Tiki lounge saves life! LOL

I have been kicking around changing my bar and game room into a Tiki lounge. After finding your web site and lurking around for a month or so, I decided to get going on the room. Everything started out ok enough. I fought my way through a gaint roll of mattng to cover the walls above the chair rail on two walls. Tiki-fied the bar re-covered the bar stools, figured out how to split bamboo, etc. Then I found a roll of leopard print material....hmmm... I wonder how that would look on the short wall behind the TV? Called my husband to help me move out the TV and a couple of other assorted stand up game machines.
Oh my gosh! The wall was not wet but moldy with nasty black mold. I have a very bad asthma condition and am very allergic to molds. I had to leave the area, close off the room from the rest of the house and my dear husband had to remove the wall and the shower stall. People before us must have installed the shower themselves. totally messed up job!
So the lounge is on a tempory hold while a new shower and walls go up. I could have really gotten sick from all of this had it not been caught. I'll post some pictures once I can go back into the area again.
Thanks for all your cool ideas keep em coming I really enjoy the board! Also we live in the Chicagoland area , anybody else?

Woo-HOO! Once again, tiki saves the day!! Whodathunk that the installation of a full-on lounge could uncover a lurking menace? Enjoy your future mai tai's in asthma-free bliss!

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Oh tiki newbie!

Now... sit here upon my, uh...knee.

Tiki is a strange and powerful soothesayer. At one point, it seems Ku's leading you down the wrong path; but if you just hang loose (brah), you find that it's the right path.

Now, wipe off, freshen up, and let's go!!!

Here is what I got done before I had to leave the area..if I made the pictures too big, I'm sorry. I only learned how to do this 15 min. ago...

I really enjoy the board! Also we live in the Chicagoland area , anybody else?

Welcome to TC!

Quite a story and quite a tiki room you have going there! I live 80 miles north of Chicago and I am a tiki carver in Milwaukee. I usually don't toot my own horn but if you would like to check out my stuff here's my website...

http://home.earthlink.net/~tikidavejenni/index.html

I'd be happy to work with you guys if you might be looking for a tiki or two!

Welcome,Exotica59!Your pics look great-I'm outside the Windy City,too.Nice to hear there are more of us!

great looking Tiki's Lake Surfer! We get up your way a few times a year for shopping trips.
Have to wait on Tiki purchases until we get through replacing walls and and shower--- and now since we are tearing up the room we might as well replace the other fixtures....
anyway I'll keep you in mind! I'd like to see more, you are very gifted! Thanks!

Thanks for posting the pictures! That wall shelving fixture with mirrors is really cool. I am so jealous of all the space you have!

Also a Chicago area Tikiphile.

nice to know there are a few us in the windy city area. We live 40 or 45 miles west of Chi. in West Aurora. near not too far from I88.

Hey exotica59-

Where did you get the roll of the woven matting? (My tiki lounge/dining room will happen slowly, after I move in, but it will happen.) Those lucky bastards in SoCal can pop out to Oceanic Arts any ol' time, but I assume I'll have to mail order as I'm guessing you did. Or did you? Does Chicago have a source?

Anybody else's help would be appreciated here, too.

I got my matting from a lady off of eBay that was very helpful.Although a quick check didn't show that she currently is offering matting--she advertised her email for anyone to contact her should they need certain size rolls. I have her email if you would like it. I got my bamboo poles off of eBay also, ebay id bambooimporter. This person runs lots of auctions for all differant sizes.
Now, please remember I am a newbie at all of this myself, maybe I over paid for what I bought?? it was all good stuff though....I did just order the OA catalog so I could find out what I was missing out on living in the middle of the country, and what they charge.
I too am moving forward slowly, as I am trying to do this as cheap as possible.
( not all that easy these days) So far the biggest $$$$ were in the matting. Most everything else I have made myself. the shield, "fish float hanging lights, and covering all the bar stools, and other things myself with sale fabric and my trusty staple and or brad guns.
I have done many differant designs for rooms in my houses over 27 yrs of marriage and if I can't make it or find it cheap I don't get to do it. Plus I love the challenge of the hunt for items.And I must say--Tiki hunting at bargin pricing is very hard work in the midwest.(maybe anywhere) LOL! My tip for around here is best shopping is in thrift stores and garage/estate sales. Haven't checked in the Wriggle area if Chi. yet. I usually just go there to drool over things I can't afford.
Also the mirrored wall behind the bar for housing glasses and cups is done with the peel and stick mirrored squares. just line your shelves along the the tile lines and most of the
lines will be hidden.
Ok, enough of Melodys design on a dime for tonight--time to have a cool drink or three. Rough day at work; 2 of the 3 phases of main eletric that comes into my school went down. You haven't lived till the lights blink off in a grade school. LOL