North Kona Home Sales

THE ANSWER TO THE BURNING QUESTION, is real estate looking up in Kona is simply, no one knows but it is well worth your time to spend a few minutes looking at ceiling details.  In an area where most homes are “custom”, a great deal of time and money has been spent making these homes perfect from top to bottom.

 ATTENTION TO DETAIL STARTS AT THE TOP! In Hawaiian homes, when I say at the top, I mean it starts with the ceilings. This exposed wood ceiling is very typical in today’s medium to high priced homes. Sometimes we see pickled or painted wood. That lightens the room, but look at the room light solution incorporated into this nearly new Puu Lani Ranch home.

BRINGING LIGHT INTO EVEN THE LARGEST ROOMS, skylights allow you to keep the natural color of the wood you selected without making your spacious home feel like a dungeon. Strategically placed skylights will brighten even the darkest hallway, kitchen or closet.

THERE IS NOTHING CONTRIVED ABOUT ARCHITECTUAL DETAILS that are the bones of the structure itself. The corner location of this garden tub takes advantage of ceiling details and an outside view to create a pleasant retreat. See how this is example of country casual being built in Hawaii today contrasts with the vintage ranch below.

 GENERATIONS OF LOVE AND CARE come together to create the atmosphere this Captain Cook Bed and Breakfast displays so well. At it’s heart, koa creates the spirit of home. Huge beams support the roof in the gathering room. Koa, one of the beautiful Hawaiian woods now nearly extinct and extremely rare, was plentiful at the time this home was constructed. It was also used for walls, shelving and floors.

FEW HOMES HAVE THE WOW FACTOR you see at every turn in this vintage Keauhou Estates home, known as The Dolphin House. It’s about the sculpture and view. It’s about the water and the sound of water. It’s about the breeze too. The breeze is encouraged by an updraft through the clerestory windows providing both light and air above the enormous sculpture. The Dolphin House in Keauhou Estates was only on the market a short time before it was snapped up by some savvy buyer.

HIGH CEILINGS WITH CLERESTORY WINDOWS create updrafts and encourage constant circulation on warm days. Airflow is a major consideration in Hawaii. Air conditioning systems here are rare because they discourage the Indoor/Outdoor lifestyle that attracted most of us to the tropics.

SOARING CEILINGS AND ARCHITECTURAL DETAIL combined to create interesting opportunities to display art and collections in this wonderful Holualoa country home.  At lower elevations these windows might contain only screen.

THESE COLOR CHOICES were a little unusual for Kona, but this was such a pretty room I brought the focus down off the wonderful tray ceilings so you could see the floors too. This master suite  included a large bath and closet, not to mention the view.

These photos were taken on our Realtor’s KONA CARAVAN over the past year. If you have questions about any of these homes, please call or e-mail me.

Joyce Murphy, Realtor Broker BIC
Hawaiian Isle Real Estate LLC and Luxury Real Estate Florida, Inc.
“In Real Estate, Experience Counts!”
808-443-4302
www.KonaBigIsland.com

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