THE RICHARDSON PROJECT

Welcome to Our Home – Part 2

Last week, we showed you around the main house and the ohana. This week, we’re going to show you around the property a bit more.

We live on 3 acres. About half is “landscaped” (but very overgrown), and the other half is untouched forest.

Showing the property is actually quite difficult because the vegetation is so thick. But here are some shots from around the yard.

This is our street. It’s a long, quiet street that the kids can play on. Our property is on the left. You can see the rock wall was slowly being swallowed up by the surrounding plants.
This is the pathway to the main house. It’s about 100 ft from the cars to the house. Which is why this cart has been a lifesaver.
You can’t see it well here, but this is below a huge Kukui tree. The previous homeowner was putting all yard clippings here for their compost pile. The plan is to clear this all out and put a rope swing underneath.
This is actually down below, looking up towards the pool and cabana.
If you follow that little pathway and go through the blue gait in the background, you’ll make it to our street.
The house is about 50 ft away, but you can barely see the roofline.
This is an old, dilapidated green house that is getting swallowed up by the surrounding plants. We will soon tear this down and either build anew or put garden boxes in its place.
This video gives the best overview of the property. Somewhere off in the distance, behind all those trees, is the ocean. When we moved in, we thought we would never see a sunset from here. But all that was about to change…

The Cleanup

We’ve spent the last few months “thinning”. The property was just too overgrown. At times our efforts have felt futile because stuff grows back so quickly here. It’s a bit like Jumanji. But we are slowly making progress and making the property easier to maintain, and hopefully more beautiful.

One of the many trailers we filled up with “green waste”. This is a 30 yarder!

There is so much biodiversity on the property, but you couldn’t see it when we first got here. For the past few months, we’ve slowly been “reclaiming” a lot of the property and we can now see just how diverse this property really is.

Once the thinning is complete, then it’s time for the fun part: actually “designing” our landscape. You can grow just about anything over here, and we plan on taking full advantage of that luxury.

‘Til next week!

– The Richardsons

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