The site is the first thing you designed for them.
Built for studios that draw and build. Show the work at the size it deserves, on a site that reads as one considered thing rather than a template you moved into.
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Design and build
Houses that belong where they stand.
A studio that designs and builds, so the drawing and the joinery answer to the same people. Western North Carolina, one project at a time.
Design and build under one roof · Two projects at a time
New houses
Ground up, drawn and built by the same studio.
Whole-house renovation
Old bones, reworked to live the way you actually do.
Additions
Extensions that read as though they were always there.
A grid, in their crop, next to an ad
Houzz
They own the leadYour work beside four competitors
Your site
You own all of itYour work, your pace, your name on it
The competition
You aren't competing with other builders
A client comparing design-build companies is looking at three tabs, and two of them belong to someone else. Instagram crops your work and puts an ad beside it. Houzz shows it next to four competitors. Neither of those is a place you can control what the work looks like.
Your crop, your order. Show the project the way it should be seen, at the size it deserves.
Nothing beside it. No competitor tile, no advert, no algorithm deciding what loads next.
Still yours next year. A platform can change its terms. Your site can't be reorganized by someone else.
Restrained
Fern Hollow, a house in the trees
Design and build, completed 2025. Blackbutt, glass and a roof that follows the slope.
Every page on the site follows this, not just the one.
The look
A site that looks like you designed it
If you sell taste, an off-the-shelf theme is an argument against hiring you. The look here is settings rather than a template, so the whole site reads as one thing you chose. Change your mind in a year and every page follows, which isn't true of a template you have already poured your work into.
One decision, every page. A color and a shape, and the whole site moves together.
No template to fight. You aren't working around someone else's idea of what a portfolio looks like.
Rebrand without rebuilding. A new direction is an afternoon, not a project.
The rest of it, already done.
Wren & Marlow: Design and Build Studio
Turning up when they search
Every project page you publish is set up for search on its own, so the work can be found by people who aren't already following you.
PROJECTS
23
REQUESTS
11
What is working
See which projects do the work
A simple dashboard shows which projects people spend time on, which is usually not the one you expected.
Your name
Your own web address
Use the one you already own. The padlock is handled for you and renews itself.
Goes live in 2 days
Sat, 9:00 AM
Changes
Publish when the photos land
Add the project, hit publish, done. Or line it up to go live the morning the shoot is released.
Upkeep
Nothing to keep updated
No plugins, no security patches, no bill from someone to keep it running.
Questions studios ask.
Because Instagram owns the audience and decides how your work is cropped, ordered and interrupted. It's a good place to be found and a poor place to be judged. Most studios keep posting and send people somewhere they control for the part that decides the job.
That's the right worry, and it's why the look here is settings rather than a template. You pick a color, a shape and a type direction, and the whole site follows. It reads as one thing you chose rather than something you moved into.
Yes. Each project is its own page and you decide how it's laid out. Full-width photography, drawings, before and after, whatever the project needs. It isn't a fixed grid you have to squeeze the work into.
You change the settings and every page follows. That's the part a template can't do, because on a template the design lives inside each page and you end up rebuilding rather than redirecting.
Then you'll want the branding controls rather than the defaults. Type, weight, tracking, corner shape and shadow are all yours. What you can't do is break the design on one page and not the others, which is usually the thing that saves a studio from itself.
Keep them if the relationship works. What changes is that adding a finished project stops being a ticket, so the work goes up the week it's photographed rather than whenever there's budget.
Show the work properly.
Start from a studio layout, put your projects in, and choose a look that is yours. It can be live this week.
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