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My tiki bar

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My family talked me into making a tiki bar for our pool area. The problem is it needs to stand up to the weather even under my patio roof. Every thing needs to be maintenance free for outside and stay out side. I do cover it in the winter as I do most of my furniture. I used treated lumber, galvanized fence post, plastic conduit and outlet boxes, metal roofing material, old recycled bamboo, butcher block top, casters,composite decking material for the shelves and LED lights in 8 different colors and 8 different chasing settings.
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Very cool and creative! I was looking at those plastic pipes thinking... don't know if I like that then saw the rope treatment, very nice way to keep it maintenance free and look the part at the same time.:thumbsup:
 
The corners are PVC covered with bamboo window shades. The top is a pour over epoxy.
 
Now all you need is a couple of tiki lamps and your all set!
 
68gtxman also built one this year. Got to see it Labor day. Everybody needs one! Nice job with the lighting. Looks very Caribbean at night. Although Missouri is a few miles away.
 
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Not trying to steel your thunder. Yours is awesome! Just wanted to add a few more design ideas for others.

I used a cast-in-place concrete bar top (800 pounds). Embedded a utility sink after insulating it to be a cooler and added under counter ice maker and mini-frig. Lighting is LED under the roof and soon to be added LED color changing string lights under the bar top. Fratzog supplied the Tiki Bar sign (thanks!).
 
What's a Tiki bar without some Tiki bar music????
 
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Not trying to steel your thunder. Yours is awesome! Just wanted to add a few more design ideas for others.

I used a cast-in-place concrete bar top (800 pounds). Embedded a utility sink after insulating it to be a cooler and added under counter ice maker and mini-frig. Lighting is LED under the roof and soon to be added LED color changing string lights under the bar top. Fratzog supplied the Tiki Bar sign (thanks!).
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No thunder stole here, it's about all of us not me. Great job and lay out! The roof is as tropical as it gets and the post covers are beautiful to say the least! I didn't want mine to be permanent. It fills a spot against the house under a 20 by 20 roof and can be rolled to where ever I need it. I converted my office into a pool room where I have a mini bar, sink, refrigerator and a sitting area. I took the window out and installed a door. It walks right into the pool. After a trip to Arizona I fell in love with the landscape of cactus and palm trees. Being from Missouri, palm trees are out of the question. I found a company called Desert Steel. https://www.desertsteel.net/ . It brought the Southwest to the Midwest.
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