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In-Home Bars: Why go to the bar when you can build one in your loft?
That was the thinking of Chicago-based artist Dustin Ruegger. Using
scrap wood, bar stools found in an alley, palm leaves, and decorations
from the thrift store, Dustin built a Tiki bar in his house. Channeling
the ghost of tropical vacations past, Dustin strung lights and netting
over a wooden fence he constructed, decked it out with artificial
plants, and installed handmade shelving for a stereo system and a TV
that plays a found amateur video loop of tropical fish swimming in a
tank. Now instead of biking to an overcrowded watering hole, Dustin and
his friends gather around his Tiki bar to drink rum cocktails and play
low stakes poker.
