this old house...

Ain't half bad.  An old plantation home was dissected and transplanted from Maui to Puna, Big Island in the 70's.  Huge rooms with high ceilings, wooden floors and that smells that says, "I've been around for a while and seen more than you can you imagine...".  Big glass windows with solid wood framing weigh more than I do, give every room that sunroom feeling.  Situated within walking distance of downtown Pahoa, this house was used by Antherium farmers for, who knows, decades?  


One of my wonderful teachers now owns this house and has made it even more glorious with her feng-shui taste.  Each room is accented with a different color...dining room is all white, $3,000 glass chandelier (a gift) with a lipstick red screen door that leads to a small lenai overlooking the back garden and coi pond.  Yes, it has a coi pond.  Kitchen has teal countertops, lipstick red shelving space for shelves that reach the ceiling, half of them have huge glass cabinet doors.  The front room is yellow with gold trim and big round chinese lanterns hanging from the ceiling.  This room looks like it could be a dance studio, lots of open space, huge windows and smooth wooden floors.  There's a small side room painted lavender, perhaps used to be used for processing antheriums, has a sloped ceiling.  There's the sky blue room, used to be a bedroom, more big windows and copious warm sunlight.  The bathroom with small black stones for the shower floor, old porcelain tub and antiquated built-in linen closet and drawers.  The side room with dark brown hardwood floors and a parasol in lieu of a ceiling fan, with decorative opening at the top of one wall connecting into another, smaller side room.  Other small room has same flooring and big half wall of drawers, looks like it could have been an herbal clinic.  


Pictures coming soon.


Cleaned the dining room and kitchen from top to bottom - almost literally - scrubbed the ceilings, walls, counters, shelves, chandelier, window frames, window cills and everything in between.  No floors because they're being replaced.  It was a long, but satisfying day.
Arthur worked on fixing up the landscaping around the house.  Cut down some overgrown weed trees, weeded beds, cleared around property line.  Slowly but surely we're getting it ready to be rented out it full state of loveliness.