Marrow Interiors
A boutique residential interior design studio site built on restraint. One typeface, a grid-led layout, and space doing the work that decoration usually does.
Project Details
Testing how far restraint carries a layout
Marrow Interiors is a high-end residential interior design studio concept. The site is built around a single question: how much can you take away before a page stops working.
One typeface. Generous space. A grid that holds across every page rather than being redrawn per section. Projects run through the CMS, so the portfolio grows by adding an item rather than by building a page.
- Photography shown at full size with nothing competing with it
- A portfolio that grows by adding a CMS item rather than building a page
- Spacing and alignment consistent enough that restraint reads as a choice
- A site whose restraint signals the same taste the studio sells
Early exploration
Sketches and wireframes
Restrained design is unforgiving, and the difficulty is structural rather than aesthetic. When there is no decoration to hide behind, every alignment is visible and every inconsistent gap reads as a mistake rather than a choice.
That means spacing cannot be decided section by section. It has to come from a system applied consistently, or the page starts to drift and looks careless rather than calm.
Working through the structure
Project results
Spacing runs on a consistent system rather than per-section decisions, which is what holds the alignment together across a site with this little else in it. A single type family carries the whole hierarchy through size and weight, so the pages stay coherent without a second font doing the differentiating.
Project pages are CMS-driven from one template, so a new project is one collection item and it inherits the layout automatically.
The finished system
