Month: November 2020

Home Tiki Bar Spotlight #75 Baron’s Bamboo Lounge – Vancouver B.C. Canada

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When you have Rod Moore (The man who built The Shameful Tiki) help you build a home tiki bar, you know it’s going to be great! Beth MacNeil and Aaron Hicks just moved into a new home and the first thought they had was, let’s build a tiki bar! Beth and Aaron are good friends with Rod, so with his help, they got to work on transforming one of the rooms of the house into Baron’s Bamboo Lounge and the end result is truly stunning, it’s like a smaller version of The Shameful Tiki Room!

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The South Pacific Libation Company – A Pop-Up Tiki Bar, Literally!

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Usually when I write about a tiki bar, I mention what city or town it’s located, but when the tiki bar is collapsible and can pop up anywhere, location doesn’t really matter. John Betts was thinking of building a shelf to display his growing tiki mug collection but decided instead to build a tiki bar that he can set up outside on his deck and serve his guests tiki cocktails from. When it starts raining here in the Pacific Northwest, John can easily tear down his bar and pack it away for the Winter. John invited me over for drinks at his home in Redmond WA and we talked about his one of a kind tiki bar called, The South Pacific Libation Company …

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Home Tiki Bar Spotlight #74 The Lumi-La Lounge – San Diego CA

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You live here?!?!

Jennifer and Kenn Watson’s daughter Gillian gets that a lot. Imagine being a kid and having your friends over and taking them into your parent’s home tiki bar. All your friends would think you have the coolest parents ever! Speaking of cool parents, when Jennifer’s parents came back from their dates at the various tiki bars in the area, they would bring back the tiki mugs and give them to Jennifer, in fact she still has them and they can be found in The Lumi-La Lounge …

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Home Sweet Tiki Home #6 The Mainlander Room – Tacoma WA

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Before you reach Susan and Eddie Pena’s home tiki bar, you have to walk through the kitchen, then the dining room, then the living room and finally you turn to your right and bam! You are in The Mainlander Room. Susan and Eddie Pena’s home is a totally mid-century modern time capsule and once you step inside their home, you are transported back to a time before the internet and cable television.

The Mainlander Room is right next to the living room and the transition between the two is seamless, with some of the tiki and mcm blending the two styles together. When I visited The Mainlander Room, I honestly didn’t want to leave! Susan and Eddie, I can’t wait to come back, in the meantime, here is their story …

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