A tiny house on a Mirissa headland — designed to be fully booked.
One bedroom. One pool deck. One sunset. We built the brand, the booking site and the photography direction around the only thing that mattered — the view from the bed.
curb mirissa is a single-suite tiny house perched on a headland above Talalla Bay, fifteen minutes east of the Mirissa surf break. Timber walls, a private plunge pool, a one-person sauna, and a wall of glass opening on the Indian Ocean.
The owners came to us with the keys and a hosting account — and nothing else. No name, no story, no site. Just a quiet property in a crowded category, and a launch date six weeks out.
Fifteen minutes east of the Mirissa surf break, on a headland the maps still call by its village name. The drone goes up at six in the morning, before the haze comes off the bay.
“Mirissa is full of places that look like ours. We needed people to feel something specific — and to book before they kept scrolling.”
Five weeks of work, organised around one decision: the property would be sold on atmosphere, not amenities. Every deliverable — name, mark, photo, page — was tuned to the same warm dusk register.
We named the house curb — short for “curb appeal,” and a quiet nod to the kerb-side stone footing the cabin sits on. The mark is set in Cormorant Italic, then translated into a physical sign carved from the same local hardwood as the deck.
The mark earns its keep in two places: 36 pixels wide on a phone’s status bar, and 36 inches wide on the property’s welcome stone. Both had to feel hand-made.
The site is intentionally short. We resisted the urge to build a brochure — most visitors arrive from Instagram already half-decided. The single job of the page is to turn a held breath into a held date.
They didn’t design us a website. They designed the feeling we wanted guests to walk in with — and then made sure every photo, every word, every booking step carried it through.
I take on a small number of hospitality and product projects each year — brand, site and direction, end-to-end. Quiet, atmospheric work sold on a feeling, not a feature list.