If you long for a cottage on the beach, there is Longs at Lanikai...

Here I am again. Your private browser through beachfront estates in Lanikai, Oahu, reporting you on the best of the best and my personal favorites of all times.

How accommodating I think when I'm being introduced to another property by the incredibly Aloha Trinity Properties team. I remember traveling different places all around the world and sometimes the only reason that I found myself where I were, was because of somebody's experience of it, somebody's spoken or written account about it.

So as I'm standing in the breezy, crispy ocean air in the front yard of the Longs at Lanikai Cottage I can only hope that my brief but profuse encounter with this lovely place would inspire you to spend your Hawaiian vacation right here.

This truly old-styled beach house makes me think of all the charming houses I was lucky to visit while in Rhode Island, or Rockport, Ma. It has that flavor to it. But the pristine turquoise waters drifting in the background, so close from the front yard where I stand, remind me instantaneously that I'm ever luckier now. I'm in Hawaii. I glance through the white Lanai furnishings set up and I can sense the friends & family gatherings here in the warm afternoons. Simple, natural, and neutral comes to mind when I enter the Longs at Lanikai Cottage . The large, spacious, rectangular windows throughout the house invite the outdoors in, so you could never stay too far away from the golden sand beach outside.

I walk barefoot throughout the house, enjoying its cool floors, and explore each area with focus as not to miss its subtle and graceful seaside décor. Shades of blue spread around the house mix along the azures outside. Sunny canary kitchen makes me exclaim out loud the cheesy words: So cute! But adorable it is to the point where I can smell the freshly brewed Kona coffee in the morning when all the Longs guests meet somewhere between the kitchen and the always pleasantly gusty front porch. And then I go into each bedroom and I know you would only have sweet dreams in here. Comfortable furnishings and tropical elements encourage excellent rest among the natural Hawaiian earth elements of bamboo, the pandulus tree and the island's flowers painted on your beddings.

Plants, shells and sea glass pieces that are spread around the house awaken the ingenious urge in you. If you're absolutely certain there is not such possibility for you, then get barefoot in the back yard of the Longs at Lanikai Cottage and soon enough you'd be.

Jumping and dancing, warming your feet deep in the white, fine almost velvety like sand of the Lanikai Beach, half mile long, you will find your longing. Lanikai waters, "heavenly waters" as we call them here, will sooth you and bless you until you'll realize you don't have to long anymore, as you find your peace of paradise at Longs at Lanikai Cottage ... and you can always return ...