First time poster here...
Here's my "Tiki" bar. It's not pure tiki, and has many other influences within its confines, including shades of Foxy's Tamarind on Jost Van Dyke, Doc's Beach House in Bonita Beach, FL, and others. I'm still trying to locate decently priced fireproof thatch for the "roof", which you can see is already reeded. I have a crab trap for the ceiling over the bar return which will house lights and glass racks. the ceiling will be painted the same color as the walls, and the back wall will be wallpapered with a tropical mural. The flooring was chosen to look like sand. The "roof" rafters were made from recycled shelves from our home renovation, beaten up with chains and sanded to look weathered. Since installation, the flat wooden spaces you see up against the ceiling, between the rafters, have had clear lexan installed, with surf stickers sandwiched between the the lexan pieces and the wood, making it unneccesary for me to stick the stickers directly to the wood, but still allowing me to display them. I've also added the Target tikis.
These pictures are a little over a year old. There have a been a few changes, but not much. It's kind of a stagnant project until I find the thatch. I'm also planning on some fake timbers to give the roof/ceiling a hand-hewn pub/tiki/marauder/parrothead bar look.
