Elegant, “hotel-style” horseshoe double entry/exit driveway welcomes you to this lushly landscaped 4-bedroom 2,300 sq ft. solid redwood corner lot home at Lua Kula St and Laie St., Waikoloa Village. View of lovely Waikoloa golf course behind home. Walking distance to Association’s golf course/club house. tennis courts and swimming pool and Waikoloa Village Shopping Center. 15 min. to Kohala Coast resorts/shopping/dining, 6 more championship golf courses and pristine white sand Hapuna Beach.

EXTENSIVELY REMODELED....

SCROLL DOWN FOR DETAILS OF UPGRADES

View from front entrance door to raised island of Japanese temple grass and flowering royal poinciana tree 30 yrs old. Horseshoe driveway/2 entry/exits.

Backyard lawn.

View of 12th hole of

Waikoloa Golf Course.

Early  morning sunshine

beams through this  opening

and floods dining room and kitchen and living room and master bedroom.

68-3771 Lua Kula St., Waikoloa Village.

GREAT LOCATION. Half mile from Waikoloa Shopping Center. As you can see, the property is adjacent to Waikoloa Golf Course and an oversized corner lot

and privatized by 34 year-old trees and hedges.

HUGE DREAM KITCHEN

Very spacious “island stove/counter” (see photo below) kitchen. NEW STAINLESS STEEL GLASS TOP STOVE & MATCHING STAINLESS REFRIGERATOR. Wrap -around counter space, drawers/cabinets and small kitchen phone desk. Foreground space (larger than photo shows) can be either a dining area or living room area. Another adjacent room with backyard access and view would be either dining or living room. Two great options

FRONT ENTRANCE HALLWAY.

Photo at right shows new Italian “rojo ariacante” marble just installed as a stylish accent.

GARAGE

526 sq ft garage is built with 6”X12” redwood beams and redwood siding with large closets for storage. Two full length cars parking plus to the left large gravel parking space for two more cars. New owner might simply convert garage into a beautiful “ohana” private guest quarters or big office or other use.....and build a simple “carport” to the left.

PHOTO GALLERY

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2ND BEDROOM with window view of garden.

3RD BEDROOM with  view of garden. New carpet & new marble & laminate flooring in both very big closets (not visble in photo).

4th BEDROOM 12‘X16’ with also a 7‘X12’ WALK-IN CLOSET

This room has a very big walk-in closet behind

rear wall  in photo. We just installed Maui-washed oak laminate flooring in this walk-in closet and new beautiful carpet flooring and Hawaiian “curly Koa”

laminate flooring at end of room adding a little extra beauty.....

DEN/OFFICE Photo is too narrow to show full width.

ADDITIONAL PHOTOS

NEW TRAVERTINE MARBLE

SPA SINK and EMPERADOR

ITALIAN MARBLE

TILE IN SECOND

MASTER BATH

FERNS/BLACK BAMBOO

LINED PATH of redwood

chips. Borders house.

NEW ITALIAN

“MICHELANGELO”

TILE IN NORTH WING

FOYER

VAULTED.

Magnificent

6”X12” REDWOOD

beams/rafters are

throughout the

home, providing

that “luxurious

spacious feel.”

Three large

skylights light up

the home.

YES, we harvest

a stalk of bananas

every few months

from about a dozen

banana trees behind

the kitchen. Kana Nozawa

(left) very happy.

YES, husband Thomas

really does do the

landscaping....

here planting Japanese

“emerald zoyshia” temple

grass under one of four

30-year-old royal poncianas

that adorn and shade the

property.

Lushly landscaped

tile pathway

to NorthWing

patio second

entrance

to the home.

One of two large closet spaces in 2nd bedroom.

NOTE: MARBLE FLOOR. All the bedroom closets in the home

were refloored with MARBLE or MAUI WHITEWASHED OAK

LAMINATE FLOORING.

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Note: a lot of this is already presented above.

This is a VERY DETAILED LIST OF HOUSE IMPROVEMENTS

REMODELING & UPGRADES

  MARCH 2012  - FEB 2015

NOZAWA HOME: 68-3771 LUA KULA/LAIE ST. WAIKOLOA

BRIEF HISTORY

My husband and I bought this home in March 2012.

My husband, a landscape designer for many years, immediately began a 3-year project to magnificently landscape this property which with the exception of five grand 30-year-old trees and a desperate-for-water oleander hedge around the property, was pretty bleak. The home itself was and still is a jewel, solid redwood, 6"X12" beams vault the ceilings throughout the home. Even the siding is redwood, extremely rare in Waikoloa Village and makes the home virtually impenetrable to termites –endowing the house with a sense of  agelessness.

