Accessible roof garden off main entrance.  Features outdoor patio and plantings with sedums, grasses, salal, creeping thyme, and decorative shrubs/ trees/ roses.

Covered entry with garage and patio/ visitor parking.  Cistern located under.  Patio/ visitor parking area surrounded by non native garden strips featuring 2 dozen different roses, heavenly bamboo, decorative grasses, and ornamental trees.  Decorative treatment in patio area provides limited surface drainage and limits cracking of concrete finish over structural fill.  Concrete walls (now covered with vegetation) provide durable support for vegetation and feature wrought iron gates.

Exterior access via recycled industrial steel stairs to sunken native courtyard with fountain, with access to home office, each floor level, and pottery studio at the lowest level.

Main entry with views out to roof garden and lake.  Roof features recycled glulam beams/ fir decking and heated concrete stained floors.

Salvaged fir and glulam beams, with dimable halogen cable lights.  Stained concrete radiant heated floor.  Large glazed windows without mullions to maximize view and solar gain.

Winter garden room with wall fountain and glazed exterior/ interior doors for multi-function use and large get togethers. 

View from roof deck under 5' deep roof overhangs.  Upper roof drained via copper rain chains which enter the roof garden drainage system for delayed runoff.  Roof deck also provides easy access to upper roof, heat pump, and solar hot water collectors.

Native riparian area along shoreline featuring salal, ocean spray, mature fir, cedar, arbutus, maple, and wild cherry.

Cantilevered decks feature angled fir timber columns, stained to match adjacent angled arbutus trees.  Angled columns and cantilevered balconies also allow maximum use without disturbance over riparian zone.

View down to native riparian area and dock.

Direction arrow composed of clear and stained exposed aggregate concrete floor, inset with the owner's collection of 'thunder egg' agates, petrified wood, natural copper nuggets, and gold leaf.   Copper was considered a symbol of wealth and status by many first nations on the west coast such as the Haida. 

Decorative light fixture below pyramid skylight in interior courtyard/ winter garden room.

4 storey open riser interior stairway that acts as a 'thermal chimney' for natural ventilation.  Treads made from recycled glulam timbers from the former Global Connections Cafe on Front Street, Nanaimo.  Corridors feature fir door storage closets.