.lapiņas telpa: a website for interior designer Inese Alma Lapiņa
Inese Alma Lapiņa is an interior designer, and her site is one page that shows how she works and leads to a first meeting. FORGET built it as a static Astro site in Latvian, English and Russian, full of custom pencil drawings: ten hand-drawn scenes sketch themselves as each section scrolls into view, and project photos are painted in over the lines. The drawings are generated once at build time and shipped as plain SVG, so the page runs on a single 8 kB script with no framework.
Numbers speak louder
- 99Desktop
- 89Mobile
Pagespeed metrics
- First Contentful Paint
- 0.4s passes
- Largest Contentful Paint
- 0.7s passes
- Total Blocking Time
- 0ms passes
- Cumulative Layout Shift
- 0.001 passes
- Speed Index
- 0.8s passes
Pencil drawings that draw themselves
As visitors scroll, each section is sketched in pencil in front of them: saved pictures that never quite fit together, a room with the designer's notes, a whole-home plan with what each room is for. Handwritten notes appear as if written there and then, and project photos are painted in over the sketch. Scroll away and back, and the drawing starts again; visitors who prefer less motion see every drawing finished at once.
Key facts
- Static Astro 7 site with no front-end framework: one 8 kB page script, inlined CSS and self-hosted fonts
- Ten custom pencil drawings with 565 strokes, generated once at build time and shipped as SVG that draws itself when its section scrolls into view
- Photos converted to WebP at build time at twice their display size; the site's videos download only when played
- Latvian, English and Russian, with hreflang tags, a sitemap and structured data for the studio, the designer and her six services
- A Decap CMS studio for every text in all three languages, the project photos, the SEO titles and the privacy policy; each publish rebuilds the site on Cloudflare Pages
- FORGET's own cookie banner: Google Analytics 4 loads only after a visitor accepts analytics cookies
