Kiln & Clay — Minimal Pottery_studio Home Page for Divi 5

The layout opens with a hero that layers a warm sand section (#efe6d8) behind a full-bleed Pexels photograph and floats a cream content block (#faf5ec) over it with 60 px of padding on all sides, contracting to 20 px on phones. Inside that block, an uppercase Work Sans eyebrow at 16 px sets the location before the DM Serif Display H1 "Pots made by hand, and by you." arrives at 56 px, scaling down to 44 px on tablet and 34 px on phone. The primary button below it fills near-black (#2b2622) with cream text and carries a persistent terracotta (#a8481f) 2 px solid border that swaps fill and text on hover without softening. Every card, column, group, and button uses 0 px border-radius throughout the entire page, a deliberate choice that echoes the angular quality of thrown ceramics and sets the layout apart from any rounded-corner studio template.

The second section introduces three service pillars in equal 1/3 columns, each framed by a 2 px near-black border on a cream background. A Font Awesome icon sits in a terracotta-filled square at the top of each card (graduation cap for Classes, coffee cup for The Shop, home for Studio Membership), followed by an 18 px DM Serif Display card title and a short Work Sans description in warm taupe (#6a5d51). A 3 px terracotta divider runs above the section label to mark the transition from the hero. On tablet the three columns wrap to a 2+1 arrangement; on phone they collapse to full-width stacks with padding that steps down automatically.

The middle third is built around an asymmetric header row (16/24 wide for the heading, 8/24 narrow for a pull-quote and inline link) followed by two rows of offering cards across four disciplines. The cards vary deliberately in background colour: the Handbuilding card fills solid terracotta with white text, the Date night card fills near-black with sand text, and the remaining two use cream. The Wheel throwing card opens with a 16:9 Pexels photograph (object-fit: cover) before its DM Serif Display H3 and descriptive body copy. A native Divi 5 Before/After Image module in the next section slides between pale unglazed ceramics and teal-glazed finished pieces, while a step list beside it (Raw, Glazed) uses top-only 3 px borders instead of icon-based timeline dots, keeping the editorial tone spare and process-focused.

The page closes with a testimonial section presenting three attributed quotes across a two-row grid, each card bordered in 2 px near-black with a 56 px square portrait (1:1 ratio, object-fit: cover). A final CTA section uses a full-bleed background photograph with a left-aligned panel capped at 520 px wide. Its button style mirrors the hero button exactly, so the two primary calls to action read as a matched pair across the full length of the page.