Eurohouse Construction

Eurohouse Construction West Vancouver's award-winning luxury home builder & general contractor — custom homes, renovations & insurance restoration across the North Shore.

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The most expensive decision on this elevation is one almost nobody notices.Look at the first photo, where the roof meets...
09/23/2026

The most expensive decision on this elevation is one almost nobody notices.

Look at the first photo, where the roof meets the wall. That curve is a bell cast eave. The roof plane flattens as it reaches the edge instead of running straight into the gutter. It throws water further off the wall, and it softens the whole roofline.

It also means the framing, the sheathing, the underlayment and the metal all have to be built to a curve rather than a plane. By hand. At height.

Same story everywhere else on the house. The quoins at the corners are real cast stone units, set course by course, not trim glued onto a flat wall. The arch heads carry cut keystones. The balustrades are individual turned units, each one levelled, because a balustrade out by a hair reads as drunk from thirty feet away.

None of it is decoration in the way people assume. It is a stack of small, unforgiving tolerances across an elevation with nowhere to hide.

Built in West Vancouver. Not Italy, not California.

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A window can look beautiful in a showroom and still be the wrong window for the house.People choose on what they can see...
09/18/2026

A window can look beautiful in a showroom and still be the wrong window for the house.

People choose on what they can see. Frame colour, handle, big glass, slim sightlines. All of that matters. The part you cannot see matters more.

Aluminium gives you slim profiles and strong frames for large openings, which is why it suits contemporary homes. But aluminium conducts heat. Without a properly designed thermal break and the right glazing, two windows that look nearly identical from the street will perform completely differently through a wet coastal winter.

Hardware is the other half. On a large, heavy unit the hinges, rollers and locks decide whether the door still seals and still lines up in year eight.

A premium looking frame with weak hardware is still a weak window.

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If you have ever built or renovated, you know the worst part is not the work. It is getting caught in the middle.The des...
09/10/2026

If you have ever built or renovated, you know the worst part is not the work. It is getting caught in the middle.

The designer points at the builder, the builder points at the drawings, and you are the one paying for the argument while the budget creeps and the timeline slips.

That is exactly why we work design-build. One team owns the whole thing, from the first sketch to the final walkthrough, with one point of responsibility and a fixed price set before the first wall goes up. When something needs solving, nobody is pointing fingers. The people responsible just solve it.

We built the company this way so the person who hired us never has to referee their own renovation.

Thinking about a build or a reno? Send us a message and we will walk you through how it works.

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People ask which part of Europe this house is in. It is in West Vancouver.We completed it in 2019. Cast stone facade. A ...
09/08/2026

People ask which part of Europe this house is in. It is in West Vancouver.

We completed it in 2019. Cast stone facade. A steep hipped roof with a bell cast curve at the eave. Arched openings with cut keystones, and stone balustrades on every balcony.

Almost nothing gets built like this on the North Shore now. The market wants flat roofs and big glass, and most weeks that is what we build too. Contemporary is forgiving, because a clean line hides a lot. Classical proportion hides nothing.

First of three posts on this house. Next one is the stonework.

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If you are anywhere near Lions Bay this long weekend, the park is open.It reopened to the community on Canada Day. A cov...
09/05/2026

If you are anywhere near Lions Bay this long weekend, the park is open.

It reopened to the community on Canada Day. A covered steel-framed pavilion and a new washroom building on the Howe Sound shoreline, commissioned wildlife murals, a new playground, accessible pathways, terraced planting, and rebuilt granite stairs down to the water.

Building at the edge of the ocean changes every decision. Salt air is hard on a structure, so the materials were chosen for decades rather than seasons: reinforced block, structural steel, granite, timber-lined soffits, and services specified for coastal exposure.

And because a whole community uses it, the public realm sets the standard. Stable terracing, sound footings, finishes that stay safe long after we have packed up.

Designed by Nick Bray Architecture. Go and use it.

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Does a concrete house cost more than wood frame? Yes. Less than most people expect, and here is what the difference buys...
09/04/2026

Does a concrete house cost more than wood frame? Yes. Less than most people expect, and here is what the difference buys.

Fire: walls rated for four hours instead of roughly one. Water: a burst pipe means new finishes, not new framing. Winter: a structure that does not shrink, twist or crack after the drywall goes on. Sound: Marine Drive disappears. Energy: continuous insulation makes Step Code targets straightforward.

At the size of home we build in West Vancouver, the premium is smaller than the finishes budget most owners never question. We did not arrive at this by preference. We arrived at it by rebuilding what fails.

Weighing frame against concrete? We build both and will compare them honestly.

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A 1946 Vancouver Sun classified page came across the desk this week.Building lots inside the City of Vancouver. $250 nea...
09/02/2026

A 1946 Vancouver Sun classified page came across the desk this week.

Building lots inside the City of Vancouver. $250 near Renfrew. $375 near 45th and Manitoba. $1,650 for a corner lot near 52nd and Granville.

Minimum wage that year was about 35 cents an hour. A labourer could buy a serviced city lot with four to six months of gross pay. That same corner is roughly $3M today.

In 1946 land was cheap and the house was the expensive part. Today it is inverted. Land is most of the finished value from Vancouver to Whistler, and the construction budget gets squeezed to make anything work on paper.

The ad said it best. "Such lots are scarce."

Some things do not change.

Some of the work we're proudest of isn't a private home at all.This is the waterfront community park in Lions Bay — buil...
05/29/2026

Some of the work we're proudest of isn't a private home at all.

This is the waterfront community park in Lions Bay — built with architect Nick Bray — and it's a space the whole town gets to use. Building right at the edge of the ocean changes every decision. Salt air is hard on a structure, so everything was chosen to last decades, not seasons: marine-grade coated steel columns, natural granite retaining walls and steps, and cladding that can take the coast year after year.

And because it's a public space, safety comes first — stable terracing, solid footings, and finishes that stay safe long after we've packed up and gone.

Public work keeps you honest, and it makes us better builders everywhere else, too. The same discipline carries straight back into the custom homes and restorations we do across the North Shore.

Next time you're in Lions Bay, go have a look — it's built to be enjoyed.

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