Story and Photos

y ELLSWORTH DICKSON

Today's Feature Home is
located in the picturesque
community of Cypress Park
Estates, which is north of the
Calulfeild area, above the
Upper Levels, in West
Vancouver.

In 1971, Alan and Rory
Stephens bought a 2/3 acre
lot and designed and built
their home. They liked the
Cypress Park area because,
being high up Hollyburn
Mountain, not only is the

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view of Georgia Strait
stunning, the air is clean and
it is a good place to raise
kids.

With the aid of designer
Zoltan Picdl, the house was
planned to “fit" into the
natural terrain of the rocky
hillside lot.

There are five bedrooms,
a library, a study, a family
room, a marble fireplace, a
giant’ sundeck, patio and a
double car port.

With = the southerly ox
posure, the Stephans have

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found they seldom use the
hot water heating in the
daytime, the house naturally
being able to capture and
retain the sun’s heat.

Being a civil engineer by
profession, Alan in cor-
porated some = interesting
ideas such as designing a
very large open living room
with an extra.Jong 24- beam
providing the roof support.

Although the house took
only four months to build,
with the whole family pit-
ching in, as well as some of

the work contracted out,
the landscaping is still going
on, a mammoth project in
itself, with countless
thousands of rocks and
stones making up numerous
rock walls.

A recent change’ was
moving the kitchen to the
western side ofthe house and
installing Italian cabinets, a

‘built-in convection oven and

a neat Thermador Cook ‘n'
Vent counter-top stove
whose vent rises electrically
out of the counter.

Cll - Sunday, November 7, 1982 - North Shore News

LEFT, THE CONTEMPORARY Cypress Park home
of Alan and Rory Stephens. Below leit, the extra-large
living room and sundeck in background. Above, the
newly re-designed kitchen with its “greenhouse” style
window and counter-top stove.

airtight (stove) inserts lack
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Super view of fire

Quicker heat, higher output

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®No expensive chimney cleaning headaches

eNo fast creosote buildup safety problems

Don’t settle for an unat-
tractive, heavy insert which
will require fireplace ad-
ditions and frequent
chimney sweeping = to
prevent dangerous explosive

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now available. You can even add §
it to a Free Heat Machine you [
bought years ago

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