Resopnses by Eva Landaluce, designer, and Edoardo Lunardi, engineer.

Background: House of Honey is a female collective of interior designers founded by Tamara Kaye-Honey over two decades ago, with studios in Los Angeles and Montecito, California. The collective’s work blurs the lines between classic and contemporary and soulful and surprising, designing for how people live rather than only how things look. The site needed to carry House of Honey’s point of view into the browser: an editorial canvas where style meets substance and elegance flirts with eccentricity. Its audience is people commissioning high-end residential and commercial interiors, so the goal was to let visitors feel the studio’s character before any conversation begins.

Design core: The old site was slow and painful to navigate, so the brief was clear—keep the depth and richness the brand deserves while making the whole thing fast and effortless. We nailed that to the fullest. The character of the site lives in its editorial restraint. A warm bone and cream palette; considered typography; and slow, deliberate transitions give every page room to breathe.

Favorite details: We’re most proud of the contact grid and the footer, where small interactions reward attention without ever shouting. Nothing is decorative for its own sake. Every detail earns its place, just as the details do in the studio’s interiors.

Challenges: Moving away from conventional minimalist layouts without losing clarity. The interiors are tactile and rich, so minimalism would have flattened them. We built a bespoke, high-performance framework to hold that depth while keeping the experience fast and fluid.

Alternate paths: Working as freelancers, we owned every decision end to end, from art direction to engineering. We initially envisioned a more elaborate site loader and bolder page transitions, but we eventually trimmed them down while keeping that luxurious touch.

Navigational structures: The navigation is minimal on purpose. It’s meant to feel like moving through a well-composed room, where each step is calm and the path is already clear. There is no clutter—only quiet transitions that invite you deeper.

Technology: The site runs on Next.js with Sanity as the content system, hosted on Vercel, so the team’s words and images stay easy to update while performance stays consistent. Tailwind CSS shapes the design directly in code, keeping everything cohesive. Lenis gives the scrolling its soft, continuous feel, and Mux handles the video so the motion stays smooth and high quality across devices.