Property News · July 10, 2016

Coastal drift: secrets of an Oregon beach retreat


How Ryan Finley swapped a high flying tech career for family life in a high-tech Oregon beachhouse On a stormy night, when the wind’s whipping the Oregon coast at 100mph, you can hear the glass walls flex in Ryan Finley’s house. “I love the feeling that you’re in this envelope of protection with a tempest going on outside,” he says.There’s a magical feel in the air. This northerly part of the West Coast has less sunshine and more unpredictable weather than California does. It’s about bald eagles and wild elk here, not surfers or bodybuilders. This is where the opening scene in The Goonies is shot, where Jacob chats up Bella in Twilight. Just the spot for Finley’s fairytale glass box of a house to rise out of the edge of a Sitka spruce forest floor, just south of Cannon Beach. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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