You want a specific look
Painting is a visual trade and some contractors care a great deal about presentation. A builder will always give you more control over that than we will.
Painter website templates
A template gives you a gallery. A gallery fills up once
Every painting template is built around a portfolio block you populate at launch. Then you finish another eighty jobs and none of them ever get in, because adding them means opening an editor.
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A gallery from launch year
Eight jobs, none of them recent
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Eighty jobs, in order
Newest at the top, all findable
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8 vs 80
Same painter, different destination
The portfolio ages while the work improves
The gallery on most painting sites is from the year the site launched. The painter's work has moved on considerably since, and prospective customers are judging the current business by its oldest photographs.
Start your 14-day trialA gallery holds what you put in it once
A site built around posting keeps adding. Even at two jobs a week the gap by year end is not close. Drag the slider.
96 examples
of your work, ready for the next customer who looks you up
One page per job
Month 1
Month 3
Month 6
Month 12
A normal website
nothing new after launch
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A normal website
nothing new after launch
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Growth potential FOR Your Forxample site
1 page per postNew pages added since launch
96
pages / year
M1
8
M3
24
M6
48
M12
96
When a painting template makes sense
There are genuine cases, and it is worth naming them rather than arguing that templates are simply bad.
Start your 14-day trialThe site is a credibility check, not a lead source
If your work comes from builders, agents and repeat customers, and the site exists so people can confirm you are real, a template does that perfectly well.
You have someone to maintain it
An office manager or a partner who will keep the portfolio current removes the main objection entirely.
No portfolio to curate
Every job goes up as its own page as you finish it. There is no choosing a best-of, no resizing, no re-uploading a gallery block.
Details once
Business name, services, area, contact.
Post the job you just finished
It becomes a page, not a tile.
Never curate again
The portfolio orders itself by when you worked.
Where filled-in painting templates fall down
Three problems, all of which appear well after the decision to use one.
The gallery becomes a time capsule
Eight jobs from launch year, still representing you. In a trade where craft improves noticeably over time, that is an unflattering way to be judged.
Stock interiors are obvious
Painting templates ship with beautifully lit rooms nobody in your business painted. A homeowner who spots one assumes the rest of the site is equally unreliable.
Job types get flattened
Cabinet respraying, exterior render, interior repaint and commercial work all become bullet points in one services block, when each was a separate search worth its own page.
Stop curating a portfolio
The best painting site is not the one with your eight favourite jobs. It is the one with all eighty.
Start your 14-day trialFrequently asked questions
Will my work still appear together like a portfolio?
Yes, it reads as one on the site. The difference is that each job also has its own page underneath, which is what makes it findable rather than just viewable.
How much say do I have over the design?
You choose a look during setup and your photographs carry most of the visual weight. If arranging layouts yourself matters to you, a builder is the better tool.
Can I bring across my existing portfolio?
Yes. Post them one at a time rather than as a batch, since that gives each job its own page and its own search rather than another gallery tile.
I paid for a template site last year. Was that wasted?
Not necessarily. Ask whether a single job has been added since it launched. If not, the money bought a brochure rather than a marketing asset, and that is a model problem rather than a template one.
Can I switch to a template later?
Yes. Your domain and your photographs are yours throughout, so nothing about starting here restricts what you do afterwards.
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