How Outdoor Tiki Torches Can Adorn Your Luau Party

Planning to throw a fun-filled luau party? Well, luau parties are meant for fun and frolic. The party items such as tiki torches, inflatable palm trees, flower garlands, lanterns, candles, and cocktail umbrellas are going to make your party whimsical and magical. Without a doubt, these items have an enormous power to create a tropical feel for your party.

Certainly, you have a number of things to do before you compile your guest list. You have brought all those items which would light up your garden as well as lighten up mood of your guests! How about decorating your backyard with those captivating tiki torches for your luau party? Let’s see how we can place them beautifully and safely in your backyard.

Purchase durable tiki torches

It is easy to buy sturdy outdoor tiki torches with outstanding designs, sizes, and colors. You get them in mosaic designs and conical or tulip shapes. Most of these tiki torches are with unique features of snuffer caps and powder coated garden poles. Go for the torches which use standard oil and fiberglass wicks.

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Arrange the tiki torches aesthetically

Take an estimate of the lawn space. If it is a small-to-medium sized one, 5-6 tiki torches ensure enough lighting. Next, find out the attractive areas in your garden where you can arrange your tiki torches aesthetically. However, do not place it irrationally because uneven placing may not help the light to spread out the entire lawn area. Put it together in a way it gives the real feel and fun of luau party. You should leave spaces for other items like party banners, inflated palm trees, life sized cut outs, and luau lanterns.

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Place it safely

You arrange a party where the little tots would care nothing about the fire hazards! They can bump into it any time sooner. Make sure that your outdoor tiki torch inserted tightly into concrete or solid ground so that it wouldn’t tumble if knocked. Place it away from outdoor sheds, tree branches, and any inflammable materials. You should always make sure that you have placed outdoor torches closer enough to get the light but in a safe way. You should also make sure that your other luau fun items are placed in a safe distance.

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Chase off those bugs and insects

Installing a tiki torch filled with citronella oil keeps the mosquitoes and other insects at bay. The best thing about this oil is this wouldn’t produce smoke and annoy your guests. Also, you can make certain that the exotic fragrance of your luau menus do not get mix up with the odor of insect repellents. So place the torches wisely in the mosquito, bugs and insects targeted areas of your backyard to drive them away!

How to Add Glow in Outdoor Gathering with Outdoor Tiki Torches

This is the backyard barbeque time again and you want to throw a party in style! What are the perfect ingredients that would spice up your celebration? Let’s talk first about tiki torches. No evening garden party is complete without those lovely pieces of lighting arrangement. You would find your guests go gaga over the charming tiki torches that space out on either side to line the pathway.

Your beautiful garden and tiki torches make an awesome barbeque day. Other than illuminating the walkway, tiki torches can be placed near the patios for light or decorated around your swimming pool for a poolside party. Whatever it might be, you want to create a fun-filled ambience and make sure that your guests had a gala time.

If you are planning to line your pathway with tiki torches for your backyard barbeque party, then go for the ones that can be easily inserted into the ground. And, if you have a stone pathway, you can decorate it with magnificent tiki troches which would create a tropical feel and give an aesthetic ambience to the party. Though you can keep it on the tabletop; for patios, you can place it a little far as the odor of the mosquito repellants would be overwhelming for the guests.

As you are aware, in a garden party, the guests are carefree and like to freely move around. Therefore, there is always a chance of your guests stumble over the torches or run into it. So arrange it in a manner which they will not wobble if slightly bumped.

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You can avail a variety of torches that satisfies your needs and tastes. You can even make a bamboo tiki torch if you have enough time and patience. Or otherwise, if you cannot spare time and wish to get hold of a durable item, go and get it from a reliable retail store that sells sturdy tiki torches. Most of these mosaic-designed torches have either conical or tulip shapes which give an elegant look.  The snuffer caps and powder coated garden poles assures the durability. It features easy-fill containers with standard lamp oil and fiberglass wick.

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Though the torches adorn your backyard with their sober ambience, let’s be little bit careful about installing a tiki torch as none of us want any fire hazards in our festivity. Only a bit of attention is enough to avoid such mayhem. Keep your tiki torches a safe distance from combustible materials, tree branches, and buildings. Don’t leave your tiki unattended. Once the party is over, extinguish the flame right away.

