Studio Ember

Studio Ember is a Squarespace 7.1 template by The Creative Motif, sold through the SquareKicker template store, built for interior designers and home staging studios that lead with mood. The demo is a home staging and interior design studio: a full-bleed hero, a curated-spaces introduction, a recent projects strip, a design-and-philosophy block, a meet-the-founder section and a contact prompt, with Services, Projects, Blog, About and Contact pages and an FAQ anchored on the contact page. The old listing had the audience right; it undercounted the pages and left out the blog.

What you get

• Six page layouts: Home, Services, Projects (portfolio), Blog, About and Contact, on Squarespace 7.1 with Fluid Engine
• Twenty-seven SquareKicker sections including hero, portfolio, services, people, reviews, information, gallery, FAQ, contact and footer
• A projects page for before-and-after work and a services page laid out for design, staging and consultancy
• A brown, black, grey and neutral palette that changes in the Squarespace style editor
• SquareKicker animations: fixed scrolling, sticky sections, horizontal scrolling and sticky split layouts
• A one-off purchase with a free 30-day SquareKicker extension trial

Who it suits

Interior designers, home stagers, small architecture and interiors studios, and property stylists who have strong photography and want a moody, editorial look rather than a bright one. The blog is there for the search traffic an interiors practice depends on, and the projects page is the case study format estate agents and developers ask to see.

Honest limits

The design lives or dies on photography: without a proper portfolio of finished rooms it will look empty. There is no shop, so a studio that also sells homewares adds Squarespace commerce. Individual project pages are built by duplicating the Projects layout rather than from a portfolio collection, which is fine at ten projects and tedious at fifty. There is no scheduling for consultations; embed Acuity or Calendly. The sticky and horizontal scrolling effects are SquareKicker features that stay in place after the 30-day trial but need a subscription to keep editing.

How it is delivered

SquareKicker templates install through the SquareKicker Template Engine onto a new or existing Squarespace 7.1 site: connect the free SquareKicker extension, pick the template and it installs in a few clicks, with the choice of keeping your existing site styles or replacing them with the template's. There is no duplicate site to copy from. The purchase is one-off and includes a 30-day SquareKicker extension trial; you need a Squarespace Core plan or higher to publish, and SquareKicker template buyers get 10 per cent off a Squarespace plan.

Related guide: compare it with the alternatives in our roundup of the best Squarespace templates for interior designers, or browse the Squarespace templates hub.