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Location: not sure, but there's a hell of a lot of water around here!
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Katie the Pest will herd anything, even butterfly shadows, although she's not been successful with that. Okay, well back to on topic: border collies are pretty well designed for the climate. They know when to go to the beach and herd surfers.
And to design a dog house for a border collie in a tropical climate we would have to:
1. make the controls for the air conditioner big enough for paws?
2. put a lanai for them to watch the sheep while in the shade? (Get sheep for them to watch?)
3. Plant trees to keep the sheep and dog shady along with the house?
4. Get some thicker shoji screen panels.
I've lived in that house in the second pic, right down to the sag in the floor, stainless counter sink, and 50's era cabinets. Of course, the house was in Kula, but it was the same house.
My first house looked like that, I think it was made in 1951. It was pretty well cared for, but it was like me, required more and more maintenance.
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This one (the one in the second picture) was built in '51, although it's on the Big Island and not Kula - be nice if we could move it to Kula, but don't think that's gonna happen. Don't think the builder worked very far outside of this area since his other job was with the sugar company as a cabinet builder.
It's our current project house and we are at the beginning of the project. It will take a couple of years to get it more or less rehabilitated. We're still at the patching the leaks in the roof stage, although we've gotten past the basic utilities stage.
It was built in 1951 and was lived in until 1985 when it's people got a job on Oahu but planned on coming back. They never did, although the relatives who lived nearby kept an eye on the house and mowed directly around it. We have about twenty seven some years worth of maintenance to catch up on so it's a bit of a slog. The location is good, though. Everything else is much easier to fix than location.
I'm still trying to decide how fifties we should go with it. Maybe Mid Century Modern as a generic theme instead of specifically 50's. I suppose there is the sub-genre of Mid Century Modern Tropical Look, although how that would be defined isn't in a lot of decorating books.
Of the three houses, this one is the most comfortable to live in. When it's been ungawdly hot these past several weeks, it's been quite comfortable at the house - even with the interior ceilings out and nothing up there except an aluminum roof. I'm not sure if it's the lack of ceiling which is keeping it cool or just the rest of the old style construction which is doing it. Maybe I'll put some movable vents up in the ceiling and insulate it, too. If it gets too hot, open the vents and let hot air out? (Or would hot air come in?) Although, I suppose we could put the new ceiling in (wish they still made canec) and then see if it needs vents.
Location: not sure, but there's a hell of a lot of water around here!
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I'm still trying to decide how fifties we should go with it. Maybe Mid Century Modern as a generic theme instead of specifically 50's. I suppose there is the sub-genre of Mid Century Modern Tropical Look, although how that would be defined isn't in a lot of decorating books.
Those are two good choices. If the pineapple were more realistically colored and the shade was wider and shorter to give it more of a mid-century feel, it would be about perfect. I'm thinking maybe pineapples for the kitchen theme since it's got pineapple yellow formica counter tops. With the chrome trim, of course. We may build in some recessed lighting, too, although I don't think recessed lights were very typical of either Hawaiian architecture or the fifties.
Hawaii has a tropical climate cooled by trade winds. Normal daily temperatures in Honolulu average 73°f (22°c) in February and 81°f (27°c) in August; the average wind speed is a breezy 11.3 mph (18.2 km/h). The record high for the state is 100°f (38°c), set at Pahala on 27 April 1931, and the record low is 12°f (−11°c), set at Mauna Kea Observatory on 17 May 1979.
Rainfall is extremely variable, with far more precipitation on the windward (northeastern) than on the leeward side of the islands. Mt. Waialeale, Kauai, is reputedly the rainiest place on earth, with a mean annual total of 486 in (1,234 cm). Kukui, Maui, holds the US record for the most precipitation in one year—739 in (1,878 cm) in 1982. Average annual precipitation in Honolulu (1971–2000) was 18.3 in (46.5 cm). In the driest areas—on upper mountain slopes and in island interiors, as in central Maui—the average annual rainfall is less than 10 in (25 cm). Snow falls at the summits of Mauna Loa, Mauna Kea, and Haleakala—the highest mountains. The highest tidal wave (tsunami) in the state's history reached 56 ft (17 m).
Hawaii has a tropical climate cooled by trade winds. Normal daily temperatures in Honolulu average 73°f (22°c) in February and 81°f (27°c) in August; the average wind speed is a breezy 11.3 mph (18.2 km/h).
That is HILARIOUS We'd all love to be experiencing 81F in August right now, I guess you could if you walk around at 4am. ha ha ha
Trade winds??????? I've heard of them - just not this summer. ha ha ha
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