HERE IS A HOME WORTHY OF YOUR CONSIDERATION

Yesterday I posted on LET'S ALL MOVE TO HAWAII.  Alas, only highlighted billionaires and where they lived in this state.  But this blog is provided for people who are not that rich.  At last check, 221 countries had visited my site, with a viewership now approaching 2.5 million.  Thus, if you're not quite that wealthy, and want something more affordable, perhaps the following home in Honolulu might just be what you should have, or perhaps you know someone who might.

$2,750,000 Single Family 941 Aliamanu Pl Honolulu, Hawaii 96818 4 bd • 4/0 ba • 2,864 sqft Lot size area:  12,131 sqft MLS #202205832

That aerial view is nice enough, but the key feature is that you will have a spectacular 300 degree panoramic view of the Koolaus, Tripler, Punchbowl, Diamond Head, Ala Moana, Honolulu Harbor, Sand Island, Honolulu International Airport, Pearl Harbor, Ewa, Makakilo, Waipahu, Pearl City to the Waianae Mountain range.  Click on:

https://player.vimeo.com/video/693696985 

for a video of the home.

Or, for a more adventurous look, click on:

https://my.matterport.com/show/?m=oKETCSTbqmt&mls=1 

so you can further scroll to see internal details of each room in any direction, zooming in or out.  Place the cursor on the white circle to move 360 degrees and walk through the home.  Explore the various icons and hints.

Interested?  Contact:

Kay Mukaigawa or 

Dale Tagami Fukushima

ENGEL & VÖLKERS Honolulu

Mobile: +1 808 479 9090 or

             +1 808 330 7784

Office: +1 808 550 0818

Fax: +1 808 550 0819

Email:   kay.mukaigawa@evrealestate.com

            dale.fukushima@evrealestate.com

I got an initial look and took some photos, the first being the gated entry, then the driveway and front door, with Japanese Garden in transition on the side, plus a view of the Ewa direction.

Further, in the Koolau Mountain direction, starting with some lemon and Okinawa blood orange trees.

In the home, the kitchen.

The great room in the Diamond Head direction.

A second great room towards the pool with airport view.

From the first Great Room, the Koolau Mountain range, with Tripler Army National Hospital, panning towards Honolulu, to the Punchbowl National Cemetery of the Pacific and Diamond Head peaking above the Kakaako condo towers.

Here are the details.

Property size is 12,131 sf

Well maintained 2,800+ sf house with 4 bedroom/4 full baths

Great Room to kitchen to a second Great Room open concept

3 OTT electricity to home

31-panel photovoltaic system

House exterior and interior freshly painted

Living room has new vinyl planks

Kitchen has ceramic tile

New extension has travertine tiles

All bedrooms have new carpet

Rheem central AC system recently installed

Mitsubishi split duct AC

Kitchen:

·       Thermidor stand alone stainless steel refrigerator and freezer columns.  Computerized technology makes refrigerated food last longer than conventional refrigerators.   Both have lighting on both sides of columns to see food on every shelf.   Doors are pressurized on closing.   If doors not closed properly, alarm goes off to alert owner.   Refrigerator has meat, vegetable and cold cut drawers with adjustable temperatures.  Freezer has automatic ice maker

·       Miele Coffee System, Built-In coffee, espresso, cappuccino bar with milk froth feature

·       Hansgrohe faucets

·       GE Mongram Built-In Oven with Adventium Speed Cook Technology.   Oven, convection oven and microwave technology using special plates for speed cooking.   Cook brownies in 10 minutes or juiciest grilled chicken breasts in 8 minutes

·       GE Monogram oven with baked enamel shelving for easy clean up and on rollers for pull out ease

·       GE Monogram 6 burner range (recommended by Martin Yan as it burns very hot for wok cooking)

·       GE Mongram range hood (recommended by Martin Yan as it’s a commercial hood with strong suction; put a dollar bill by grill and it will fly to stick to grill because of the strong suction power)

·       Insinkerator 125 HP all metal gears garbage disposal

·       Insinkerator instant performance hot water spigot (spout?)

