Serein House
A dawn-to-night retreat narrative paced like a single unhurried day.
Challenge
A fictional six-suite forest retreat with booking intent revealed through ritual, place, and privacy.
Cinematic frames, dark botanical fields, time-of-day chapters.
Warm humanist serif paired with narrow utility sans.
The page light temperature changes as the visitor moves through a day.
Humid air, low light, and deliberate silence.
Scene-by-scene experience
The route has a job at every depth.
Dawn
Establish emotional promise.
Edge-to-edge forest horizon and quiet booking cue.
Rituals
Show how a stay feels.
Timed sequence of bath, table, trail, and fire.
Suites
Make rooms comparable.
Editorial cards with honest occupancy and view data.
Field Notes
Build local specificity.
Guide-led stories on a map-like rhythm.
Reserve
Expose availability intent.
Dates, guests, suite preference, and direct enquiry.
Motion record
- trigger
- Scroll progress per day chapter
- duration
- 1.1s
- delay
- 0ms
- easing
- linear for atmosphere; enter easing for content
- transform
- color interpolation, scale 1.04→1, opacity
- scroll
- Continuous daylight variable with snapped content chapters
- desktop
- Ambient change spans viewport
- mobile
- Static chapter colors; shorter reveals
- reducedMotion
- No interpolation; discrete palette changes
Responsive behavior
Designed across the actual range.
Mobile prioritizes readable itinerary cards and tap targets; tablet balances image/text; desktop uses broad cinematic media; ultrawide media is focal-point constrained.
Implementation: Next.js, Motion, CSS color variables; video only after licensed footage exists.