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How to Decorate a Home Bar With Tacky Tiki Accessories

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Tacky Tiki accessories are fun. They turn any home or wreckroom into a Hawaiian paradise.

There are several signature kitsch things that most people need to make this look from the era of the fifties and sixties work for them. First off you need a Polynesian retro home cocktail tiki bar complete with yellow and teal fifties print on the side and black bar stools. You then add signs and figurines to make it look authentic. Wood figurines of Tiki god and candle holders make the place look festive.

Decorating the room with vintage surfboards, particularly if they have Tiki gods emblazoned on them, is also a nice idea.

As far as lamps go make sure you have the God of Money Ambient lamp which looks like a totem pole or carved head of the God through which light shines through.
If you are serving coffee make sure that you serve it up in a ceramic mug shaped like a gaily colored parrot or in one that has a handle like a palm tree. You can also get ones that lookalike the Tiki Island Mugs.

Cleverness in the design of ceramic objects is signature to Tiki style. They are famous for tacky platters with images of waves, flowers, palm trees and girls wearing hula skirts on the side.

You can also get all kinds of very amusing Tiki style punch bowls including a volcano center drink bowl that spurts the punch up through a central fountain.

Many Tiki style party trays are also made of wood and carved in the shapes of leaves, palm trees or other interesting shapes. Tiki style is also famous for the Party Pics. These are cocktail spears and hors d’oevres spears that have things like parrots, palm trees and monkeys on top of them. You can stick these into fruit to decorate cocktails or you can stick them into the side of canapés and snacks.

Hula dolls with bobble heads or hips that bounce and swing are also popular knick-knacks associated with this type of Polynesian décor. The bare breasted woman wearing a lei and a grass skirt and playing ukulele is a classic fun knick knack from this era.

A great item to hang in your Tiki bar is a Floral Ukele decorated with psychedelic green and red flowers. You can entertain your guests by playing if you so feel inclined as well.

How to Decorate With Coca-Cola Collectibles

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You can decorate a home or a restaurant with Coca-Cola collectibles. They also look quite smart in a corner store.

Not many people know this but aside from the famous apple red coolers and fridges with the logo on them the corporation also makes a lot of vintage style furniture. It makes high checker stools and also vintage pub style stools and all in red leather. They also make styles where the logo appears in a checker pattern on the table or on the stools as well as many variation of the classic pub style.

The company makes all kinds of little gizmos and gadget that would look great in a party room, kitchen or home bar or in a real bar or fifties style diner. A favorite is the wall mounted Vitnage Coca Cola Bottle opener or the boxy style of manual opener that has a cap catcher. You can also get napkin dispensers, toothpick dispensers, tin canisters, wood chalk boards, trays, sugar dispensers, napkins, paper towels and other kitchen diner type standard fixtures with the logo on them. You can even get cute little miniature glass salt and pepper shakers that look like miniature green coke bottles.

The company also makes some pretty nice clocks and lamps. One desk lamp has a shade that looks like the famous coca-cola tin can. Another attractive lamp shade features the retro coke girl in bikini on a beach. You can also get neon fifties style clocks that glow a candle apple red. Also very nostalgic and reminiscent of seventies and eighties styles of décor is the tiffany lamp and stained glass pendant lamp styles that come with the coca cola logo on them.

Always in the demand is the giant round red “Drink Coca-Cola” sign that has a red background and a glowing white “Drink Coca-Cola” with a neon star on it.

You can also get many different mirror styles, included mirrors with lights that have the Coke logos on them. Many of them boast famous images from the fifties including a waitress with a tray or the young fifties couple having fun while drinking a glass of coke. The company also sells retro-reproductions of all of its famous canvas wall art including pictures of families picnicking, students snacking and drinking coke and soda fountain images. The company calls this line of art their “Great Taste” art.