Warren House Hotel Homepage

Challenge

The work replaced the entry point of an existing WordPress site rather than rebuilding it, and was delivered through a London agency in 2025. Warren House is a country-house hotel and wedding venue in Kingston upon Thames. Its WordPress site worked, but the homepage did not present the hotel the way high-end venue sites do. Rooms were buried below marketing content, and a HubSpot popup the marketing team relied on was not firing. A full redesign had been discussed. The brief was to deliver the homepage and the fixes that mattered now without committing to the wider project.

Approach

Elementor Pro was the existing platform, and building the homepage there meant the hotel's team could keep editing with the tools they knew. The animations were kept subtle and scroll-linked so they add polish without hurting load time on a page that opens with video. Pulling reviews from Google rather than pasting quotes avoids a page that goes stale. HubSpot stayed as the popup and lead tool because the hotel's marketing already ran through it. Fixing the existing popups was cheaper than replacing them.

Solution

In July 2025 I added a blog listing and first post to the existing site and diagnosed the HubSpot popup that was not firing. In September I built a new homepage on Elementor Pro. It has a full-width video hero, subtle scroll animations in the style of high-end hotel sites, and rooms placed first in the page order so the booking path is immediate. Reviews are fetched from Google so social proof stays current without manual updates. A new header and footer are responsive across breakpoints. I also built a Wedding Fair popup that appears after five seconds to promote the event, and fixed a legacy popup whose close button did not work, which had been quietly frustrating visitors.

Results

A 24-page site plan was scoped and quoted, with the wider redesign currently on hold, so this project covers the homepage and supporting fixes rather than a full rebuild. It was a freelance project through a London agency, and the homepage is live at warrenhouse.com. The hotel now has a front page that leads with rooms and reviews, a working popup programme for events like the wedding fair, and a blog it can publish to. The project showed me that a homepage and a few well-chosen fixes can deliver most of the visible benefit of a redesign while the larger decision waits.

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