Tiki Bar

Carol and I decided to get a canopy for our patio so we could spend more time outside on hot sunny, (Ha!) and the more likely, rainy days.

We found some 10' X 10” nylon canopies at Wal-Mart for $97.00, bought one and set it up over our patio furniture. Several weeks later they went on sale for $69.00. Oh well!

I saw a project on the Popular Mechanics web site for building a “Tiki Bar” and thought that it looked pretty cool, so I talked Carol into letting me partially enclose the canopy with roll-up blinds and make a bar for ice and drinks.

We found an old 78 RPM record cabinet at a yard sale that was the right height for the bar and I had salvaged a heat lamp table that I made for the restaurant years ago for the bar top.

We hung the blinds from the canopy frame and we now have a cozy enclosure that we can open or close when we want.