Oregon Home | 37 CUSTOM FIT: Capri Architecture Making the DREAM HAPPEN BY JON BELL Photos by David Papazian Capri Architecture melds a one-of-akind home into a tricky spot on the Oregon Coast. There’s a pretty little street on the way to the scenic Ecola State Park in Cannon Beach on the Oregon Coast. For a long time on that street, there sat an empty triangular lot tucked up against a hillside and edged up against a few nearby homes. From surface glances, it didn’t really seem like anyone could build a home on that lot, as nice as it might be. But then Amanda and Dustin Capri, the husband-and-wife team behind Newport-based Capri Architecture, got a call from an excited couple — Kelli Ennis and Steven Dailey — who had purchased the lot and had a vision for it. “Everyone was under the impression it was not buildable because of its triangular shape and the other existing development nearby,” Amanda says. “But they fell in love with it anyway. It’s got a view of Ecola Creek and downtown Cannon Beach and the ocean isn’t far. So we set out on this thread of, ‘Let’s make it happen.’” And make it happen they did. It took some creativity, like adding extra foundation supports and digging the home 12 feet into a hillside, but they pulled it off. Now, with the help of the incredible builders at Caruana Inc.,
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