72 PUNCHMAGAZINE.COM the ground up in 2011 by general contractor Marrone & Marrone, the 6,500-square-foot home belongs to a local couple she’s known for years. “We raised our kids together,” explains Lisa. After accompanying a group of women on a transformative trip to India that included the wife, the couple asked Lisa if she would design the interior spaces of the dream house they were building. “The prime directive was to create an environment where they could recharge and rejuvenate and then go back out and be their best selves in the world,” says Lisa, whose husband and partner, Armin Staprans, also collaborated on the project. “There was also a lot of programming needed to make the house work for different purposes. They finished raising their family there, and it’s also a place {home & design} Perched in Portola Valley, overlooking undulating hills peppered with California oaks, is “Hillside Sanctuary,” a spacious and gracious home with a very local interior designer. For Lisa Staprans, principal founder and creative director of Portola Valley-based Lisa Staprans Designs, it represents so much more than just another completed project. Her work on this home inspired a talk she gave at the INK Conference in Jaipur, India, as well as her book, The Soul of Design, which was published last year. “This house became a catalyst for how you bring soul into a space, which became my foundational way of looking at design moving forward,” recalls Lisa, whose career spans more than three decades. Designed by architect Bob Stoecker of Stoecker + Northway Architects and built from
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