Cornice

Overview

Cornice is a design-build renovation theme for whole-home interior remodeling firms — kitchens, baths, whole-home renovations, open-concept conversions, basement finishing, home additions. Every interactive device on the site is computed from real, checkable construction math, not a styled-up random-number generator.

1. A real header/beam span calculator. Enter a span, a tributary width, and a load case and it runs real LVL 1.9E-2600Fb structural formulas — bending stress, deflection against L/360, and shear — against the standard catalogue of ply/depth combinations, returning the smallest header that passes all three checks. Explicitly labelled as a budgetary planning tool, not a stamped engineering document.

2. A real room-to-materials estimator. Room dimensions in, real trade coverage rates out: paint gallons at 350 sq ft/gallon/coat, flooring boxes with a 10% waste factor, and baseboard piece counts.

3. A real critical-path renovation schedule. A genuine 15-task Critical Path Method schedule for a gut renovation — forward/backward pass, computed slack, and the actual critical path highlighted — rendered as an interactive Gantt chart from server-computed data.

The persistent background is a scroll-driven, deliberately low-poly Three.js scene of a room moving through four real construction stages — existing shell, framed, enclosed, finished. It degrades to a single static frame of the finished stage under reduced-motion, no-WebGL2, or a weak GPU. Inner pages carry a “blueprint margin” — a sticky left rail styled like the title block of an architectural drawing sheet. 8 real-feeling case studies across all six project types, with real sourced photography.