A furniture theme that sells room by room.

An OpenCart theme for considered purchases

Nobody buys a sofa on impulse. Hearth is built for furniture, lighting, rugs, textiles and homeware: a room hero slider with a floating card, a room mega menu with a photo tile per room, Shop by room tiles, and tabbed products for best sellers, new arrivals and sale items.

Studio-sweep cards at 4:5 show a material line, colour swatches, a delivery line and tags such as New, sale percentage and Low stock, plus your own labels.

Product page detail

• Hover zoom and option chips.
• A dimensions line.
• A delivery panel with estimated dates, assembly and returns lines.
• Frequently bought together.
• Colourways: each colour is its own product, linked by an attribute, so each shows as a swatch.

Complete the look shows a room scene beside a checklist of its products, with a live total and one Add to cart button. It is how a showroom sells a whole room.

Presets and settings

Four presets change shapes and tone, not only colour: Clay (terracotta), Coast (sea blue with square corners), Rattan (cream and honey with pill buttons) and Evening (a dark edition).

Promo banners, the makers strip, reviews, ideas cards and a newsletter band are all optional, and all set from one settings page, per store. Outfit and Hanken Grotesk are self-hosted. Your Theme Editor changes always win, and a licence problem never blocks the store.

The Hearth Store Kit on the packages page adds Product Personalizer for engraved pieces and Make an Offer for big-ticket items.

See Hearth on the store. It is also on WooCommerce and PrestaShop.

What to prepare for a furniture store on OpenCart

Furniture has long consideration times and high return costs, so your product pages do the work of a showroom.

• Dimensions: give width, depth and height on every product, plus the packed size. Add seat height and doorway clearance where relevant.
• Materials: state wood type, fabric composition and finish. "Oak veneer" and "solid oak" are different products, and buyers know it.
• Delivery: say who delivers, whether it goes to the room or the kerb, and how long it takes. Made-to-order lead times should be on the product page, not in the FAQ.
• Assembly: say whether it is needed and how long it takes.
• Photos: one clean studio shot, one room shot for scale, and close-ups of texture and joints.
• Variants: if each fabric has its own lead time or price, make sure the variant structure can show that.

For search, room and style pages often work better than bare categories: "small dining tables", "oak bedroom furniture". Give each a short useful introduction, written for a person measuring a room.

Care guides are also worth publishing. They answer questions shoppers ask before buying, and they bring in visitors who already own similar pieces.

Think about your returns policy before launch. Large items are costly to collect, so be clear about who pays and in what condition goods must come back.

Compatibility

OpenCart 4.0.2.0 to 4.1.0.4 and 3.0.3.8 to 3.0.5.x, one licence for both, tested on 4.1.0.4 and 3.0.5.1. No core changes and no OCMOD.

From install to launch

Set the preset first, because it changes shapes as well as colour. Then fill the room menu with your categories, one photo per room, and write material lines for your best sellers. Delivery estimates appear on the product page, so make sure your real lead times are in place before launch. Add the makers strip only if you can name real makers.

Before you launch a new OpenCart theme

Try the theme on a copy of your store first. Local development hosts and subdomains of your licensed domain are covered.

1. Install the theme, then pick it for your store under System, Settings.
2. Set the preset and fill in the settings page, section by section. A section that is switched off or has an empty title is not shown.
3. Check image sizes, so your product photos are not stretched.
4. Prepare the attributes, options or filter groups the theme reads. Elements without data simply do not show.
5. Test a full order on a phone with your payment method, and check any extension that prints on the product page.
6. Clear the theme and image caches, then go live at a quiet hour.

Files you edit in the Theme Editor always win, so keep a note of your changes. They are easy to compare after an update.