Aster House — a small hotel

Fourteen rooms run in the dark register: rooms as bookable types, a gallery with a lightbox, and a group form for the enquiries that are not one night.
The businessHotel
They arrive asking"Is there a room on the ninth?"
Switched onRoom types · Live availability · Group enquiries
Needs the planBusiness

A hotel has two kinds of visitor and they want opposite things. One is checking a date. The other is deciding whether the place is any good.

Aster House puts the date check in the furniture — persistent, always to hand — and spends the page itself on the rooms, which are CMS entries linked to bookable room types with real availability. Stay offers are entries too, so a winter rate is a piece of content rather than a code change.

aster-house shown at its home page

It runs dark everywhere except the pages where somebody types their name in, which are light on purpose.

Open this one in the editor

A designer holding a fabric sample up to the light against a wall of drawings in a studio

Every one of these was somebody’s Tuesday afternoon.

Twelve starting points
True of all twelve

You are copying a site, not a wireframe.

Whichever one you pick, it lands in your account with its pages, its brand tokens, its content and every module the design depends on already configured. Nothing is shared with the original — change the prices on day one and no other site moves.

Pages, navigation, footer and 404Colours, typefaces and spacing as tokensBookings, products, forms and content entriesYours to export, or to hand to a client

Change the words.
Keep the machinery.

Or start from an empty page and build it yourself — by hand, or by describing it to an agent.

A working site the same afternoonSwap starting points before you publishCancel and take the site with you