Web design for painters
Astra Labs designs custom websites for house painters, painters and decorators, spray finishers, cabinet refinishers and wallpaper installers. One price, $499, covers up to five pages: $99 when you start and $400 when you love the result, before launch. The site is made from your own room photos and job reels, names the colours you used, explains your prep in your own order of work, and ends in an estimate request that reaches your phone.
We read the work, prices, warranties and old websites of 11 painting and decorating businesses before designing for them. These are the things their customers needed to see, taken from what those businesses actually do.
Dustless sanding, filling, caulking, priming and masking came up again and again in what these painters were proudest of, often tied to a written warranty of two to five years. Lay your real steps out in order with a photo each. It explains why your price is what it is.
Customers remember rooms by colour. Several of these painters already wrote the paint name and maker in their own captions and reels. Putting the colour name beside each finished room turns a gallery into something people save and send to their partner.
This trade films more than most. Between them these businesses had well over a hundred phone reels of walls going from taped and bare to finished. A short, quiet loop from your own clips says more than a stock photo of a roller.
A chipped shutter, a tired kitchen, a dark hallway. Lined-up pairs from the same spot, revealed with the motion of tape or a roller, are the fastest proof you can give.
Some painters here quote by the room or the whole job, one publishes day and hourly rates, one shows starting prices per kind of job, and one charges a small colour consultation that comes back off the paint quote. Whichever you do, say it plainly.
Interior repaints, exterior restorations, cabinets, decks, epoxy floors, spray work for builders and wallpaper are different buyers. Give each the photos and the questions that fit, so a property manager and a homeowner both find their way in.
These are the painting, decorating and wallpaper businesses we designed for in October 2026: 5 in the US, two in New Zealand and one each in Ireland, Australia, the UK and Canada. On 1 November 2026 we reopened each homepage as a phone. It is a small group; read the numbers as what we saw, not a survey of the trade.
The painters in this group were doing a lot right. Only 1 of the 10 homepages we could measure lacked a tap-to-call link, and 9 of 10 described the business for search engines in structured data, far more than most trades. Their weak point was weight: 4 of 10 homepages were over 5 MB, usually from full-size room photos and background films loaded all at once.
The other pattern was distance between the site and the real work. Several opened on a stock house, a stock interior or a generated room, while the painter's own reels of the actual rooms sat on TikTok, Facebook and Instagram. Location pages were common, from eight to nearly two hundred. A few sites had loose ends a customer might notice: a quote form that showed "unavailable", empty image slots, a demo shop left over from a theme, or sample testimonials.
Method: our review notes describe each old site in writing; we counted notes that mention stock or generated images and placeholder or demo content. Phone checks opened each homepage once at 390 pixels wide. See the full method.
None of these businesses asked to be named, so we give the trade and region only. Each design used the painter's own photos, films, colours and words.
The standard parts of every painting site we make, before the one idea that belongs to you.
Phone clips cut into short silent loops and sized for mobile data, so the room plays without a heavy page.
Paint names and makers beside each finished space, taken from your own notes or captions.
The prep steps you actually follow, each with a photo, ending on your warranty in plain words.
A message already written with the room or the outside job and the town, ready for their photos. A proper enquiry form joins it at launch.
Homeowners, landlords, builders and commercial clients each find their own section and photos.
Your dashboard lets you add a finished room, its colour and a reel from your phone the evening you finish.
The same price for a one-person decorator and a crew with spray rigs and a van each. $99 gets us started on your design. The remaining $400 is paid when the site is right for you, before it goes live on your domain.
Paid once, in two parts. Nothing monthly unless you ask us to host it.
We refine the design with you until you love it, and if you still do not, your money comes back in full.
Astra Labs charges $499 one time for a site of up to five pages, paid as $99 at the start and $400 when you are happy with it, before it goes live. Five more pages cost $149. Hosting with us is optional at $30 a month.
Yes, it is often the best material a painter has. Portrait phone reels work well; we trim them past any burnt-in captions, cut short loops and frame them so they look right on both a phone and a laptop.
Yes. Tell us the paint name and maker for each job, or we take them from your captions, and each room carries its colour label. You can add colours yourself for new jobs from the dashboard.
That is a priority on every painting site we make. Photos are resized for each screen, films are short silent loops in light formats, and nothing loads until it is needed, so rooms still look sharp without making visitors wait.
At launch each old address is redirected to the most fitting new page, so links and search results keep working. To keep the pages themselves, the $149 move brings across up to 30 pages and 50 posts.
Yes. Your domain stays registered to you, and your email carries on as before, because we only change the setting that sends visitors to the new site.
Give it a site that does it justice. $499 for the whole site, $99 to start.