Lina has always wanted a seashell resin toilet ever since she saw one in an estate sale house. I’ve always forgot about it, but she reminded me at the right time this year. I found a vintage one on ebay and Lina had a lot of questions about the package when it was delivered. I […]
Christmas 2023 started rough when the tree came crashing down and destroyed most of the ornaments and jewels; along with one of the rings. I’d been meaning to add some kind of winch system for years, but I was finally motivated to get one installed. Then the Modern Christmas Tree (https://www.modernchristmastrees.com/) people restrung the tree
I found this PNG in a random auction here is Colorado and Lina won it. I built a stand out of some teak that’s been sitting in my shop for a long while. I also aged the hardware. I think it looks great! Now it needs to find it’s forever spot in the house.
We’ve had this old Big Lots gazebo for years and years. When we first put the pool under, Roger had a great idea when he suggested we tiki-fy it with some thatch. The roof was on it’s last legs, so we decided to finally bite the bullet and make a thatch roof for it as
I gave Lina a bar sink for Christmas with plans to build a bar similar to her existing one. So I drew up some plans in Fusion 360: Then we built some cardboard cutouts to see how it would actually look in the space: Now I needed some tools to actually do fine woodworking for
We bought this Moai from an event company a couple of years ago. Then Rene taught Lina how to paper-crete and she made the little piggy better. All was well with the world. Then the wolf came (high wind storm) and blew the piggy down and he split in half like Humpty Dumpty. Tiki Rancher
I happened across an auction for some 1946 pictures in Tahiti by Adolphe Sylvain. We won a couple of the prints and needed a frame for them. I also needed to get back into woodworking mode, so I figured this would be good practice. The plan was to use some discount teak I purchased years
We have a chair fetish, so we needed new chairs to replace the boring couch in the Party Pit.
Here’s the final post of everything we’ve done up to 2022 with some Christmas flair: This is an old project where Lina took bamboo serving trays and turned them into picture frames: As everyone already knows, the tiki work is never done. However, this is the last update for the quest! We’re looking forward to
We were home for Christmas this year and Lina decorated the house. We put up the Modern Christmas Tree. Lina decorates it from the first floor. Then I hoist it up to the second floor on a pulley. There’s a rotating disco ball and an up-light placed on the ridge over the front door. I
