A portfolio where rooms replace categories

Four content types became four destinations: video in the living room, writing in the bedroom, photography in the back garden, and visual art in the attic studio. The remaining rooms support movement and discovery rather than another category. The floor plan is both the content taxonomy and the site map.

New work is added by the owner, not by me. She signs into Sanity, fills a form — title, media, category — and the piece appears in the right room. No code, no rebuild, no deploy on my side. This is how the site runs today.

The design job wasn’t only the illustration — it was making the editing model plain enough that a non-technical owner keeps a bespoke, illustrated site alive on her own.

The portfolio is experienced from a viewpoint inside each room. Visitors move by clicking doorways, stairs and objects, so crossing the house—not choosing from a conventional menu—is the primary navigation. The room-to-room sequence makes the site feel like a place to enter and explore rather than a set of pages.

The creator wanted the intimacy of early personal blogs: a digital home that felt inhabited and rewarded curiosity. Day/night states, ambient sound, small object reactions and the kitchen game are optional layers of that idea. The game turns the kitchen into an activity rather than only a container for content; visitors can always return directly to the room.