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So finally, I do not need to explain how it is important for you to engage each guest individually and make them feel special. You know how to arrange a perfect tiki torch party with tiki menus, well, don’t just forget to serve those umbrella drinks and fresh fruit skewers! and tiki-themed music to entertain your guests to the hilt.

Tiki Torches in Purple and Green The Hottest Colors this Summer!

Green - it’s so pc to be green today. That’s the recycling-environmentally-friendly shade of green. And purple - what can anyone say about this color? It’s been the favorite color of kings and little girls for ages. When these colors combine you may think they create brown, but they really paint the hottest summer yet. How?

Okay, first get out the tiki torches. Now grab your jug of Purple Skeeter Beater - what? You don’t have any?? Well… this is going to be fun!

The Purple Skeeter Beater is a new fuel for tiki torches and is available online at BackyardBargain.com. And it may look purple, but it’s really green because:

Purple Skeeter Beater is made of 100% recycled vegetable oil

It contains citronella, which means you get tiki torch lighting and mosquito protection

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Purple Skeeter Beater burns twice as long as standard tiki torch fuel, so it will save-save-save fuel and money

It won’t harm your grass, flowers or any of your landscaping

Purple Skeeter Beater burns clean - it’s environmentally friendly - no pollution at all!

Match this great new fuel with durable tiki torches and you have years of summer lighting ahead of you! The new line of tiki torches isn’t like the old torches: flimsy, easily breakable and usually only good for a few seasons. Nope.

Some tiki torches are made of metals and built to last as long as your backyard. The really great part, though, is the selection. Styles, colors, size… every square yard of your yard has its tiki torch match!

So if you have tiki torches from BackyardBargain.com and light them with Purple Skeeter Beater… well, you’ve just turned your little world as green as it gets!

Now can you see how purple can really be green this summer? Go ahead - make your yard even greener!

How is Your Outdoor Decor?

A beautiful yard is like a fabulously decorated home: well thought out, purposefully designed and carefully put together. If the impression your yard gives is as important to you as the interior of your home, you’ll want to invest time and thought into this outdoor extension of your living space. You’ll enjoy the rewards of your efforts for many years - and receive many compliments along the way!

Okay, to start: you’re the landscape architect - pull up a chair and let’s get to work! Let’s start by deciding:

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What you want to use the space for.

This can be single or multi-purpose. Talk to everyone in the house and brainstorm together. You may want to keep the entire space in thick, green grass just for putting practice (single-purpose). Or you may want to have a space for the kids and another for adults (multi-purpose). Do you cook outdoors? Want a flower bed? How about an area for your pets?

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The other thing that goes hand-in-hand with this is considering what you’re working with.

Is your land flat, hilly, rocky or full of trees?

How much sun/shade does each area get at different times of the day - and will it make a difference for that area’s purpose?

Do you have a noisy neighbor? You probably wouldn’t want to put a meditation corner near them.

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Safety should be the first consideration for children’s play areas. Place them away from streets and alleys, don’t position the slide to end in the pond (unless that’s what you want) and keep Fido’s pooh-pooh area far away from their little feet!

Now get out a pencil and paper - or landscaping software - and map out the spaces, keeping in mind the “lay of the land” and other pertinent factors. For now just make general circles or squares to mark the space for each purpose.

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What style you want to use.

Is it formal, informal, country, eclectic? And don’t forget to consider what’s already there, like the architecture of the house or the style of existing fencing. Consider the style of existing structures that will stay and how those styles will fit in your plan.

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What color palate you’ll use.

Of course you must consider other existing colors: siding and trim on existing buildings and fences, landscaping colors, maybe even the color of a neighbor’s garage if it’s butted up to your yard.

My house is blue with white trim, and that’s what I chose to use for the outdoor decor: my chair cushions are a great blue floral, the stone deck is colored blue-gray and I just planted one of those gorgeous blue hyacinths next to the neighbor’s white fence. Now, I could have gone with a green palate because there’s so much green in the yard already (grass, trees), but that’s just me.

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Now comes the fun - uh, I mean the hard part: shopping for everything you need. And color coordinating it. And making sure the styles coordinate. And having friends over to analyze the work (over food and drinks of course). And somehow, somehow managing to hold up under the enormous amount of praise and compliments you’ll receive for your labors.

It’s a tough job. But someone’s got to do it. Might as well be you!