Salt House

Salt House is a calm, editorial template for boutique hotels, guesthouses and small stays. The whole site follows one day by the sea: as visitors scroll, the colors move from dawn to noon, dusk and night, and a small sun dial in the corner keeps time.

What’s inside 10 pages: Home, Rooms, Room detail, Experiences, Dining, Journal, Article, Our Story, Book a Stay and a custom 404.

Built for real content Rooms and Journal run on the CMS, with built-in image alt text. Add a room or a story and it appears everywhere automatically.

Details guests will notice

• Day Cycle: background and text colors shift with the time of day as you scroll

• A pinned, horizontally scrolling rooms row on desktop that becomes a swipeable carousel on tablet and phone

• Window shutters that open on hover, or by themselves on touch screens

• Full-screen photo lightbox with keyboard and swipe navigation

• Soft blinds, palm and window shadows that drift across sections

• A small, custom “View room / Explore / Read” cursor (hidden on touch devices)

• Compact navbar on scroll and a full-screen menu

Polished and responsive Carefully designed desktop, tablet and phone layouts, including short laptop screens. Photos always fit the screen, arches keep their shape, and layout shift stays low.

Easy to make your own Every effect is a component with clearly labeled settings. Colors and fonts use shared styles, so you can rebrand in minutes. A buyer guide covers colors and fonts, CMS, component settings, images, links and form setup.

Fonts: Fraunces, Hanken Grotesk and IBM Plex Mono (Google Fonts).