·       Under sink corner cabinet glides out at right angle with two tiers for maximum use of space in corner

·       Built-In trash and recycle bins

·       Cabinets are generous for storage

·       Two lighted glass cabinets

·       Ceiling has recessed and puck lights which can be rotated to highlight.  Lights above kitchen sink;   lights under kitchen cabinets

·       All kitchen cabinets feature pull out drawers on ball bearings for ease of use    

 Kitchen Island: 

·       Has lots of wall plugs for appliances   

·       Kitchen Island has expansive lower height second counter space for cooking

·       Kitchen Island sits on aluminum stilts for ease of cleaning underneath

·       Kitchen Island has rope lights underneath to create ambience at night

·       Kitchen Island stainless steel sink has vegetable wash bin feature with a built-in cutting board

·       Kitchen Island has cabinets and drawers on three sides with a special pull out utility cabinet with chrome baskets for spices, jars, bottles.  Generous storage space on Island

·       Deep, large, double kitchen sink, has a grid for height while allowing ease of use but minimizing scratching of stainless steel sink

·       Kitchen Island is two tiers.  Top tier is the built in dining or buffet table.  Table top was extended out for comfort to diners sitting around the island so knees would not bump the cabinets  

Entry doors are double doors with see through security glass and convenient for ease of moving large furniture

 

New Extension

·       Recessed, canned and adjustable puck lights

·       Wall plugs are double feature with 10-inch and 40-inch plugs for ease of use.  Generous wall plugs around room for every electrical need.   Less need for dangerous extension cords

·       Built in TV mount which swivels to see TV in any part of the extension

·       Two bump out large painting highlighters, which also serves as ventilation for two bedrooms located on other sides

·       Special order magnificent  Fleetwood high end brand 12  foot,  3 pane tinted sliding glass doors with double safety glass.  See planes landing on runway and the Inter-Island terminal

·       Cooled by 6 Redwood wooden jealousies, special order from RMA Sales

·       Mitsubishi split duct AC

Three chandeliers

Two huge showcases with lots of cabinet and drawer space underneath

Two hallway closets

Main bathroom has two very large floor to ceiling storage closets behind door in addition to the cabinet and under sink storage space

Two bedrooms feature very large closets with mirror sliding closet doors 

One bedroom features very large closet with Japanese shoji doors 

Master Bedroom is very large with a large full bath and very large walk-in closet with built in dresser

 

Takagi tankless water heater for half of house since the bathrooms are too far for the solar heater.   Would waste too much water.   Tankless heater is fed by propane from the 100 gallon propane tank

Solar heater with 120 gallon tank 

Gas Grill propane line has been piped to the garage wall.   Draws propane from the 100 gallon tank

 

Pool with a freshly painted rubberized elastomeric pool deck

Pool Cabana has

·       Full bath with newly tiled shower stall

·       3 big island ohia log posts

·       Pool cabana under roof to protect against weather

·       Pool to house has hexagon stairs with wrought iron handrail

·       Locking wrought iron gates to pool

Laundry room full bath features a large sunken furo tub, very large shower area, separate change room with custom mirror

Laundry room has a lot of cabinet storage space and broom utility closet

 

3-car carport

Carport has very large storage shed

Driveway can theatre tandem park 11-12 cars

 

Lanai’s have freshly painted lanai railings and rubberized elastomeric paint

 

Tangerine and okinawan blood orange trees

Triple pikake bushes and pakalana plants

 

Irrigation system

Security system

 

Electric gate system and pedestrian gate.  Electric gate 5 year battery was recently changed and system serviced

 

Property is tiled and fenced in for security and for pets to run around

 

Property sits in a cul-de-sac

 

Other features:

The view:  Breathtaking, spectacular panoramic 300º view of Koolaus, Tripler, Punchbowl, Diamond Head, Ala Moana, Honolulu Harbor, Sand Island, Airport Industrial, Airport, planes landing on runway, Hickam, Pearl Harbor, Ewa, Makakilo, Waipahu, Pearl City to Waianae Mountain range. From large living room picture window see the mountain and ocean, Tripler and Diamond Head, an exceptionally rare view on Oahu.  

 

This central location home Ideally located close to Aliamanu Elementary and Intermediate schools, Moanalua High School, library, Salt Lake Shopping Center, Target, Moanalua shopping center, Aloha Stadium, Stadium Mall, Kaiser Hospital, 15 minutes to other hospitals, close to bus line, 5 minutes to airport, many corridors to downtown (Moanalua Freeway, Nimitz, Dillingham) and Ewa (airport viaduct, Moanalua Freeway, Salt Lake Blvd, Nimitz)  

 

Additional feature is underground utilities

 

What sets this house apart from other homes is the unobstructed tradewinds blowing from Moanalua Valley to this house.  It is the one feature everyone says “wow, the natural wind, sooo cool”.  A home families will keep through the generations as very few homes can see the mountain and ocean from the living room plus have so much wind to keep house cool.  Absolute MUST SEE.  Truly a GEM and rare opportunity to own a one-of-a-kind home. 

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