Hospitality · Concept build

Cedarbrook Inn

Cedarbrook Inn is a fictional boutique inn business in Phoenicia, NY, built as a complete, working website concept by MantelMarketing. Click through every page below, switch between desktop and mobile, and see what a finished site feels like before you start yours.

Palette
Dark ground, one decisive accent
Type
a supple text serif with a literary, magazine-feature temper
Pages
5Home, Rooms, Gallery, About, Contact

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Inside this build

Every page here is designed, written, and arranged the way a real boutique inn site should be. No placeholders, no lorem ipsum. Here’s what each one carries:

Home
a full-screen opening · story rows that alternate image and text · one customer quote, full width · straight answers to common questions · a closing ask
Rooms
a full-screen opening · the offering, laid out plainly · hours, service area, and credentials · a closing ask
Gallery
a full-screen opening · a photo series · a closing ask
About
a full-screen opening · customers in their own words · hours, service area, and credentials · a closing ask
Contact
a full-screen opening · a working contact layout · straight answers to common questions

Why it looks this way

Layout
The homepage opens like a book cover: the photograph and one line at wordmark scale, nothing else competing. The details wait politely below the fold.
Type & color
The typography is a supple text serif with a literary, magazine-feature temper, on a dark ground with a single decisive accent. No gradient on every section, no five colors competing for attention. Small businesses win trust with clarity, and every choice on this build works toward that.
Not a template
The same brief in a different industry, or the same industry with a different personality, comes out looking like a different studio built it. Compare Cedarbrook Inn with the other hospitality build below to see exactly that.

What a hospitality site has to get right

Booking widgets that ruin the mood

A beautiful room photo, then a clunky third-party widget, and the guest loses the feeling right when it's time to book. We make booking feel like part of the room.

No sense of place

Most sites just list the rooms. Guests book the place that lets them feel the morning light and the bakery down the street before they've even arrived.

Curious how your current site handles these? Run the free hospitality site audit. It checks the exact things above, in about a minute.

Yours would be board nineteen.

Same process, your real business: designed, written, and live for one flat monthly price. No project fees.

Not sure which direction fits you? Try the style playground.