It took $1.6M and 100 tons of stone to revive this ‘60s kit home. For years, architect Brandon Jørgensen and his partner, Katy, had dreamed of moving from California to Hawaii with their children. It took time for the couple to find the right house—they started searching, on and off, in 2016—and that was before the multiyear renovation began. In 2020, a friend alerted them to a historic prefabricated Lindal cedar home for sale in Waimea. Completed in 1968, the post-and-beam house had vaulted ceilings and glass walls that filled the interior with natural light. Whether inside the living room or out on the lanai, its hillside perch offered panoramic views of the Pacific Ocean and three volcanoes: Mauna Kea, Mauna Loa, and Hualālai. Less impressive was the state of the house, which had not been updated since its completion. Thankfully, Brandon had a vision. His firm, atelierjorgensen, is known for precise, clean-lined house designs—he founded it after training under master Japanese archit...