"There's a feeling I get, when I look to the West, and my spirit is crying for leaving."

Tucked into a space in my living home museum of oddities and wonders, lies Trader Iggy’s Tiki Bar.

When my beloved ferret Iggy passed away, I made a vow to his memory that I’d make this a reality. Iggy was one of the OG “internet ferrets” in the early 2010s. He was best known for partying it up and living life to the fullest, consequences be damned. He entertained thousands of people world-wide in his heyday.

This bar is devoted to him and his attitude of “play now” and “eat-drink everything”. I’m always adding to it. The bar’s theme is adventure/mid century/Polynesian/jungle/pirate kitsch.

From the salty wreckage of shipwreck shoals to the rocky shores of hidden atolls, I bid you Welcome to Lost Island! Lost Island is home to The Green Spider Lounge & Casino, Castaway Sam's Tavern, The Longboard Lanai Bar & Grill as well as Lost Island Traders

I first started this build so that I might have my own escape from the stresses of reality. Unfortunately I don’t get to work on it as much as I’d like so the build has been slow. But it still serves as a nice little slice of paradise.

Spare bedroom tiki bar in our apartment. Several diy projects.

Completed in 2022.

Step into a fully-functional tiki bar in a stand-alone 600 square-foot pool house. This home bar - Pearl's Hideaway - was built by popular tiki mug & lamp maker, tiki carver, and commercial & home bar builder Woody Miller. The bar features classic bamboo and matting wall coverings, vintage and contemporary tiki art and carvings, hanging lamps and Japanese fish floats, professional bar equipment, top-shelf rum collection on display in the back bar, and vintage rattan furniture. The house includes a guest bedroom and skull-themed bathroom.

The Tiki Atoll started out as just a corner of the bar counter that is between the kitchen and living room of our small Philadelphia apartment. A little space to store my rums, barware and some tiki mugs. During the pandemic lockdowns I started really learning the art of tiki mixology and so I decided to turn the space into a Tiki bar. Since we live in an apartment and can't do anything too permanent we opted for peel and stick wallpaper to add bamboo and color touches. I added photos and some of my paintings. Never complete but complete enough for now.

This is our our Home Bar, Enchanted Reef, We moved house about 1 1/2 years ago into a period style Ranch house which was a lot of work to get back to a 1960's look, One of the many attractions of the house was an almost full size basement which is fairly rare here in the UK, Until recently it has been a dumping room for junk from the move etc, It has now been emptied and is ready for the return of our Home bar we have had in our old House, Our old one was in use for over 20 years and took up our whole lounge, The new bar still not finished but is now open and serving Drinks!, We also run our own Tiki and Vintage related websites. We have been into Tiki since the mid 1990's and have had a home bar since then and have been collecting vintage Tiki since then, When The London Trader Vic's shut recently we luckily managed to save some of the carpet and a few other pieces(Going through their bins late at night after they ripped it all out!) and have put some on the stairs going into the bar

The Dusty Oasis is a semi mobile bar that was first built for Burning Man out of drops from the man build and other salvaged lumber back in 2018 by Trader Nick aka Disco. Since its creation it has moved around quite a lot mostly with forklifts and trailers. It now resides in a makerspace in Reno and sometimes comes out for special events.

This is the home bar of Matt Reese (Reesenik). Matt is an artist and co-owner of Home Aloha along with Jim Bacchi of the Tikiyaki Orchestra.

The Enchanted Tradewinds is John & Nancy Burrows basement home tiki bar in North Spokane. It began construction in December, 2019 and served its first drink in the summer of 2020. John did most of the construction himself, subbing out electrical and drywall. It features a Witco bar and an Oceanic Arts puffer fish lamp along with a well stocked bar. The tradewinds part of the name is a throw back to the Tradewinds motel, a tiki era motel in downtown Spokane that no longer exists as well as a nod to the winds that blow on the Five Mile prairie where the bar is located.