Top, left, the Parker home has an ongoing landscap

ing program with a great varicty of plants

and shrubs. Top, right, is the entrance/solarium with its tropical plants. Above, left, is the
deck and view. Above, right, is the vaulted celling living room with its rock fireplace.

Story and Photos by

Ellsworth Dickson

Like many people, Deep
Cove is one of my favounte
North Shore places As soon
as you turn off the Mount
Seymour Parkway there ts a
subtle yet noticcable change
in the atmosphere

Although you have to
drive through a Uhrivimy
metropolis to reach the
Cove ato sal) has a certain
tranquility that is found in
small B ¢ coastal towns
Phere are barefoot boys
fishing off the pier boats of
all sizes and desemptions
coming and going and even
an occasional heron strutting
along the beach

The bome of Me and Mrs

Peter Parker overlooks the
Cove. Designed by the
Parkers themselves, it is a
West Coast contemporary
with a few untque features
that greatly add to its
character

Lhe most obvious one ts
the solarium in the entrance
way Complete with banana
trees and other cCKote
tropical trees and plants the
solanuum has turned what
could have beea an ordinary
hall anto oa dramatk and
beautiful garden The
gorden ttsclf has no floor
The plants grow in the carth

Phas two bedroom house ts
more or less adulf onented
and has three decks making
Woo opossible to have sun or
shade any time of day The
bright spacious hving room
is enhanced by the tiberal

use of glass and the vaulted
ceiling The efficient “U"
shaped kitchen has a pass
through to the formal dining
room

Phe catra large) master
bedroom has the = ensuite
plumbing and walk tn closet
hidden behind shding glass
mirrors

Phe house also has a laun
dry room and a half base
ment with a workshop Out
the back as a yard which os
mostly a vegetable garden
and supphes much of the
Parker's fiesh food Phere is
also a carport

The whole house as tull of
nice ttle details like a sauna
bath an herb garden rock
fireplace. the fact that every
room Jeads to a sundeck
and sohd oak Cabinetry in
the hitehen

B7 - Sunday, June 19, 1983 - North Shore News