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While the quartz kitchen island isn’t at a lower height, the room’s comfortable layout provides plenty of space for Simerjeet’s wheelchair.

Stained-glass windows and moldings were integrated with new design elements, including custom steel screens, a nod to jalis, intricate stone screens often seen in Indian architecture.

The large deck opens out from the kitchen and leads to the yard—and the lift off the porch allows Simerjeet to use the yard, too.

The kitchen features custom millwork that cleverly conceals the elevator.

“We always want to feel the carpentry in our projects. Our goal here was to show the wood of the structure as much as possible,” says architect Jean-Baptiste Barache.