88 PUNCHMAGAZINE.COM {home & design} we used in the kitchen. Later, I pulled up an image of Yosemite’s Bridal Veil Falls taken in the morning light and realized the stone spoke to them because Yosemite is their favorite place on earth.” Adding light was integral to the remodel and because they couldn’t raise the ceiling, Janet and her team installed several skylights. “We even put skylights on the covered porch so that light from the outside would stream into the kitchen,” she reveals. “We also implemented human-centric lighting that replicates what the sun does and helps with productivity in the morning and winding down at night.” Janet also utilized biomimicry in the primary bath: “The tile in the shower looks like rain falling down a solid surface even when it’s not wet.” The family’s gathering space is a sunken living room with white carpeting, requested by the client as an homage to her childhood. Janet was all for it because of the well-being implications behind it. “Most people like a dark floor because it grounds us and tells us where we exist between the earth and the sky,” she expands. “What white flooring does is allow the objects in a room to float. We left a large space in the center of the room for the family to gather and create—it’s a space to enjoy books, puzzles and music.” To create an innate sense of place in a space, Janet also
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