Read the news article from AP (American Press Photo News) apphotonew.com written by Correspondent, Michael Ramer from Ft. Pierce, Florida on 5-11-09 in which he writes the following:
BIG KAHUNA SAVES THE DAY
When the tropical breezes blowing off the Indian River just across from the Ft Pierce Inlet, make you feel like life doesn’t get any better than this, the last thing you want to happen is the roof falling down into your Margarita! That’s why the Original Tiki Bar & Restaurant called Big Kahuna to repair their roof. With a section of the bar closed off, and the oh so familiar blue tarp stretched across the ceiling, employees of Big Kahuna Tiki Huts went to work. Using fresh cut Florida palm fronds, they had guests enjoying rum runners and fish sandwiches in no time.www.originaltikibar.com
With clients such as Ritz Carlton Hotels, The City of Naples, FL, and Hyatt Resort’s it’s no wonder management at The Original Tiki Bar & Restaurant called. Besides being featured on TV’s Extreme Home Makeovers, they do new construction along with repairs and restorations for both commercial and residential clients.
Check out their website at: http://www.palmhuts.com/. That night, while the band played and the sun sunk low over the marina, everybody forgot all the hole in the roof just hours earlier, and enjoyed the beauty of another Treasure Coast evening, all thanks to Big Kahuna Tiki Huts.
Click on the start button to check out a video of some of our beautiful tiki huts and tiki bars custom built for clients throughout the state of Florida.
Naples Botanical Gardens in Naples FL hired Big Kahuna Tiki Huts to help complete a new project. The designers of the project were reported in the Miami Herald as the “Dream Team” of nationally and internationally recognized leaders in Green Building Design.
Big Kahuna Tiki Huts was excited to help in “Building Green Design”! Tiki huts were built throughout the gardens. We even built smaller tiki huts in height that will be used only by the children in the “Children’s Gardens”.
We also converted regular signs into signs with a tiki hut roof structure over them, giving the signs an awesome look!
Big Kahuna Tiki Huts feels honored to have been apart of the “Going Green with Eco-Friendly Construction”!
We just completed a tiki hut and tiki bar for a client in St. James City FL. The tiki hut is a 42 foot x 25 foot using solid cypress poles. The tiki bar was a 38 linear foot with bamboo on the front, cypress countertop with half-round, cypress footrest, built-in drink rail, along with built-in hand-carved tiki gods. We also installed an 81 foot drink rail made out of cypress wood. The tiki bar was sprayed with polyurethane to give it the beautiful glow.
The restaurant customers were so excited about it being completed, they were standing around waiting for the tiki bar to open!
Big Kahuna Tiki Huts is currently working on a project for a client in St. James City FL. We just finished the 42 foot x 25 foot structure made out of cypress wood. The next phase will be the thatching of the tiki hut with fresh cut Florida palm fronds.
We will also be custom building a 39 foot tiki bar with built in tiki gods.
Big Kahuna Tiki Huts did work for LaPlaya Beach & Golf Resorts in Naples Florida. They were awarded the USA WINNER OF CONDE NAST JOHANSENS 2008 AWARDS FOR EXCELLENCE.
Check out the inside of the tiki hut in which a flared cypress stump is the center post coming down from the ceiling. This feature gives a unique look and also a ceiling fan can be installed onto this center post.
Check out the work we did for a restaurant in Nokamis FL in which we built a 31 foot x 27 foot tiki hut with hand-carved cypress post designed to look-like bamboo. We also built for them a custom designed tiki bar with hand-carved tiki gods and a deck.
We went to the Grand-Opening party for the new Tiki Hut and it was filled with excited residents that have been looking for this new addition to their community. We were honored to have built this for them.
The Community School of Naples, Florida hired us to rethatch their pre-existing 34 foot x 18 foot tiki hut with fresh cut Florida palm fronds. This process required our crews removing the old palm fronds, hauling away of the palm frond debris, and then rethatching the tiki hut.
