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Lumen

A Shopify theme I designed, built and sell: scent notes on every product, a scent finder, build-your-own gift sets, wholesale and stockist pages. Online Store 2.0, three styles, no apps needed.

What I built: Shopify theme, from market research to demo store
For: Candle makers, home-fragrance brands and home-decor shops
Stack: Liquid · Online Store 2.0 · vanilla JavaScript · CSS
Live demo: cezarys-lumen.myshopify.com ↗ · password: lumen

hearth & wick · demo store

Lumen demo store homepage with a cozy living-room hero

( The project )

Before writing a line of code I studied the Shopify themes on Creative Market: about 745 listings, but only a few dozen that ever sold. The buyers are small, design-led brands, and candle and home makers were searching for themes with almost nothing good to choose from.

Lumen is my answer: a theme written from scratch for that niche, with the features those shops need built in instead of bolted on with apps. The demo store, Hearth & Wick, is a fictional candle brand I set up to show it off.

What I built.

01
Scent notes
Top, heart and base notes on every product page and a short notes line on every card, read from simple product tags or a metafield. Burn time, wax and wick sit right under the buy button.
02
Scent finder & filters
Shoppers pick Woody, Floral, Fresh or Gourmand and see their matches straight away. Collections get one-click scent chips on top of Shopify's own filters and sorting.
03
Build your own set
Customers pick any three minis and add the whole trio in one click. Every line is labelled with the set name, ready for an automatic discount. No app needed.
04
Built to sell
A cart drawer with a free-shipping progress bar, gift messages and upsells, refreshed through Shopify's Section Rendering API. Wholesale enquiry and stockist pages, three styles, no jQuery.