Erahouse is a historic home restoration website template for practices that repair old buildings and help owners decide what to preserve. It gives timber windows, traditional masonry, plaster, period joinery and whole-house planning their own detailed introductions, supported by illustrative house studies and practical preparation guides. A homeowner can understand the work, gather useful observations and arrive at a first conversation with a clearer brief.

The design draws on architectural records and the materials of New England houses. Deep green surfaces, warm paper tones and expressive serif headings sit alongside large photographs, annotated elevations, sash details and room diagrams. The pages move between close material studies, broad house views, comparisons and compact working records, giving the practice a recognizable identity throughout a substantial site.

An interactive house explorer connects visible details with the relevant craft, while a searchable field-note collection helps owners find guidance. The property brief brings location, building period, repair priorities, available records and contact details into a guided review. The complete frontend demonstration is included; receiving real briefs requires a buyer-connected service, and receipt remains separate from agreeing on a visit or work.

Explain the work before the first visit

The craft pages give each service room to be understood. Window repair includes an annotated sash and useful observations. Masonry introduces material junctions and sample decisions. Plaster and joinery show how surviving details inform a scope, while exterior and whole-house pages connect individual repairs with access, sequencing and future care.

3 illustrative house studies show different starting points: a College Hill house, an Elmwood two-family and a modest Fox Point cottage. Each develops its own priorities, documentary evidence and planning questions. Workshop and approach pages connect that work with the tools, samples and records behind it.

Homeowner guides cover house eras, repair-or-replace decisions, project phases, living through the work, house history and seasonal observations. These pages offer useful material a restoration practice can adapt to its own services, helping prospective clients prepare without presenting the website as a building assessment.

What is included

• 26 HTML pages, including 22 substantive service, house-study, practice and homeowner-resource destinations, plus property brief, contact, privacy and custom error pages.
• A ready-made website and self-contained editable HTML, CSS and vanilla JavaScript source.
• 3 color schemes: Verdigris, Brick & Lime and Slate & Brass, with Light, Dark and Auto appearance.
• 8 original AI-generated photographs, each supplied in 3 responsive WebP sizes with editable paths and alternative text.
• 6 editable architectural SVG illustrations, a house identity mark and matching favicon.
• Locally hosted Source Serif 4 and IBM Plex Sans fonts with their original licenses.
• A responsive buyer guide covering content, branding, optional sections, images, local tools and live receiving.

Features

• A house explorer with 4 material areas, illustrated notes and contextual repair links.
• Searchable field notes with useful results, an empty state and a reset action.
• A 4-stage property brief with dependent observations, validation, editable review and meaningful received, rejected, unavailable and uncertain outcomes.
• Contextual service and house-study links that carry relevant choices into the brief.
• Bounded retries that retain the same request identity when receipt is uncertain.
• Grouped navigation, expandable questions and print styles that reveal all substantive house-explorer notes.
• Separate preview Options for exploring schemes while keeping marketplace controls outside the production site.

Accessibility in everyday use

Semantic landmarks, ordered headings, a skip link, descriptive image alternatives and named form fields establish a clear reading structure. Keyboard users can navigate menus, change appearance, explore house details, search resources and complete the brief. Validation reveals the affected step and focuses the field that needs attention; result and search changes provide status feedback.

Visible focus treatment, reduced-motion behavior and readable light and dark appearances support the same content and controls. Wide comparison tables use named keyboard-scrollable regions. Without JavaScript, navigation disclosures, questions and the house-explorer notes remain available, and the brief explains its fallback.

Adapt the practice, keep the useful structure

Editable business data supplies identity, service labels, locations and intake choices. Page metadata and HTML fragments hold the editorial voice, while shared partials keep navigation, footer and illustrations consistent. Explicit media entries let replacement photographs use their own filenames, dimensions and alternative text, and semantic color roles make scheme changes coherent.

The source includes readable and minified production styles and scripts, local build tools, validation and browser checks. The guide explains how to remove or reorder optional content while preserving connected controls and useful links. A buyer can develop a distinct restoration practice site from a complete foundation of craft explanations, house records and owner preparation.