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Velar Luxury Real Estate

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Create cinematic landing pages for luxury real estate.

by nexu-io84.9k stars on nexu-io/open-design
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Updated Aug 10, 2026
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What Velar Luxury Real Estate does

The Velar Luxury Real Estate skill provides a comprehensive solution for developers and designers looking to create a high-end, cinematic landing page specifically tailored for luxury real estate or architecture. This skill comes with a complete reference implementation, example.html, which serves as a starting point. Users are encouraged to copy this file and modify the text and data while adhering strictly to the established design and animation choreography. The skill locks in essential visual elements such as colors, fonts, and animations to ensure a cohesive and polished final product.

This skill emphasizes a unique scroll-driven experience that includes a preloader with a typewriter effect, an animated house image that rises and scales as the user scrolls, and a gallery that expands on hover. The design is meticulously crafted to engage visitors, making it ideal for showcasing luxury properties or architectural brands. The implementation details are precise, with locked constants and specific animation timings that must be followed to maintain the intended user experience.

Developers can also port the design to a React environment using TypeScript and Tailwind CSS if requested, ensuring that the original design aesthetics are preserved. The skill is particularly useful for real estate agencies, architects, and anyone in the luxury market who wants to create a visually stunning online presence without starting from scratch.

Overall, the Velar skill is a valuable resource for those in the luxury real estate sector, providing a solid foundation for creating engaging and visually appealing landing pages that capture the essence of high-end properties.

When to use it

Use this skill when you need to develop a luxury real estate or architecture landing page with specific animations and design elements.

When not to use it

This skill is not suitable for projects that require a custom visual language or where the design elements need to be significantly altered.

What you can build with it

Developing a Luxury Real Estate Site

Use this skill to quickly set up a landing page for a luxury real estate listing, ensuring a high-quality presentation with minimal effort.

Creating an Architectural Portfolio

Leverage the cinematic effects to showcase architectural designs and projects effectively, appealing to potential clients.

Building a Brand Site for a Real Estate Agency

Utilize the skill to establish an online presence for a real estate agency, highlighting luxury properties with engaging visuals.

How to install Velar Luxury Real Estate

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1. Install with the skills CLI

npx skills add nexu-io/open-design/velar-luxury-real-estate --agent claude-code

2. Or install it manually

Download the skill folder and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/ for all projects, or .claude/skills/ to scope it to one repo. Restart Claude Code so it picks up the new skill.

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Written by nexu-io

Velar. — Luxury Real Estate Landing Page

Produce a single-page, cinematic luxury real-estate landing page. A complete, rendered reference implementation ships beside this skill at example.htmlstart from it. Copy example.html, then adjust copy and data; do not rewrite the choreography or invent a new visual language. The seed already encodes the exact tokens, preloader typewriter, scroll-driven house animation, sticky dark stats band, count-up, and hover-expand gallery described below.

This is the authoritative build brief. Follow it exactly — the named colors, fonts, timings, image URLs, and the scroll-math are locked.

Inlined image (critical): example.html ships the building/house silhouette (HOUSE_IMG, originally res.cloudinary.com/.../building_bzziky.png) as an inlined data:image/webp;base64,… URI — keep it exactly as-is. The 5 cloudfront gallery .mp4 videos and the BG_IMG higgs.ai hero background stay as remote URLs (large stable CDNs); the cloudinary host is the one to inline because it is the load-bearing, repeatedly-scaled centerpiece asset.

Stack

  • Default output: a single self-contained HTML file (the example.html seed) using vanilla CSS + JS. It already includes everything inline.
  • If the user explicitly asks for the React project: port the seed faithfully to React 18 + TypeScript + Vite + Tailwind CSS with only lucide-react for icons (the hamburger→X). All animation logic lives in a single src/App.tsx using useState, useEffect, useRef, useCallback, and IntersectionObserver. No other libraries. Do not change the design while porting.

Global setup — locked

  • Page background #f5f0ea (warm off-white). Body wrapper overflow-x: clip.
  • Fonts via @import in an inline <style>: Syne (400, 700, 800, 900) + Inter (300, 400, 500, 600) from Google Fonts.
  • Constants: GRASS_GREEN = '#213138' (preloader bg + default logo color), FULL_TEXT = 'Velar.', HOUSE_IMG (inlined data URI in the seed), BG_IMG (higgs.ai hero bg), and the 5 cloudfront gallery videos (in order — keep them).

