Ohana Avacado

Ohana Nana is a little slice of heaven on Kauai. To facilitate our many creative activities we created a little house, the Ohana Avocado. This sweet little cottage is nestled up too a year long, fruit bearing, avocado tree. The door and window layout takes full advantage of the NE trade winds, and the thick insulations keeps adds to its [...]

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The Chicken the Laid the Golden Egg

The Chicken the Laid the Golden Egg

Today I was thinking about my experience with Laminine thus far and how it is changing my life experiences for the better. I want to pass on what I have noticed —  in the case it might be useful for others. I have been pondering why I and so many others noticed results almost immediately [...]

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Direction Pointing Toward East

Simple Island Home Design that Brings People Together

When designing an island home, large or small, start by first setting some important basic priorities. After choosing the building lot location consider how you will place the home on the lot to best capture the trade winds. This should be one of your top plot plan priorities. Freely circulating trade winds moving about your [...]

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Napali Coast Looking West

The Garden Island, A Place to Pause In Paradise

To the artistic eye the color palette landscapes on the island of Kaua’i almost seem unearthly. They offer a rich array of color hues, saturation, and values depending on the direction of constantly changing light. The Garden Island is the 4th largest of the main Hawaiian Islands and the oldest at 6 million years of age. [...]

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