W
hen Jan Capasso and her husband
Paul were shopping for a builder
to replace a small ranch on a great
Hyannis Harbor waterfront lot they had
purchased, they looked no further than someone
quite familiar to them and whom they could trust—
the husband of one of Jan’s friends from when she
was a young teenager.
Jan’s husband is a builder himself in the Boston
area and considered building the home himself, but
the expense of bringing his own crew down to Hyannis
seemed too much of a drain on their resources for his
own house, so the couple turned to Rob Warren of Sand
Dollar Customs of South Yarmouth.
While the home is built within the same modest
footprint of the previous ranch, the second story and
some custom touches that would not be regularly
considered made the house perfect for Jan and Paul.
Paul had two requests: A deep water dock so he
could have a place for his boats and an extended height
garage so he could one day hoist his Boston Whaler
above the car for safe and sound winter storage.
The rest was up to Jan.
She wanted something a little more modern than
their traditional home in Weston, but still would fit
into the neighborhood’s shingle-style look.
The first hurdle was to address the flood plain
issue. Luckily, after many meetings over the course
of the year, they were able to build eight feet above,
instead of 12, the latter of which would have required
them to somehow bring the roof down four feet to
what they ideally wanted.
Builder: Sand Dollar Customs
Architect: ERT Architects
Landscaping: McNamara Brothers
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