Eleventh House

Eleventh House is the web home I am building for a small arts collective: part gallery, part bulletin board, part front door for people who want to join. The visual language is collage, closer to a zine than a SaaS landing page, and the build serves that instead of flattening it.

Under the hood it is Next.js with Payload as the CMS, so the collective manages its own content: gallery pieces, events, bulletin posts, and the site's copy itself are all editable by non-developers through the admin panel. Join requests flow through the site with admin approval, and the admin navigation mirrors the site's own structure so editors always know where they are.

The project runs on free-tier infrastructure by design, because a collective's website should not have a burn rate. That constraint shaped real engineering decisions around storage, database choice, and build-time work.

What it demonstrates

Building for non-technical editors, content modeling in a headless CMS, and shipping something expressive on a zero-dollar budget. Also the difference between making a site and making a place.