The Guesthouse Cottage

The Cottage has the feel of an old-time Volcano summer cabin, complete with family antiques and hand-me down furniture. Except for the beds. They are new and comfy.

The Guesthouse - upstairs bedroom

The Guesthouse Cottage sleeps up to six  Rate: $130 dbl. occup. 
+ $20 ea. add'l person  

We have been renting the Cottage to visitors since we moved into our bigger house in 1985. The bedroom, up a flight of beautiful Koa wood stairs, has Koa trimmed windows on four sides, with a queen and two twin beds. The windows themselves are antique, reclaimed from officer's quarters on Oahu. It's a magical room to wake up in. Downstairs, in the Great room are two more twin beds.

 
The Guesthouse - Floor Plan

Claudia's Place 
sleeps up to three
$115 / night, dbl. occup.
+ $20 ea. add'l person 

We built Claudia's Place, a mother-in-law apartment, which shares a front porch with our house, in 1995, for Alan's mother, Claudia. There's a queen bed in the bedroom and a twin bed in the living/kitchen room. It has beautiful antique maple floors. The wood, from a 1910 wareghouse in Oakland, California, was refinished one piece at a time. We salvaged and reused beautiful 1940s windows from Diamond Head military housing that was being demolished in the 1970s. The spacious bedroom and bathroom were designed for wheelchairs.

Claudia's Place is the front right corner unit attached to the owner's main house.

Living Room - Claudia's Place


Floor Plan - Claudia's Place

Twin I and Twin II 
each sleep four
$115 / night, dbl. occup.
+ $20 ea. add'l person 

One of the twin units with courtyard between both units

Living Room  - Twin I / II

The Twins were finished in June, 2001. Their floor plans mirror each other and they share a large lanai between them. Each has a bedroom alcove with a queen bed that can be made private by closing a shade. In the spacious living room are two twin beds. The lavatory is in the large dressing room. The huge beautiful box windows are trimmed with redwood recycled from old Volcano water tanks; the sills are made of Ohia wood cut from trees cleared to build the cottages. Like Claudia's Place they are designed for wheelchair accessibility.

The Upstairs, our new apartment, has two bedrooms (one with a queen bed, one with two twin beds). Each bedroom has a wood-lined dormer looking out into the treetops. In fact there are tree-top bird views from windows on all four sides. Even the bathroom has windows in two directions. It is upstairs in our house; it is where the kids lived until they went away to college, and now you can stay here and contribute to their college fund. You have to go through our living room to get there, but we are very casual about it. You can come and go anytime. The Upstairs has its own lockable door at the top 0f the stairs. It has its own bathroom, with tub/shower and dining/kitchenette, with microwave, toaster, rice cooker, coffeemaker, refrigerator and sink (no stove). It is our only place with two private bedrooms. And like all our places, it has Alan's beautiful finish work.

The Upstairs - Main House
sleeps four ------
$115 for two people, $20 ea. add'l person

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