Khand ki Ghar Website design exploration · 2026-06-25

Three ways to look at the same place.

A working farm of 30 acres in central Madhya Pradesh, 120 km from Jabalpur, 10 km from a national park. The property is real. The content is real. The question is how the website should feel when a guest lands on it for the first time.

Strategy & Proposal
The full business case
Six-part proposal, twelve reference-property deep dives, five concept directions. Working draft for the host.
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Khand ki Ghar.
A working farm in central Madhya Pradesh.
Design C
The Quiet Verandah
Minimalist · Photographic · Restrained

Cream paper, one column, generous whitespace. Japanese ryokan meets Indian Earth. The site is a quiet room.

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Issue No. 01
Central India.
A house in the field.
Design D
The Village Voice
Documentary · Magazine · Voice-driven

Long-form magazine spread. Real voices, real faces, real places. The reader is a visitor to a place that already exists.

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Design B
The Woven Cloth
Textile · Bold · Regional identity

Block-printed patterns, terracotta and indigo, warp-and-weft layout. The site feels like cloth draped across the screen.

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Reading notes

Which one to pick?

Each design serves a different guest profile. They are not interchangeable.

  • Quiet Verandah suits premium, international, design-aware travelers. The friend who runs the property is comfortable with restraint.
  • Village Voice suits the documentary-minded, the writer, the photographer, the cultural traveler who wants real encounters. Most aligned with the immersion goal.
  • Woven Cloth suits the audience that wants strong Indian identity, the textile-aware guest, the regional-culture visitor. The boldest brand differentiation.

What the three have in common

  • Indian Earth palette in every design (cream, terracotta, earth brown, forest green).
  • Georgia serif for headings, system-ui for body. No Inter. No Google Fonts.
  • No Tailwind defaults. No emoji in UI. No exclamation marks.
  • Static HTML. No JavaScript framework. Cloudflare Pages-friendly.
  • All three use the same content source (site/content.md).
  • All three place a WhatsApp-first inquire at the end. No online booking.

What is in the content

The full text source is at site/content.md. It covers:

  • Hero and what this is
  • A day in the life
  • Things to do (on the farm, in the village, in the forest, longer programs)
  • Ways to stay and pricing
  • The people (host, kitchen elder, Sukhdev, Prahlad, Pardhan musician, schoolteacher)
  • Five seasons (kharif, post-monsoon, rabi, spring, summer)
  • The story (placeholder for the host's own words)
  • How to come and how to inquire

What comes next

Pick one design. The chosen one becomes the live site. The other two stay in the repo as alternate directions and as inspiration for layout details.

After pick, the photography trip. The site can only be as good as the photographs.