Accessibly Chic
Interiors

Project Description

Accessibly Chic Interiors, LLC is a Washington, DC residential decorating and design practice founded by Bathsheba Philpott. The studio takes on full-home and single-room design, room refreshes and restyling, decluttering and styling, space planning and furniture layout, sourcing, and color and design consultation — all under its own promise: Beautifully Designed. Thoughtfully Lived.

GrayWorks designed and built a dark, editorial portfolio site that treats the studio's work as a gallery in which finished rooms glow. Five portfolio projects — DC Michigan Park, DC Shaw, Baltimore, Laurel, and Tampa — each get their own chapter page, with before/after sliders on the rooms that have a true matching viewpoint and an accessible, keyboard-navigable lightbox across every photo. An AVIF and WebP image pipeline generates multiple widths and inline placeholders from the client's own originals, so those rooms load fast on any connection.

Behind the site sits a custom Next.js and SQLite content management system with a role-scoped admin, letting the studio edit pages, projects, and media without touching code. A spam-hardened contact form routes enquiries to a stored inbox and to SendGrid-delivered mail on a DKIM/SPF/DMARC-aligned domain, while a contrast, focus, and touch-target audit across desktop and mobile returned zero issues, with reduced-motion support throughout. The whole thing ships as a containerized deployment behind a TLS reverse proxy, covered by 41 Playwright tests.