

The wild, majestic Albino Bob!

Walls of Voodoo mascot "Unlei-ki-lei-ki" stops moving (sorta) long enough to wave his tail feathers goodbye

Aww, the emotion is too much...

the obligatory shaka from Colin

We always meant to get around to adding little notes to pin up throughout the Walls of Voodoo (ala Trader Sam's). The tag for this was going to be something like "When at the Bora-Bora Cafe, do not try the "Jungle Lobster""

That's it for right now. I will be documenting the tear down. Which starts today.

mahalo,
mmw

On 2014-05-31 14:39, markmywords wrote:

Ian tries his hand at re-creating Lloyd's iconic profile picture

OMG is that a Manos the hands of faith T-shirt that young man is wearing from MST3K??? lol best show ever!
sorry to hear your closing shop, cant wait to see the new pics!!!

[ Edited by: Pele Paul 2014-05-31 16:15 ]

Well Mark, glad I got to experience your lounge and looking forward to the new build when you move. At least you had all that practice!!! Maybe 2015 crawl can swing by your new digs?

The Walls of Voodoo was an inspiration for me at the last crawl. It gave me some great ideas for my tiki haven. Good luck with the new digs and the new build.

On 2014-05-31 16:56, VampiressRN wrote:
Well Mark, glad I got to experience your lounge and looking forward to the new build when you move. At least you had all that practice!!! Maybe 2015 crawl can swing by your new digs?

Oh definitely! We will totally host a stop in 2015!

Sounds like a plan...looking forward to it.

6/1/14: De-tikification continues.

How the hell do you move a tiki oil-lamp without making a complete mess?

Tiki Room (some assembly required)

Taking down float lamp,floats, mugs and mug shelves this morning. taking down wall/ceiling coverings this afternoon.

-mmw

love your bamboo window cover did you make that? looks like the window at the enchanted tiki room!!!!

On 2014-06-01 09:53, Pele Paul wrote:
love your bamboo window cover did you make that? looks like the window at the enchanted tiki room!!!!

Thanks! Yep, I built them. I'm a little sad that I never got the chance to build the same type of covering for the sliding door. Check out page 2 of this thread, it shows their construction.

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