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Home Tiki Bar Spotlight #53 Atomic Bikini Grotto – Springfield OR

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The first time I visited Duke and Lola’s home bar, it was a cigar lounge and whiskey bar called the Elephant Head Bar. It had a really great vibe, but I thought that as cool as the bar was, it would be so much cooler if it was a tiki bar! Well, they must have read my mind because that’s exactly what they did. In between filming videos for their BossaNova Life channel, they converted their home bar into a secret tiki escape called the Atomic Bikini Grotto! Here is their story …

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Home Tiki Bar Spotlight #52 Tiki Lanes and the Lava Lounge – Wichita KS

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I like my tiki escapism with a little bit of time travel thrown in …

When you enter Dawn and Bill’s tiki bar, you’re not only walking into a tiki bar, you’re walking back in time. Tiki Lanes and the Lava Lounge was designed like a home tiki bar that would have been built back in the sixties. You got wood paneling covering the walls, a checkerboard tiled floor … and did I mention a bowling score table?

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Home Tiki Bar Spotlight #51 Cacalito’s Tiki Grotto – Sunrise FL

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Cacalito’s Tiki Grotto

When most people in Florida think of a tiki bar, they think of a thatched bar that’s bright and open, not a traditional tiki bar that’s dark and mysterious. Cacalito knew what a tiki bar should be and created his own. After traveling the country visiting tiki bars for “research”, he got to work transforming his man cave into Cacalito’s Tiki Grotto!

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Home Tiki Bar Spotlight #49 The Frozen Pineapple Tiki Bar – Spokane WA

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Frozen Pineapple Tiki Bar Spokane WA

Tiki in a Tuff Shed!

When Cheryl and Bob Capoocia moved to Spokane WA from San Diego CA, they had to get used to drastically colder temperatures than what they were used to down in sunny CA. To escape the cold weather, they built a Tough Shed and converted it into a tiki bar. Yes, there is heat!

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Home Tiki Bar Spotlight #48 Riptide Ricky’s – Gresham OR

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Riptide Ricky's Gresham OR

Rick Aronstein loves his tiki drinks …

After enjoying the great tiki drinks at Hale Pele, Rick decided to start making drinks at home. With a copy of Beachbum Berry’s Remixed in one hand and a bottle of rum in the other, Rick started to make tiki drinks at home. If you’re going to make tiki drinks, it would be nice to do it in a tiki bar. Riptide Ricky’s was born! Here is Rick’s story …

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Home Tiki Bar Spotlight #47 Sneaki Tiki Bar– Edmonds WA

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Sneaki Tiki Bar

Most of us would see a toolshed, but for Eric Allred, he saw a tiki bar …

The Edmonds Sneaki Tiki Lounge is Eric’s cozy little tiki bar inside his toolshed. Eric was thinking of tearing it down but instead created an amazing little tiki bar. Eric also collects tiki mugs and has acquired quite a few in a short amount of time. Here is Eric’s story …

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Home Tiki Bar Spotlight #45 Ohana Gardens – Portland OR

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Ohana Gardens

Form follows function, but in the case of Jackie and Eric’s Ohana Gardens, it’s a different story. When you have a large backyard with plants, trees, bees, and chickens, you need tools and supplies, but more importantly, you need somewhere to store them. Jackie and Eric originally planned on building a storage shed …

They ended up with something way cooler …

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