We're Jamie, Laci & Max, a family team in Emporia, Kansas. We build sites where guests book you directly: your photos, your calendar synced with Airbnb and Vrbo, and the payment going to you.
Eight host sites are live and taking guests today. Running a local business instead? We build those too.
Live now — real book-direct sites taking guests today
Most of our customers don't need an IT department. They need one team they can call who handles it all.
A clean, professional site that shows up on Google and turns searchers into customers.
AI isn't just for big companies. We find the tools that save you real hours every week.
Be the business people find first — and trust on sight.
The little digital jobs nobody else wants to touch — we love them.
Own an Airbnb or VRBO? We build you a booking site on your own domain, so repeat guests book direct — and you stop handing 15%+ of every stay to the platforms. A couple of bookings usually pays for the whole site.
Rental owners & hosts: give guests one beautiful link with everything — check-in, WiFi, house rules, your favorite restaurants and things to do. Sends automatically with every booking (works with Airbnb, VRBO, iGMS & any platform), plus a QR code for inside the rental. Updates just $50/hr — and it's the natural add-on to any website build.
An original song written just for your place, playing from a simple play button while visitors browse. We've written them for Brodie Cabin, Casa Amoroso, and Miner Stays — where two rentals on one page each got their own song. Tap play on any of them and have a listen. One original song, yours to keep, live on your site in days.
Most agencies ask for money, then show you the work. We do it in the opposite order.
We create a real, working preview of your website using your photos, reviews, and info — before you spend a dime.
Love it? We polish it, connect your own web address, and take it live. Not for you? No hard feelings, no bill.
Our care plan handles hosting, updates, and edits — call or text us and it's done. You run your business; we run the tech.
We wrote down the honest case — what invisibility costs, why Facebook isn’t enough, and the four objections we hear most.
“Should I really get a website?” →Every site below is real and taking guests today. Different owners, different places, same rule: your photos, your reviews, your guests booking with you — not a platform.
Eight vacation rental sites and the directory that connects them. Swipe through — each opens in a new tab.
LiveA luxury wellness retreat in Gilbert, Arizona. Video hero, a cinematic tour, its own song, and a check-availability flow that skips the platforms.
Visit the live site →LiveTwo mountain stays in Taylorsville, North Carolina, on one book-direct site. Owner-operated, with no service fee stacked on the nightly rate.
Visit the live site →LiveA brand-new barndominium hideaway on a working ranch in Tennessee. Live availability, deposits paid straight to the owner, automatic guest emails and an owner dashboard.
Visit the live site →LiveOne of the last original beach cottages in North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Live availability, card payments, a dog-friendly booking flow and an online golf cart waiver.
Visit the live site →LiveA private cabin with a hot tub and infrared sauna on the Fife coast of Scotland. Photos, rates and guest reviews on one page, booked direct with the host.
Visit the live site →LiveA Yosemite-gateway cabin in Tuolumne, California. Real payments, its own song, and every booking skips the 15%+ platform fees.
Visit the live site →LiveOur own two Emporia rentals — where all of this started. Live availability, a cinematic video tour, and every booking direct.
Visit the live site →LiveTwo rentals, two songs, one page: a lakefront house in Connecticut and a ski lodge at Mount Snow, Vermont, with a guestbook of real reviews.
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LiveA free, searchable directory of hosts who take bookings on their own sites. We built it, we run it, and it sends guests straight to the hosts — no middleman.
Visit the live site →Swipe sideways to see all nine
Bar, grill & event venue. Photo slideshow, real menu, online ordering, and a booking-request form that goes straight to the owner.
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A drive-thru donut shop with a design as fun as the product. Menu, hours, and one big friendly Call button.
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A neighborhood deli, 4.7 stars and 600+ reviews — now with a website that finally matches the sandwiches.
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A breakfast institution (2,300+ Google reviews) whose old domain had gone dark. We turned the light back on.
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A salon site built around what customers check first: services, prices, hours, and how to book.
See the build →These are previews, not live sites — each one was built free so the owner could see it before deciding. That's how we work.
Want yours here? Every build starts with a free preview — no card, no commitment.
Pick how hands-on you want to be. Whatever you choose, the price is flat and the site is yours.
Either way: your domain is registered in your name. It's yours forever, no matter what.
An original song written just for your business, playing right on your site. Yours to keep, forever.
A cinematic drone-style video tour made entirely from your still photos — no drone, no film crew, no visit. One is playing behind the words at the top of this page — and three more are just below, ready to watch.
One beautiful link with check-in, WiFi, house rules, and your local favorites — live by tomorrow. The perfect add-on to any website build.
A chat bubble on your site, answered right from your phone — set up, matched to your brand, and free to run forever. Just like the one on this page.
Your booking site, with an owner dashboard built in. See every booking from Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking.com and your site in one spot, cancel a website booking in two taps, change your door code, Wi-Fi and prices yourself, and let your guest emails send themselves. You own it. No monthly platform fee.
Your own booking site, with an owner dashboard built in. Guests book and pay on your site. You get one private page for everything else: who is on every night, your door code and prices, and guest emails that go out on their own. You own the site outright, with no monthly platform fee on top of your care plan. Here is what you see.
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Screens shown with sample guests. Guest emails come from your own domain and go to website bookings; Airbnb, Vrbo and Booking.com guests still get your messages through those apps. Prices you change here update your website, not your Airbnb or Vrbo listings.
Already use a PMS? Keep it. Your PMS stays in charge of checkout and your channels, and we build the site that sits on your own domain in front of it. Ask us how that works.
Every one of these was built from the owner’s own still photos. No drone, no film crew, nobody visiting the property. Tap to watch, then click through to the site it’s running on.
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We started Lantern House Digital after noticing something in our own hometown: great businesses — the best burgers in the county, the salon everyone recommends — that were nearly invisible online. Five-star reviews, and no website to be found.
We're a blessed family of Kansans: three kids — Myah, Max, and Molly — a son-in-law, Kyle, our grandson, Finn, and three Labs who serve as our unofficial greeting committee.
We believe in win-win: you get a professional digital presence at a price that makes sense, and we get to help the local businesses that make main streets worth walking down. No contracts you can't read. No jargon. Just neighbors who happen to be good at the internet.
Co-founder and Media Manager Max represents the next generation of Lantern House Digital. With a deep interest in AI, he stays on the leading edge of the tools reshaping web design and asset management — ensuring our clients get modern, intelligent websites and perfectly optimized media without the big-agency price tag.
Long before neon signs and search engines, a lantern burning in the window meant something simple: we're open, we're home, and you can find your way to our door.
That's exactly the job we do today. The businesses we love most — the diners, the salons, the repair shops — are often the hardest to find online. Great work, five-star reputations, and no light on. We hang the lantern: a website that shows up when people search, so customers can find their way to you.
And the "House"? That's us. A family operation — two parents, three kids, a son-in-law, a grandson, and three Labs — running a business the way you run yours: with our name on it.
Tell us your business name — that's all we need to start your free preview. Or just call and say hi.
Based in Emporia, Kansas · Happily serving businesses anywhere · @lanternhouse_digital