STORY AND PHOTOS BY
ELLSWORTH DICKSON

The Lions Bay home of
Ron and Janice Pratt has the
distinction of being built
twice. The cight inch
diameter fir logs originally
came from the mountains
near Mission, B.C., and
were taken down the Fraser
River, and up Georgia Strait
to Gambier Island where
Janice’s brother Jamie
notched, cut and erected the
logs into a shell of the final
house. Next the logs were
tagged, the house
dismantled, and barged to

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nearby Lions Bay where it
was re-erected and
finished.

This claborate procedure
began about two years -ago
and has recently been
completed with much effort
on the part of Ron and
brother-in-law Jamie (who
owns Errico Construction).

Some of the features of
this house arc; a tropical
cherry wood entrance hall,
hardwood floors in the living
and dining room, a
heatilator fire-place, and a
large family oriented kitchen
open to the family room and
breakfast nook. One very

pleasant room is_ the
solarium which adjoins the
dining room and has that
magnificent Howe Sound
view: -

The lower floor has three
bedrooms, all with a sea
view. The master bedroom
also. has a_ heatilator
fireplace, walk-in closet and
a semi-ensuite bathroom.

The Pratt house was built
with solar heating in mind,
and it works very effectively.
The main floor has log
construction of maximum
insulation. There is a unique
2” thick concrete. floor
separating the first and

second level which retains
the daytime heat to warm
the house at night. The two
heatilator fireplaces are the
main active heat source. In
addition, the solarium is a
passive solar collecting unit
for another heat source.

Unlike some of the ex-
tremely rugged lots of some
Lions Bay homes, the Pratt
house has a one-third acre
grassy landscaped lot with a
vegetable garden.

on informed the News

that the wood for the
fireplaces comes from the
“cut-outs” for the windows
and doors.

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