Section 1 — Preloader / intro overlay

Fixed full-viewport overlay (z-index:100, bg #213138, centered flex). Typewriter of Velar. in Syne 2.6rem, white, letter-spacing:-0.02em; letters weight 700 except . weight 900. Blinking white cursor (3px × 1.1em rounded bar, blink 0.7s step-end infinite, opacity 0↔1) follows the last typed letter.

Timings (setTimeout): CHAR_INTERVAL=140ms, TYPE_START=600ms. Reveal letter i at TYPE_START + i*CHAR_INTERVAL. LIFT_AT = TYPE_START + 6*CHAR_INTERVAL + 700. Hide cursor at LIFT_AT-150. At LIFT_AT, lift overlay translateY(-100%) with transform 1.5s cubic-bezier(0.45,0,0.15,1) AND trigger the house rise. At LIFT_AT+1300, fade in hero text (opacity 0→1, translateY(-28px)→0, 0.7s cubic-bezier(0.22,1,0.36,1) 0.1s). At LIFT_AT+2100, set liftDone, disable overlay transition (parked off-screen), and hand house control to the scroll handler.

Section 2 — Fixed nav

Fixed top nav z-50, padding px-6 md:px-10 lg:px-16, py-5 md:py-6, flex justify-between. Left: Velar. in Syne text-xl, weight 700 letters / 900 dot, color = navColor. Right: hamburger — two stacked 28px×1px lines, top shrinks to w-5 on hover; when open swaps to Lucide X (size 24).

Scroll behavior: if any dark section (Section 5 dark band + Section 6 gallery) overlaps the viewport top (rect.top <= 0 && rect.bottom > 0), navColor = '#ffffff', else '#213138'. Transition color 0.35s ease.

Mobile menu: full-screen #f5f0ea overlay (z-40), centered, 4 stacked links — Residences, Story, Listings, Inquire — Syne text-4xl, font-light, tracking-widest, uppercase, black, hover text-gray-500. Click closes.

Section 3 — Hero

<section> position:relative; min-height:100vh; overflow:visible, BG_IMG as cover/center background. Hero text block z-index:10, hidden initially, fades+slides in per preloader timing.

  • Top row .hero-heading-top (px-6 md:px-10 lg:px-16, flex items-end justify-between, margin-bottom:-0.04em): left LIVE IN (.hero-own-the, Syne 800, uppercase, black, letter-spacing:-0.03em, line-height:1); right desktop-only .hero-subtitle-desktop (Syne 700, clamp(10px,0.95vw,14px), max-width 300, opacity 0.7, right-aligned): "Stately homes built with vision, / scope, and architectural finesse."
  • Headline row (wrapped in overflow:hidden): IRREPLACEABLE (.hero-extraordinary, Syne 800, uppercase, black, letter-spacing:-0.03em, px-6 md:px-10 lg:px-16).
  • .hero-subtitle-mobile (px-6, Syne 600, clamp(12px,3vw,15px), opacity 0.65, margin-top:0.9em): "Premium real estate with vision, / depth, and architectural clarity."

Responsive type sizes are locked — copy the three @media blocks verbatim from the seed (<=639, 640–1023, >=1024); they swap desktop/mobile subtitles, set padding-top, and size .hero-own-the / .hero-extraordinary.

Section 4 — Scroll-driven house animation (centerpiece)

position:fixed wrapper z-index:22, pointer-events:none, will-change:transform, default bottom:0; left:50%; transform:translateX(-50%); width:100%; min-width:1400px. Inner div entrance: starts translateY(102vh), transitions to translateY(0) via transform 1.5s cubic-bezier(0.45,0,0.15,1) 0.4s when lifting becomes true; once liftDone the transition is removed so the scroll handler takes over. Renders HOUSE_IMG at width:100%, aria-hidden.

