Rescued Home Tiki Bar! - Home Tiki Bars

T twitch Tiki Socialite Vacant lot where T. Vic's, Van. was Joined: May 12, 2006 Posts: 432	T twitch Posted posted on Thu, Aug 10, 2006 7:02 PM Hey, everyone. Finally getting around to fixing & finishing my home bar. A little back-story; while heading down the main drag in my neighborhood, I noticed this big wooden box sitting in the parking lot of a post office. Turned out to be an abandoned home tiki-bar! (How it got in it's location I can't even fathom) Anyway, I waited it out for a week, in case some postie was planning to get it home, but it just sat, getting rained on, collecting dirt, etc., so I decided to rescue it from further deterioration, got hold of a car, loaded it up 1/2-way into the trunk and a few blocks later set it in the kitchen of my apartment. No pix of it in it's original state; moldy grass-matted front panel, rusted out screws and spiderwebs holding it together etc, but after stripping it, replacing the moldy mats with leopard-print fabric (suede, gotten at half-off price, and definitely not the pattern I wanted - l-print fabric[or anything] is scarce around here) and covering the top with leopard-print paper glued down and slathered 5 times with poly-coat (not the best thing to do, but I was all out of ideas), it comes out to this; (note beautiful post-it-note yellow of kitchen walls) and with the end-flap up (wood-block carving made by my dad around 30 years ago) Still have to add the bamboo canopy, something to cover the bottom footrest, and all the little lights & deco... and I've kept the l-print suede up 'loose' in case I score some better material (got the idea from the crazy home-bar in The Book of Tiki)... More pics hopefully tomorrow night!
P pappythesailor Tiki Socialite Mass. Joined: Jul 07, 2005 Posts: 1564	P pappythesailor Posted posted on Thu, Aug 10, 2006 9:06 PM Nice work. You can't let your dignity get in the way of saving tiki. (That's how I was almost killed dumpster diving behind the Hawaiian Village) Good on ya.
T Thortiki Tiki Socialite Maryland (Land of Pleasant Tiki Living) Joined: Jul 29, 2006 Posts: 409	T Thortiki Posted posted on Fri, Aug 11, 2006 7:58 AM Gee, wish somebody in my area would throw out their old Tiki bar!!!!
T twitch Tiki Socialite Vacant lot where T. Vic's, Van. was Joined: May 12, 2006 Posts: 432	T twitch Posted posted on Sat, Aug 12, 2006 12:22 PM Small progress... (stupid working-for-a-living getting in my way...) Hey pappy, any elaboration on the near-dumpster-death? Sounds intriguing... Oh, I have read the Un-tiki Thread, so no plastic McTiki stuff here (like I would have anyway)! (Yes, I know I must upgrade some of the booze selections...) Now if I could just find some 6'x10' bamboo matting in an alley somewhere to cover that hideous yellow... More work ahead!

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twitch Posted posted on Thu, Aug 10, 2006 7:02 PM

Hey, everyone. Finally getting around to fixing & finishing my home bar.
A little back-story; while heading down the main drag in my neighborhood, I noticed this big wooden box sitting in the parking lot of a post office. Turned out to be an abandoned home tiki-bar! (How it got in it's location I can't even fathom)
Anyway, I waited it out for a week, in case some postie was planning to get it home, but it just sat, getting rained on, collecting dirt, etc., so I decided to rescue it from further deterioration, got hold of a car, loaded it up 1/2-way into the trunk and a few blocks later set it in the kitchen of my apartment.
No pix of it in it's original state; moldy grass-matted front panel, rusted out screws and spiderwebs holding it together etc, but after stripping it, replacing the moldy mats with leopard-print fabric (suede, gotten at half-off price, and definitely not the pattern I wanted - l-print fabric[or anything] is scarce around here) and covering the top with leopard-print paper glued down and slathered 5 times with poly-coat (not the best thing to do, but I was all out of ideas), it comes out to this; (note beautiful post-it-note yellow of kitchen walls)

and with the end-flap up (wood-block carving made by my dad around 30 years ago)

Still have to add the bamboo canopy, something to cover the bottom footrest, and all the little lights & deco... and I've kept the l-print suede up 'loose' in case I score some better material (got the idea from the crazy home-bar in The Book of Tiki)...
More pics hopefully tomorrow night!

P

pappythesailor Posted posted on Thu, Aug 10, 2006 9:06 PM

Nice work. You can't let your dignity get in the way of saving tiki. (That's how I was almost killed dumpster diving behind the Hawaiian Village) Good on ya.

T

Thortiki Posted posted on Fri, Aug 11, 2006 7:58 AM

Gee, wish somebody in my area would throw out their old Tiki bar!!!!

T

twitch Posted posted on Sat, Aug 12, 2006 12:22 PM

Small progress... (stupid working-for-a-living getting in my way...)

Hey pappy, any elaboration on the near-dumpster-death? Sounds intriguing...

Oh, I have read the Un-tiki Thread, so no plastic McTiki stuff here (like I would have anyway)!
(Yes, I know I must upgrade some of the booze selections...)
Now if I could just find some 6'x10' bamboo matting in an alley somewhere to cover that hideous yellow...

More work ahead!