House Nine: A Website Design and Development For a Portland Wellness Studio
How we designed and built a website that speaks directly to House Nine’s audience of burned-out, busy professionals seeking real relief.
Project Snapshot
CLIENT
House Nine
INDUSTRY
Health & Wellness / Massage & Holistic Studio
WHAT WE DID
Website Design, Website Development
PLATFORMS
Squarespace
REGION
Portland, OR (SE Hawthorne)
About House Nine
House Nine is a wellness studio in Portland, Oregon, offering massage therapy, holistic skincare, mindful nutrition counseling, herbal tea service, and wellness workshops, with a specific focus on helping busy professionals recover from chronic stress and tension.
The Challenge
A wellness studio competing in a crowded massage-and-spa market needs a genuinely distinct voice to stand out, not just a services list. A few problems needed solving:
House Nine’s actual audience is specific – busy professionals managing chronic tension, not a general spa customer – and the site needed to speak directly to that person rather than generic wellness language
With several distinct offerings, the site needed to present them as one cohesive philosophy, not a scattered menu
Time-pressed professionals needed a simple, fast way to book, since a complicated booking process works against the exact audience the studio serves
FINAL OUTCOME
Website
Results & Impact
House Nine now has a website that speaks to its actual audience, busy professionals managing chronic tension, rather than generic wellness language, ties four distinct services together under one wellness philosophy, and gives a time-pressed client base a fast, simple way to book.
41%
Increase in Online Bookings
30%
Increase in Corporate Wellness Inquiries
1.5x
Reduction in No-Show Rate
What We Did
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Service-Specific Pages
Dedicated pages for massage therapy, holistic skincare, mindful eating, and herbal tea culture, tied together under one wellness philosophy
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Corporate Wellness Program Page
Dedicated content for the studio’s workplace wellness offering, reaching a B2B audience alongside individual clients
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Integrated Online Booking
A fast, simple booking path suited to a time-pressed client base
Syndell built the site around House Nine’s actual audience, busy professionals managing chronic tension, rather than generic wellness language aimed at a broad spa customer.
Syndell built dedicated service specific pages for massage therapy, holistic skincare, mindful eating, and herbal tea culture, tying them together under one wellness philosophy instead of presenting them as a scattered menu.
Syndell built a fast, simple integrated booking path suited to a time pressed client base, since a complicated booking process works against the exact audience House Nine serves.
Yes. Syndell designs and builds websites for wellness and health businesses that need to speak directly to a specific audience and offer fast, low friction booking. Contact Syndell to talk through your project.
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