After liftDone, updateHousePosition (scroll+resize) computes — locked math:

  • baseW = max(innerWidth, 1400).
  • triggerPoint = -(heroH * 0.30); endPoint = heroRect.top - (darkRect.bottom - vh); progress = clamp((heroRect.top - triggerPoint)/(endPoint - triggerPoint), 0, 1).
  • t = smoothstep(smoothstep(progress)), smoothstep(x)=x*x*(3-2x) applied twice.
  • startX=(vw-baseW)/2, startY=vh-imgH; finalScale=1.45, finalX=(vw-baseW*finalScale)/2, mobileOffset = vw<1024 ? -250 : 4, finalY = darkRect.bottom - imgH*finalScale + 500 + mobileOffset.
  • Interpolate currentX/Y/Scale linearly via t.
  • progress <= 0 → reset to resting (bottom-centered, scale 1). Else top:0; left:0; transform: translate(currentX,currentY) scale(currentScale); transform-origin: top left.

Section 5 — Dark statement + stats (sticky)

Outer position:relative; height:200vh; z-index:20. A 4vh #1a1a1a spacer, then inner .s2-section position:sticky; top:0; height:100vh; background:#1a1a1a; overflow:hidden. Content .s2-content flex column, px-6 md:px-10 lg:px-16, padding-top:clamp(30px,4vw,60px), padding-bottom:clamp(60px,8vw,120px).

  • .s2-statement (Inter 300, #e8e4df, letter-spacing:-0.02em, line-height:1.35, white-space:nowrap, clamp(22px,2.6vw,42px)); wrapper max-width:1200px, centered, padding-left:25%. Four hard-broken lines: "Every estate we present is hand-chosen / through a frame of permanence, refinement, / and timeless detail. Standards are not / a flourish. It is our discipline."
  • .s2-stats-row (same max-width/centered/padding-left:25%, margin-top:clamp(48px,6vw,80px)): 3 flex columns, flex:1, left border 1px solid rgba(255,255,255,0.2) between items, padding-left:clamp(20px,2.5vw,40px) on items 2–3:
    1. 120+ — Portfolio Holdings
    2. 12 — Global Locations
    3. 98% — Patron Loyalty Rate
  • Numbers: Inter 300, white, clamp(36px,4.5vw,72px), line-height:1.1. CountUp: when the element first crosses 30% into viewport (IntersectionObserver), animate 0→end over 2000ms, easing 1-(1-t)^3, render Math.round(eased*end)+suffix.
  • Labels: Inter 400, rgba(255,255,255,0.6), clamp(12px,1.1vw,16px), margin-top:clamp(4px,0.5vw,8px), letter-spacing:0.01em.
  • <=767px: drop the 25% left padding to 0. 768–1023px: padding-left 15%, min-height:70vh.

Section 6 — Hover-expand gallery (slides over Section 5)

.s3-gallery-section position:relative; z-index:25; margin-top:-100vh; background:#1a1a1a; height:100vh; overflow:hidden — the negative margin + higher z slides it up over the sticky dark section. Background ticker .s3-ticker-wrap (inset:0, flex center, overflow:hidden, z-index:0, pointer-events:none) with .ticker-track of two copies of a giant repeating Velar. word-mark; each span Syne 800, clamp(100px,14vw,220px), white, low opacity, white-space:nowrap, letter-spacing:-0.02em, user-select:none, padding-right:0.3em.

Gallery content .s3-gallery-content (z-index:1, flex center, full height, clamp(24px,4vw,60px)). Row .gallery-expand-row (flex, gap:6px, height 70%, max-width 1200px). Each .gallery-expand-item (flex:1 1 0%, full height, border-radius:12px, overflow:hidden, cursor:pointer, transition: flex 0.5s cubic-bezier(0.4,0,0.2,1)) holds its video (autoplay, loop, muted, playsInline, object-fit:cover). On hover the hovered item grows to flex:4, others shrink (accordion expand).

<=1023px: copy the mobile grid rules verbatim from the seed — s3-gallery-section becomes height:auto; min-height:100vh; overflow:visible; ticker becomes sticky; row becomes a 1fr 1fr grid with aspect-ratio:4/5 items and a centered full-width last-odd item; <=479px tightens padding/gap.

Tech notes

  • Only react, react-dom, lucide-react, Tailwind, Vite. No other libraries.
  • All animation logic in a single App.tsx. Use Supabase only if persistence is later needed; this page has no data layer.

Color Rules — hard

Warm off-white #f5f0ea page; deep teal #213138 for preloader + default logo; dark #1a1a1a for the statement/gallery sections; statement text #e8e4df; hero text black. Do not introduce other accent hues — the palette is intentionally monochromatic-luxury.

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