Haven
A warm Ghost theme for interiors and home-décor writers: arched photos, a moodboard homepage, before/after sliders, colour palettes from every photo and home tours with a project card.
// overview
About Haven
Haven is a warm journal for interiors and home-décor writers. Arched photos, a moodboard homepage, before/after sliders and colour palettes picked from every photo suit makeovers, room tours and renovation diaries.
Who it is for
- You write about interiors, décor or renovation
- You show makeovers and want before/after photos to shine
- You publish home tours and real budgets
- You sell a members-only planner, course or newsletter
Probably not for you if
- You run a recipe site — see Saffron
- You show a photography portfolio — see Noir
- You write travel stories — see Wander
Pages and layouts
Page templates: Rooms, Contributors, Membership, Signin, Signup, Account.
Extra post layouts: Home tour.
Getting set up
- Homepage: mark three or more posts as Featured; the newest three fill the arches. Set Hero title in the theme settings.
- Home tours: add the internal tag #tour and choose the Home tour post template. Use headings for each room; they become the list beside the text.
- Project card: add internal tags such as #budget £1,900 and #time Six weekends.
- Rooms page: create a page with the slug topics and the Rooms template; give each tag an image, a description and an accent colour.
- Upload the theme zip in Ghost Admin → Settings → Design, then fill in the theme settings.
- Import the sample content if you want to start from the demo and replace it with your own posts.
What you download
- The theme, ready for Ghost 6.0 or later (haven_1.0.0)
- Documentation in HTML
- Sample content you can import into Ghost
- 12 months of updates and support from the people who built it
Requirements
A Ghost 6 site: Ghost(Pro) on a plan that allows custom themes, or self-hosted Ghost. Memberships and paid tiers use Ghost's own members feature and its Stripe connection; the theme adds the pages and the paywall design. Demo photos are not included in the download.
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What's included
- Arches everywhere: an arched trio and a setting sun on the homepage, arch-topped card photos, a wide arched post photo (or switch to rounded or square in the theme settings)
- Moodboard homepage: posts in masonry columns that keep their places when more stories load
- Before/after slider: a two-photo gallery whose caption starts with "Before" becomes a slider you drag, swipe or move with the arrow keys
- Colour palette from every post photo: five colours picked automatically, each copies its code with one click
- Swatch lists: a list whose items start with a colour code (#D8C7B0 Oat — walls) becomes arched paint cards
- Project card from internal tags: #room, #budget, #time, #style, #where and #size
- Home tour post template: a tall arched window beside the title, the project card and a sticky list of rooms
- Home tours row on the homepage for posts with the internal tag #tour, with a badge on their cards
- Browse by room: round tag photos under the hero
- Rooms page of arched doorways and a Contributors page
- Styled product cards for "shop the look" and a drop cap on every post
- Light by default, with a warm walnut dark mode and a reader toggle
- Membership page with tiers and a monthly/yearly switch; styled paywall for members and paid posts
- Sign in, sign up and account pages
- Self-hosted fonts (Gloock, Nunito Sans)
- Fully translatable, 17 theme settings, no jQuery
Compatibility & tags
Changelog
v1.0.0 · 2026-09-30
- First release.
// faq
Questions about Haven
No. Haven is a theme for Ghost, the open-source publishing platform. It needs a Ghost 6 site, either on Ghost(Pro) with a plan that allows custom themes, or self-hosted Ghost.
No. You upload the zip in Ghost Admin and change colours, homepage sections and text in the theme settings (17 of them). The documentation walks through every setting. Custom CSS is optional.
Yes. The theme includes a membership page with your tiers and a monthly/yearly switch, a styled paywall for members-only and paid posts, and sign-in, sign-up and account pages. Payments run through Ghost's built-in Stripe connection, so you keep your subscribers and your revenue.
Yes. Every word the theme shows comes from a translation file, so you can translate it into your site's language.
The regular licence covers one website that you or your client run. The extended licence is for a single end product that you sell to others, for example a paid product where buyers receive a site built on the theme. If you are unsure which one you need, contact us before you buy.
Yes. Our Ghost theme install and setup service puts the theme on your Ghost site, sets your colours, navigation and homepage, connects memberships and imports your content. See the services page for the price.
Read more about Haven
Best Ghost Theme for a Food Blog in 2026: What a Recipe Site Really Needs
A recipe site is not a normal blog. Readers cook from it with flour on their hands. Here is what a Ghost theme for food bloggers has to do, and where Saffron fits.
Best Ghost Theme for an Interiors and Home Décor Blog in 2026
Interiors readers want to see the change, steal the colours and know what it cost. Here is what a Ghost theme for home writers should do, and how Haven does it.
Best Ghost Theme for a Fashion Magazine or Style Blog in 2026
Fashion readers expect the calm, luxurious feel of a printed magazine. Here is what a Ghost theme for style writers should do, and how Atelier delivers it.
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