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Rene made a moai for Lina earlier in the year that is about 4′ tall using his sprayed cement techniques perfected making her waterfall. Then he decided to see if he could carve Tikis, which he did spectacularly, as usual.

This was the first tiki painting I attempted. The painting is of my favorite tiki at the moment, Kanaloa. He’s known by different names throughout Polynesia; Ta’aroa, Tangaroa, and Tangaloa. On some islands he is the supreme god and creator and on other islands he is one of the children of the main gods. On

I went a little crazy and it turned a small project into a large one.  Design NEEDS constraints. Here is my concept for a portable Tiki Bar for events. I’ve found that most portable bars in general are boxes that make it difficult for the bartender to serve, are slightly uncomfortable for people to sit,

Lina and Rene made some upgrades to the waterfall. Here is Revision 1.0 And here’s revision 2: It’s still not done, next year we’re redoing the pool at the bottom of the waterfall so that it’s bigger, matches the rest of the waterfall, and is made of concrete too. I joined a Facebook group that

We were at Ohana in Lake George, NY when the temperature rose higher than 104 degrees with full humidity. I was reading that it was near 100 at home in Denver as I was enjoying the hotel pool when I decided I needed a pool at home. I went on Amazon and found a pool

We went on a Tiki bar crawl through some Tiki aficionados houses in Denver and realized that we have no pictures of the tiki space (Name needed) and the tiki bars.  Here they are.

Here’s some pictures of the 2017 waterfall before Lina and Rene make it twice the size next year.

Rene and Lina have been busy updating the waterfall in our backyard. It’s now taller and longer with a bigger pool at the bottom that might hold koi fish one day. It’s always been my plan to make it look like the ocean at night. Here’s our first try with much more work to be

We had a photographer come to our house in 2021 to take pictures of our Tiki space. He asked some questions about the history of the Tiki room and it turns out I had completely mis-remembered its construction. Then I realized that I never posted anything about its construction on the blog. Here it is

Lina has spent a lot of time transforming our backyard into a Tiki oasis. Here’s some pictures about halfway done. We’re actually probably more than half way done now. There are just a few finishing touches that need to be done here and there. Here’s what the house looked like when we bought it: