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Endless Summer in south mississippi |
seafoodplatter
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Joined: Mar 08, 2010
Posts: 3
From: south mississippi
|  Posted: 2010-04-14 12:30 pm Permalink
What started as a tiki bar ended up coast trash. My influences down here are just too strong. But, I thought I would share some pictures with ya'll anyway.
Stated by putting caps and solar light on the post. Then using eye bolts, ran rope around my deck. The bolts, rope, caps, lights, and screws for the bar are all I bought, the rest I found are was given.
I used my old french doors for the front and top of the bar. The rest of the frame was built out of the crate the new doors came in and the old deck railing that I tore down.
Found 4 landscaping timbers and a piece and tin roofing on the side of the road to make a cover. Then just started adding things I've found over the years at the beach and our barrier islands.
I hope ya'll enjoy. I've done more since these pictures, so I'll have some more later. My next project will be my tiki beach around the side of the house. I promised myself that it would stay tiki from start to finish.
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Bongo Bungalow
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Joined: Aug 20, 2007
Posts: 1230
From: Indiana
| Posted: 2010-04-14 7:19 pm Permalink
Well... yeah... I dig it! Your portable-radio-on-a-rope is a gas! I've been on the lookout for a portable radio like the one on Gilligan's Island. You know, white plastic, a good bit horizontal and batteries that never die.
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Kamaina Kraig
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Joined: Mar 13, 2009
Posts: 211
From: Afton, NY
| Posted: 2010-04-15 08:08 am Permalink
Having lived in Biloxi, D'Iberville and Bay St. Louis I can appreciate your Endless Summer Bar. Looks fantastic and I will look you up next time I come to visit that part of the country and my family!!!
KK
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MadDogMike
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Joined: Mar 30, 2008
Posts: 6490
From: The Anvil of the Sun
| Posted: 2010-04-15 08:39 am Permalink
Welcome to TC seafoodplatter. The cyprus knees are cool, I bet they do some awesome carvings with those. Best wishes on the Tiki Beach - "tiki from start to finish" 
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Tiki Zen
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Joined: Mar 15, 2007
Posts: 352
From: Too far from the beach Bowling Green, KY
| Posted: 2010-04-15 12:06 pm Permalink
Making the bar from the French doors was a cool and creative re-purposing.
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bananabobs
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Joined: Feb 16, 2003
Posts: 824 | Posted: 2010-04-15 8:13 pm Permalink
I too dig the transistor radio on a rope. Very cool for the gulf, half the battle is that the little guy and your gal like it, go from there!
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seafoodplatter
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Joined: Mar 08, 2010
Posts: 3
From: south mississippi
| Posted: 2010-04-16 7:12 pm Permalink
here are a few more picture we took. The table was the first thing I made. On the way home from work I saw this piling on the beach and managed to get it in my jeep.
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VampiressRN
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Joined: Nov 23, 2006
Posts: 5137
From: Sin City Lincoln Hills (NorCal)
| Posted: 2010-04-18 4:49 pm Permalink
Very clever use of those doors. 
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1961surf
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Joined: May 03, 2007
Posts: 1896
From: Newport Beach, Ca .
| Posted: 2010-04-18 5:32 pm Permalink
I would cover doors in Bamboo.Great job for what you had to work with .
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