B7 - Sunday, February 6, 1983 - North Shore News

THE DELBROOK
home of Ted and Jeanne
Pennell is a good
example: of an English
Tudor design. Located
at the end of the street
surrounded by forest,
there is privacy as well
as a great view to the
south. On the right Is
the formal dining room.
Below, a vtew of the
spacious living room
with its floor to ceiling
old brick fireplace.

Story and photos
by Ellsworth Dickson

Where does a large house
leave off and a mansion
begin? The English Tudor
style home of Ted and
Jeanne Pennell has 4,500
square feet including the
maid’s quarters. Built about
five years ago in the Upper
Delbrook area with the aid
of David Poskitt, Ted has
designed a spacious and
beautiful house, named
Coppertree Estates.

Entering through the
double front doors, you
arrive in a spacious hallway
with a redwood stairway,
floor to ceiling windows, and
a pewter chandelier.

Turning right, you step
into the living room with its
floor to ceiling old brick fire-
place and open cedar
ceiling. Through the bay
window, you can look to the
south and west at a
panoramic view of the
harbour, downtown, and
Georgia Strait in the
distance.

Being custom designed
and built, there are many
unusual features such as
three gas furnaces and one
electric one. The reason for
this is fuel economy. With
double insulauon and double
glazing. the house retains
heat very well. Each furnace
heats a portion of the house
With this selective heaung,

you are only heating the part
of the house you are in at the
time. For instance, at night,
you only need the bedrooms
warm. Using this method,
Ted has found that his
heating bills are about the
same as a 1,300 sq.ft. home.

Turning left from the
hallway, you enter the
formal dining room = and
beyond that ts the spacious
kitchen with an _ informal
ealing area, a large island
counter with a Jenn-Aire
range, pine cabinets, and
built-in stove.

Through a couple of brick
arches, off the kitchen, is the
family room with a fireplace
and a wood stove.

Downstairs is storage as
well as a maid's quarters that
is the size of a nice apart-
ment with its own appoint-
ments such as fireplace and
patio.

At the top of the
beautifully crafted redwood
staircase is a large landing.
and off that, the three bed-
rooms. Ted and Jeanne’s
home has four baths, the one
off the master bedroom has a
large oval tub, a glassed in
shower room and a bidet.

A unique feature of this
house is the extensive use of
glass. It is an interesting
sight to stand in the master
bedroom at one end of the
house and took right (hrough
the entire house via the glass
walls and out into the forest
on the other side

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