VELMORA BEFORE & AFTER · Redesign concept · Furniture workshop
Same business. Completely different website.
A furniture repair and restoration workshop with real services, real clients and real work — and a site that showed none of it. The business stays exactly as it is; the website is rebuilt around it.
This is a redesign concept made for the VELMORA BEFORE & AFTER series. The business shown did not commission it, and the original website was not changed.
- Status
- Redesign concept
- Year
- 2026
- Episode
- Watch the episode
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Context
The workshop repairs, restores and reupholsters furniture. It has a track record, a portfolio and clients who come back. Its website is a template from another decade: the strongest facts about the business are either missing or buried, and a first-time visitor has no reason to trust what they cannot see.
Approach
Nothing about the business was changed — not the services, not the prices, not the photographs. Only the presentation. The concept leads with the work itself, makes before-and-after the central device on every service page, puts the workshop's real materials and process where a visitor looks for reasons to trust, and shortens the path to a quote to one screen. The episode walks through the old site, the problems, and the new version side by side.
Design decisions
- The work leads: real restoration photographs, not stock
- Before / after as the central device on every service page
- One calm palette, one type family, generous spacing
- A quote request that fits on one screen on a phone
Engineering
- Next.js App Router, static routes for services, projects, reviews and articles
- Photographs from the original site re-encoded locally — nothing hot-linked
- Interactive before / after slider, gallery lightbox and quote form
- Built as a local demonstration; the original site was not touched and nothing was deployed
Technology
- Next.js
- TypeScript
- Tailwind CSS
- Motion