Interior designer website design
Elimenti designs custom websites for interior designers in Hinsdale, Western Springs and the western suburbs of Chicago. The site works like a printed portfolio with an intake process attached: your best rooms first, your process next and an inquiry form that tells you who's a fit.
What an interior designer website needs to do
- Projects, not a photo dump. Each project gets its own page: the town, the scope, the brief and the rooms, in the order you'd walk a client through them. Six strong projects beat forty mixed ones.
- A process clients can picture. Consultation, design, procurement, installation. Say how long each phase takes and how you bill, so nobody is surprised by how long the furniture takes to arrive.
- Inquiries that qualify. A form that asks the town, the rooms, new build or renovation, timeline and an investment range. You spend consultations on clients who fit.
- A clear starting point. If you have a minimum project size or a design fee, saying so on the site saves both sides a call.
- Credits where they belong. Your photographer, the builders and architects you work alongside and any press, each named plainly.
- Big photos that still load fast. Large images are what slow portfolio sites down. We size and compress every image for the screen it's shown on.
What the Harrow & Finch concept shows
The homepage opens on one room and gets out of the way. The project page tells one renovation from brief to install, room by room, with captions that explain the choices. The inquiry page lays out the four phases and the fee structure in plain numbers, then asks what a designer needs to know before a first call: town, rooms, timeline and investment range.
Our closest work
Our client work so far is a boutique, a car club, a contractor and an artist. The closest to this is Aamineez Art, a portfolio site we built for an Arabic calligraphy artist: the work first, the words short and inquiries one tap away. Read the Aamineez case study →
What it costs
Projects start at $3,000. Most land between $3,500 and $4,500. A studio with many project pages, or one that wants a new visual identity at the same time, can sit above that range. Every project is scoped individually, and the price is in your written proposal before any work starts.
After launch, Site Care adds new projects and press at $175 a month or $85 an hour. What a website costs in the western suburbs →
Questions interior designers ask
How much does a website for an interior designer cost?
A custom Elimenti website for an interior designer starts at $3,000, and most projects land between $3,500 and $4,500. The main variable is how many projects get their own page. Copywriting, a basic SEO setup and up to three rounds of revisions are included. You get a written proposal with the exact price before any work starts.
Is a custom website better than Squarespace or Showit for a designer?
For an established studio, usually yes. A custom-coded site looks like your work instead of a template other designers also use, and it loads large photos faster. The tradeoff is that you can't drag and drop changes yourself. If you're just starting out and want to edit the site every week, Squarespace or Showit is a reasonable choice.
Can my inquiry form screen out clients who aren't a fit?
Yes. We build the form around the questions you'd ask on a first call: town, rooms, new build or renovation, timeline and investment range. Answers come straight to your inbox. The form won't make decisions for you, but you'll know before the call whether the project fits your minimum and your calendar.
Should I put my design fee or minimum on my website?
If you have a firm minimum, yes. Stating it, even as a starting range, saves you calls with clients who were never going to fit. You don't need a price list. One sentence on where full-service projects usually begin, plus how you bill design time, is enough.
Can you add new projects after launch?
Yes. Through Site Care, send the photos and a few notes on the project, and we write it up and publish it, usually within five business days. Site Care is $175 a month on the plan we recommend, or $85 an hour for individual updates. Press features and new services go up the same way.
Will you use my photographer's images?
Yes, and we design around them. Professional interiors photography is the most important thing on a designer's site, so we build layouts that show it large and serve each image at the right size for the screen. Photo credits go where your photographer's agreement says they should.
Where we work
Elimenti is based in Hinsdale and Oak Brook. We build for interior designers across the western suburbs: Hinsdale, Oak Brook, Burr Ridge, Western Springs, Clarendon Hills, Elmhurst, Glen Ellyn and Naperville. Projects run remotely, and design reviews happen on screen, so distance doesn't change the process.