Post #810674 by ECTiki on Mon, Sep 11, 2023 7:52 AM

One of the design/decoration aspects of home tiki bars that I always focus on has to be doors. I give a lot of credit to people who find ways to make a doorway camouflaged by tiki. For me those who gloss over the importance of the door miss one of the greatest aspects of tiki. The door is the portal to escape.

During my last bar build I used a large Moai decal on a vibrantly colored door to jazz up the doorway a bit. I was neither pleased nor proud of the results. Wallpaper seems to be a common method to blend a conventional doorway. I’ve also seen dark wood stain and bamboo slats used to skin a door’s surface. For some odd reason the doorway for me is the portal to the escape and sets a tone.

For example (to me) the entrance door at Don the Beachcomber had a very “escapey” feel to me. When I compare the doorways of the two juggernaut tiki bars in Vegas. The Golden Tiki’s door feels like you’re entering someplace special, while Frankies (one of our favorite bars ever) just feels like the way in…

So, we needed doors to access the new deck placed in the spot where the window had been removed. We wanted the doors to be special. We found some very interesting doors in our search. Our design was for a set of double doors. Based on our budget and timeline we opted for some commercially available mahogany doors….