A couple years ago I did write up on Lucas Mark’s blog: The Meek Tiki for my Tiki Blogging series. Since then, Lucas and his wife Amber bought a home and converted their basement into an incredible home tiki bar. It’s called The Ritual Room and I feel lucky that I got to see this home tiki bar in person! Here is Lucas to tell you all about it …
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The Liki Tiki is in the attic of Lin Cooper’s garage, well it’s more of crawl space but you can fully stand up in it. The only way to get up to this attic or should I say “Liki Tiki” is by a small ladder.
All the dark wood and sharp angles of the garage’s roof are the perfect bones for a tiki bar to be built in, all you got to do is get an actual bar up there! This is exactly what Lin did. After lugging a bar up the small ladder, he added some bamboo furniture and lighting. If there’s anything that you can take away from Lin’s tiki bar, is that you can make anything into a tiki bar, you just need to think outside of the box, or should I say garage?
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Back in the 90’s during the Tiki Revival, before the internet, you learned about tiki by word of mouth, searching out tiki yourself or you read Tiki News. Tiki News was a fanzine created by Otto Von Stroheim and it was very DIY, underground and super cool! Matt Watson lives in Mexico City and decided to get the word out about tiki in Mexico by doing it old school, he started his own tiki fanzine! It’s called La Cultura Tiki Fanzine and I LOVE this! Here is Matt’s story on how the tiki fanzine started and where it’s going…
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