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forgotten tikiman
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Posts: 0 |  Posted: 2012-06-18 9:16 pm Permalink
This is cool. Love that window mural idea. Reminds me of Trader Sams at Disneyland. Great Work. 
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Club Nouméa
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Joined: May 03, 2010
Posts: 441
From: Wanganui
| Posted: 2012-07-31 01:06 am Permalink
Thanks forgotten tikiman!
Tikification is continuing, with further inroads being made into the kitchen
The "before" photos:
Good riddance to those bland, unadorned walls:
In addition to hanging up a PNG gope board, I needed to remove the curtains to do the fiddly bits:
And the old white plastic lampshade over the sink had to go. Fortunately I found this on a recent expedition to Wellington:
In addition to which I finally found some flax matting for doing the ceiling:
In the not-too-distant future, I will no longer have to look at my horrible white ceilings...
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Club Nouméa
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Joined: May 03, 2010
Posts: 441
From: Wanganui
| Posted: 2012-11-08 02:12 am Permalink
Sorry for the delay, but I have been absent due to ill health. The good news is that the roof of the kitchen is nearly done and I will have a bunch of photos to show you fairly soon.
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Club Nouméa
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Joined: May 03, 2010
Posts: 441
From: Wanganui
| Posted: 2012-11-22 10:39 pm Permalink
Here are the photos showing the closing stages of the kitchen tikification.
Vaguely PNG-style panels for the big ugly white beam above the kitchen sink:
I have no routing skills, but I can paint, so these are acrylic patterns painted on plywood, tacked onto the beam:
The kitchen's white ceiling was also banished:
And I have also painted up some boards to cover up the joins between the various flax mats:
I'm currently waiting for a second pair of hands to drop by so these can be nailed up.
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The earliest known tiki mug: "Ruru and Weku", designed by Harry Hargreaves of Crown Lynn, New Zealand, 1949.
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Club Nouméa
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Joined: May 03, 2010
Posts: 441
From: Wanganui
| Posted: 2013-05-31 02:46 am Permalink
Here are the latest stages in the home tikification process...
I eventually got those panels up on the ceiling:
A little bit of Californian and Québécois tiki iconography for the hallway:
I found those on a recent trip to Auckland, on the same day as I found these:
Two West Papuan shields. The one on the left is 5 ft, 9 inches tall, while the other one is 4 ft, 9 inches tall.
Close-ups of the heads:
I scratched my head for a few days wondering where to put them. As they are shields, they both have handles on the back, so they can't be flush-mounted on a wall. So they would have to be hung. Then I had an idea:
A vast improvement!
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komohana
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Joined: Nov 08, 2010
Posts: 499
From: Western Australia
| Posted: 2013-05-31 06:22 am Permalink
those are spectacular!! way cool idea to create a balustrade,
room divider AND awesome display in one felled swoop.
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littlegiles
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Joined: Jun 08, 2003
Posts: 665
From: Lancaster, SC
| Posted: 2013-05-31 08:19 am Permalink
Great to see you back and working on your home. Love what you did with the shields, very creative idea.
- Dale
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Club Nouméa
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Posts: 441
From: Wanganui
| Posted: 2013-06-02 7:10 pm Permalink
Thanks for the positive feedback - and it only took one sheet of fabric, 3 nails, 3 drawing pins, two bits of string and two bits of fishing wire.
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