Collingwood, East Vancouver · the rear home
The rear half of a brand-new two-family house: three bedrooms and two and a half baths over three levels, a living room nearly twenty feet long, and a garden of its own.
One house, two homes
Drawn from our measured floor plan. The top floor is the one worth climbing for.
The house that stood here since 1954 came down last year, and the lot was rebuilt as a two-family house — one building, two homes side by side, with a detached garage at the back off the lane. This page is the rear home.
It is the slightly larger of the two inside, and the difference is mostly in the main floor: a living room of 16′1″ by 19′9″, which is a long room by the standards of anything built on a Vancouver lot this size. Bedrooms and laundry sit on the floor above under 8′0″ ceilings, and the stair carries on to a top floor that opens to 11′3″ with its own bath and balcony.
City of Vancouver permit DB-2024-04634, issued 30 June 2025: a 2.5 storey plus crawlspace two-family dwelling with a detached garage at the rear providing two parking spaces, vehicular access from the lane, the entire building sprinklered. The 1954 house was demolished under DB-2024-04893. Builder of record: Belvoir Development Corp. Zoning R1-1.
The other home in this buildingThe main floor
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Nine-foot ceilings, white oak floors, and a single run of space from the front door to the kitchen at the back. The built-in wall carries the fireplace and a recessed screen; the kitchen has a black island with a stone top, brass pendants above it and full-height pale oak behind. A powder room sits off the entry.
The upper floor
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The larger bedroom on this floor has a walk-in of 5′9″ by 6′11″ and its own bathroom with a double vanity and a glass shower. The second bedroom takes the front corner with windows on two walls. A second bathroom has a tub, and the washer and dryer are in a cupboard on the same floor.
The top floor
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The stair keeps going past the bedroom floor to a room of 14′4″ by 11′6″ with its own three-piece bathroom, storage built into the eaves, and a balcony of 8′4″ by 8′9″. The ridge is 11′3″ overhead, which is nearly three feet more than the floor below and makes it feel like a different house.
Outside
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This home has the planted ground at the back — a fenced garden with a lawn, new hedging and the heat pump tucked to one side — and the detached garage sits beyond it at the lane. Two parking spaces serve the building. The photographs were made at dusk on the day of the shoot.
The wide aerials carry a label pointing at the house, because a neighbourhood from 120 metres up all looks alike otherwise. Nothing on this page states which way the house faces or what can be seen from inside it — our floor plan carries no verified north arrow, so we do not make that claim.
The plan
38 photographs and the floor plan below are ours, made on 5 September 2026.
| Room | Size |
|---|---|
| Main floor — 637 sq ft, 9′0″ ceilings | |
| Living room | 16′1″ × 19′9″ |
| Kitchen | 9′8″ × 10′3″ |
| Dining room | 9′8″ × 9′8″ |
| Powder room | 4′10″ × 5′4″ |
| Storage | 3′4″ × 4′7″ |
| Upper floor — 658 sq ft, 8′0″ ceilings | |
| Primary bedroom | 12′9″ × 12′3″ |
| Walk-in closet | 5′9″ × 6′11″ |
| Bathroom | 4′11″ × 10′10″ |
| Bedroom | 12′4″ × 10′9″ |
| Bathroom | 5′7″ × 8′10″ |
| Hall | 10′5″ × 3′1″ |
| Top floor — 290 sq ft, 11′3″ ceilings | |
| Bedroom | 14′4″ × 11′6″ |
| Bathroom | 5′3″ × 8′1″ |
| Balcony | 8′4″ × 8′9″ |
| Outside and unfinished — 515 sq ft | |
| Balcony | 53 sq ft |
| Storage | 96 sq ft |
| Under 1.5 m | 108 sq ft |
| Crawl space | 258 sq ft |
Measured floor area from our own plan. The 1,585 sq ft is the finished living area only — the balcony, storage, under-1.5-metre space and crawl space are listed separately and are not part of it, and the two figures should never be added together.
Every room, at your own pace, in a scan we made on the day. Opens at Matterport in a new tab.
Our measured plan, as delivered. Areas are drawn to give a general indication of the layout; they are not a survey and do not form part of any contract.
Collingwood
This is Collingwood, in the City of Vancouver’s Renfrew-Collingwood planning area. Joyce-Collingwood Station is about 500 metres off, which puts downtown, Metrotown and the airport line all on one transfer. Kingsway runs across the top of the neighbourhood as its shopping street, and the BC Parkway — the greenway that follows the Expo Line — passes a few blocks away.
It is a real city neighbourhood rather than a quiet pocket: Rupert Street is close, and Kingsway is a six-lane arterial. That is the trade for being able to walk to a train.
All distances are straight-line measurements from the property, calculated from City of Vancouver Open Data and OpenStreetMap coordinates. They are not walking distances. School catchments change, and this page makes no catchment claim — confirm current assignments directly with the Vancouver School Board.
5150 Spencer Street, Vancouver, BC V5R 4A3
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