Many years ago in the faraway land of Edmondton, I bought a beaded flower curtain in a vintage store. I only bought one because I thought Chris wouldn’t like it. I really thought he wouldn’t like them …’cuz flowers. However, when we got home and I unpacked it, he liked it! WTH! I could’ve bought […]
Lina bough this cheap outdoor set somewhere because the squirrels were eating the old set and I haven’t had a chance to make any headway on the never-ending list of projects. We bought a set of rattan for the Tiki room and the cushions didn’t even make it to the end of the block after
This was the basement when we bought the house: We found out that the house was surrounded by expansive soil in 2015 and had helical piers installed to try and keep the walls from falling in when the soil got saturated with water and expanded against the walls. Everything was drywalled up after that, but
I wanted to make a Santa hat to match my Tiki jacket and found out that Spoonflower sells a velvet material. So I got a yard with my tiki pattern and went to the internet for some research. The internet was chock full of simple hats with two seams, but I only wanted one seam.
We picked up the shell of this chair in Palm Springs and I restored it for my Motu Nui merit. I bought this pool after our first Ohana and a friend suggested that we tiki it up with some thatch. That’s a great idea! I experimented with some ideas to bamboo-ize some PVC to hold
I came across a Kickstarter a couple of years ago that offered a CNC machine (Maslow CNC) that could cut 4’x8′ sheets of plywood for under $500. (For those who don’t know: A CNC machine allows the user to draw what they want to cut or carve, convert that drawing into x and y coordinates,
When Lina and I first moved to Denver together and got a house. I needed a hobby that got me off the damn computer and decided to try some woodworking after watching some YouTube Videos from The Wood Whisperer (https://thewoodwhisperer.com/) All the videos were great and I learned a lot, including a lot of ideas
I saw this chair at a Tiki show in Palm Springs and I loved it. But we didn’t need any more projects and it wasn’t an easy fit in the truck for the trip home. So, of course, Lina bought it. I made these temporary cushions to hold us over until this winter when we
I always hated the upstairs bathroom off of the master suite when we bought the house in 2013: I was kinda happy when the original shower stall started leaking in 2016 and we brought in our favorite plumber to replace the whole bathroom. We were really happy with the results. It turns out that you
We went to a “How to Make Fake Bamboo from PVC” at Tiki Oasis several years ago and were all gung-ho to make some awesome fake bamboo projects. Then we got busy. There is a photographer coming over to take pictures of the Tiki area, so I wanted to make the pool cover holder look