Nine rooms · Est. 1904

A house, not a hotel.

The tone paints the ground. The photograph is the overlay at 0.16, so the tint is --bg and follows the skin.

Where you will be

You will be met by name.

Copy left, the right half deliberately empty so the photograph has somewhere to be.

Three rooms face the boats

Wake up to a working quay.

Same pattern, mirrored. A copy-position axis, not a second section.

Not only dark

Breakfast moves out here from May.

The same mechanism on a light tone. Dark is the common choice, not the only one.

A pane, not a scrim

Legible without dimming the photograph.

No overlay on the section at all. The pane carries the copy, so the image stays sharp — and it now has vertical padding.

Opaque pane

The product stays sharp.

When the photograph is the thing being sold, do not abstract it — put the copy on solid ground beside it.

One sitting, six nights a week

Scroll this one.

Identical to A, plus attachment: fixed on the overlay. A control, not a section.

Nine rooms, no two alike

A slideshow behind the tint.

The overlay group has no slideshow type, so the gallery goes on the base and the tint on the overlay — as var(--bg), still palette-driven.

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