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Build Your Tiki Bar. Atmosphere and gear for a tiki bar at home
Build Your Tiki Bar

A real tiki vibe at home—room, drinks, soundtrack.

Plan the lounge, mix the drinks, put a record on. Shop the gear when you need it.

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Room, drinks, soundtrack

Start with the space you have. Pull drink recipes that fit a home bar. Put on mid-century exotica while you mix. Mugs, lights, and mixers come when you need them for the room you picked.

Pick your space

Three common setups. The builder filters gear for the one you choose.

  • Indoor Nook

    A cart corner that still reads as a bar. Cordless glow, no solar required.

    Start in the builder

  • Basement Lounge

    Plug-in lamps and a sit-down pour surface when the budget stretches.

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  • Outdoor / Patio

    Solar-friendly lighting, weather-safe seating, and a pour cart that can live outside.

    Start in the builder

How-tos, nights, and know-how

Corner bars, hosting nights, and the know-how behind the pour.

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Drinks worth putting on the menu

Classics with full recipes: ingredients, method, and music pairings when we have them.

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Ready to pour?

Shopping list and pantry, plus planners for what you can make next.

Put something on

Mid-century exotica that fills a lounge without fighting the table. Exotica pairs with a Mai Tai.

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Exotica

Martin Denny

1957 · Exotica

Piano, vibraphone, marimba, and those animal noises are still the default tiki-bar vocabulary. Put it on and the room reads as mid-century Honolulu whether or not anyone knows the title.

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Ritual of the Savage

Les Baxter

1951 · Exotica

Where Denny is a lounge combo, Baxter is the wide shot. The 1951 charts still sound like a studio jungle picture, which is useful when you want the bar a little darker than a hotel lanai.

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Taboo

Arthur Lyman

1958 · Exotica

Collectors treat it as the audiophile exotica disc. In a dim lounge the vibraphone fills the corners without talking over the table.

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Gear we actually start with

These essentials show up in the builder first: mugs, tools, light, a little wall. Costume-shop kitsch stays off the list.

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