We met our neighbors in short time. They told us this was always "The House" in the upper end of Waikoloa Village,  because of its "hotel-like" entry/exit  huge horseshoe   driveway and sheer size (2,300 sq ft.) and oversized lot 13,000 sq ft and location – edge of golf course and near the shopping center.

The builder was Japanese and had it creatively designed with vaulted ceilings and divided into two "Wings"…making it was is called a "two generation home" (parents on one and kids on the other) internally separated by a long hallway and a glass door access central dining room. The most recent owner did some major upgrading in 2010, most impressively putting on a new roof of high-grade shingles with 40-year lifetime. Soon after this, she put the house on the market and it sat there for almost two years.

Thanks to my husband's 3 years of landscaping, this home is now one of the most luxuriously beautiful landscaped verdant   properties in Waikoloa Village. All the neighbors marvel at the amazing transformation. He installed a very extensive  irrigation system, 6 channels, with pop-up sprayers and hundreds of feet of drip lines so the entire property is now automatically watered on a daily basis.

I focused on the interior –first hiring a carpenter to go through the entire house and repair everything needed…. Adding sink disposal, dishwasher, new water heater, new interior doors, door handles, doorjambs, etc. etc. Then in the last six months I launched on a second phase of upgrading to make it more luxurious-- adding new Italian marble floors in the master bathroom, new entrance stonework, new carpets and new flooring for all the bedrooms, new spa sink in the second master bath, new glass top stove, new refrigerator, all the kitchen cabinets refurbished with new handles, new 5" stylish baseboards throughout… and many, many more luxury style improvements listed below.

IMPROVEMENTS & REMODELING UPGRADES

1. HUGE EXTENSIVE IRRIGATION SYSTEM

New Irritol irrigation 6-valve system, with 8 big pop up sprinklers and approx. 600 ft of drip lines that water absolutely every growing plant/lawn/tree/hedge on the property. (Water is very cheap so mo bill is still low.)

1A. 3 YEARS OF LANDSCAPING & NEW FLORA

Initially removed 4 inches of "dead" topsoil and dead hedges next t to the house….and removed a couple tons total of rocks and had all that hauled away. My husband then replaced the grounds with two 10 ton trucks of high-quality organic dirt/soil, spreading it everywhere we planned to landscape and plant new flora.

"I have been continuously landscaping/planting this property for the last nearly three years. It has been basically my primary

occupation for these years.  My most well-known project was the Spiritual Park of Mauritius, a 10-acre botanical park with lakes & waterfalls. Took 5 years to build with a 15-man crew."

–Thomas Nozawa-McCain,

husband of Kana Nozawa

and professional international

landscape architect for thirty years.

SHORT LIST OF NEW GRASSES AND FLORA

– 50 – 1 ft X 2 ft trays of grass sod…Japanese Emerald zoyshia, El Toro Zoyshia, St. Augustine and Bermuda. Hand planted and today the house is surrounded by lawns with the biggest open lawn in the backyard.

– many rare colored bougainvilleas, white flower "honeymoon" bushes, several non-invasive ficas benjamina (banyans), variegated and reg Indicas, 7 varieties of ferns, Chinaman's Hat, Neem tree, aloe Vera, 5 exotic 5 years matured, BLACK TIMOR BAMBOO ($300 each), 15 more bamboos (including very rare and very expensive! "white/blue" Chungii) and Barbella both from China. Several varieties of white flower bushes. One big golden bamboo. 20 yellow flower gingers. 7 white flower (hard to find) gingers/fragrant variety. 10 banana trees (already harvested four stalks) Ice Cream, Apple and two other tasty local varieties. Half dozen payaya trees. 2 five-year old coconut trees.

Five Monstera broad-leafed Hawaii ferns. Japanese silk grass.

One 5-year old lime tree. A fruit-bearing Surinam Cherry

And a big mature fruit-bearing Acerola Cherry. Two big

Wine caskets, auto-irrigated, for herbs. 10 banana trees (already harvested four stalks) Ice Cream, Apple and two other tasty local varieties. Half dozen payaya trees.  Too many more to list.

OTHER NEW LANDSCAPING FEATURES

Lovely pathways of redwood chips, six stone staircases to access the two big elevated mound/hills on the front of the property. 3 big Eucalyptus logs for back border on gravel

Parking area adjacent to main car garage.

An organic garden: elevated with stone wall in backyard.

I improved the soil with new organic soil/manure mulch etc.

And we have had many harvests of a multitude of veggies.

So many more flora items

2. NEW 80-gal WATER HEATER

New (Jan/2013) 80-gallon top-of-the-line electric water heater.  Tons of hot water, never runs cold.

(The old one was outside on the rear tile patio and looked very  unsightly there so we had the new one placed

unobtrusively in the corner of the indoor dining patio)

3. NEW SECOND KITCHEN

New North side patio kitchenette. New sink, redwood counter, refrigerator, cabinet, new lighting with switch and new outdoor outlet/waterproof, new gas stove and new redwood flooring for half the area. Half is tiled. Thomas, my husband, landscaped partial perimeter with Japanese temple grass and three wine caskets with three palms.

4.  THREE NEW INTERIOR DOORS

-- two on the North Wing to give more privacy for each bedroom there. We hired a high-end carpenter for three weeks to go through the entire house, and make all the house doors open/close smoothly….new door jambs where needed and new screens. He did dozens of minor upgrades to all areas of the house. 

5. NEW MARBLE FLOORS

    Michelangelo Italian marble (dark brown white veins) for  

     North Wing foyer.

     Breccia Oniciata (cream white Italian marble with veins) for North Wing

     Master bathroom

     Rojo Aricante for main front entrance hallway.

6. LUXURY SPA SINK &MARBLE COUNTER, SOUTH WING BATH

    A new raised spa sink (Travertine chiseled marble  with classy faucet handles. And new Emperador marble tile counter top

7. FOUR NEW CEILING FAN & LITE FIXTURES FOR

    all four bedrooms.

8. NEW   CARPETS INSTALLED FOR 3 (of the four) BEDROOMS

   Three of the four bedroom have new rust/orange/red

    With white mix design called "Bittersweet" Installed:

    December 2014. (New Maui white-washed oak flooring

    (or white marble) installed in all closets and walk-in closets.)

9. NEW "MAUI WHITEWASH OAK" FLOORING FOR

     NORTH WING MASTER BEDROOM 16'X 20' (and closets)

10. MAIN KITCHEN TOTALLY REMODELED Nov/2014

      – New 70" X 30" stainless steel Frigidaire refrigerator

      – New luxurious glass-top Stainless steel stove, 

          Frigidaire

All cabinets and drawers totally refurbished, stained and

Sealed with new handles.

– New marble counter top for serving counter

–drawers all relined with high quality material

– dish washer installed a couple years ago

– garbage disposal grinder installed under sink

– island stove counter ..Michelangelo tile added

11. BASEBOARDS OF HOUSE REPLACED WITH

      ATTRACTIVE 5" NEW BASEBOARDS. Elegant.

12. NEW INTERIOR PAINT for entire main section of home

   including kitchen. Done by team of painting professionals. Walls cleaned first and very handsome job!

13. --BIG CHANDELIER FOR LIVING ROOM

      -- CEILING FANS W.LIGHTS INSTALLED IN

         ALL B'ROOMS.

     -- NEW ROOF VENTS INSTALLED IN

       2 BEDROOMS ON EAST SIDE OF HOUSE.

14. NEW MAUI WHITEWASH OAK FLOORING

      OR WHITE MARBLE INSTALLED IN ALL

   FOUR BEDROOM CLOTHING CLOSETS.

15. Added a nearly new, Refurbished excellent stack "oversized" washer/dryer.   

16.  Finally, in December 2014, TWO WEEKS  BY HIGH-END FINIS CARPENTER, PLUBMER &ELECTRICIAN  TO ONCE AGAIN GO THROUGH ENTIRE HOUSE AND FIX, ADJUST, REPLACE EVERY SINGLE ITEM THAT NEEDED ATTENTION

E.G. replace old door hinges, replace chipped baseboards,

Replace screens on screen doors, replace hardware for

drawers, install laminate flooring in room closets to replace old carpet flooring there, etc…..

AND my husband added many new drip lines for the irrigation system so every nook and cranny is well-watered…

The home is really in "tip--top-shape"! –a true gem, jade-like, nestled in a sanctuary of verdant greenery.

NEW PHOTO MAY 2015 OF FRONT ENTRANCE WITH  ROYAL

PONCIANAS (RIGHT) IN BLOOM. THE PROPERTY HAS FOUR OF

THESE TREES, 36 YRS OLD AND EXTREMELY BEAUTIFUL. THEY GIVE THE PROPERTY A MAJESTIC “ESTATE” FEELING.