Wren & Holt
A portfolio that finally moved at the pace of the studio.
- 3.1×
- Qualified enquiries per month
- +184%
- Time on project pages
- 98
- Lighthouse performance

We design and build the portfolio site your work has earned — bespoke, considered, and written to bring in the projects you actually want. The work does the selling.
By the time an enquiry reaches your inbox the decision is mostly made — on a phone, in under a minute, from your photography and the order it was read in.
A site built in a hurry on a theme costs you twice. Once when a serious client reads a smaller studio than the one you run. Again when the enquiries that arrive are the wrong size.
We build one kind of site, for one kind of studio — the kind whose work is detailed to the millimetre and whose own website is still last on the list.
Every project uploaded, newest first
Six projects, in the order that sells the studio
Photography compressed until the finish disappears
Material, light and detail held at full resolution
Name, email, message
Budget, scale and site dates, asked in the open
A theme, bought once and left alone
Built for your work, and yours to edit
We build the version that carries your prices for you. One studio at a time.
How the fourteen days runStudios in interiors, fit-out and joinery. Each one launched inside a two-week programme, each one written to bring in a specific kind of project.
A portfolio that finally moved at the pace of the studio.

Tender-ready in ten days, without a single stock photograph.

The workshop became the argument.

One page, one project, one very specific buyer.

Not the launch-day thank-you notes — what a studio says once the site has been bringing in enquiries for a season.
Four enquiries in the first week. Two of them were the right size.
We had been putting the site off for two years. It was written, designed and live inside a fortnight, and nobody on our side had to chase anything.
They argued with our running order and they were right. The projects are read in the order we would want them read, which is not the order we would have picked.
The first client meeting after launch, they had already read three case studies.
Our photography finally looks like the work does in person. Half of that was the art direction, not the build.
Fixed price, fixed date, and the date held. I have commissioned enough fit-out to know how rare that is.
Nobody on the team has emailed a developer since handover.
It reads like a set of drawings rather than a brochure. That is exactly the impression we wanted to leave.
The budget question is answered before anyone calls us.
I was sceptical about a two-week programme and said so. The copy deck came back on day three and after that there was nothing left to argue about, which I suspect was the point.
We stopped sending PDFs. The site does what the deck used to do, and it does it before the first call.
Two of our last three projects came through the site. That had never happened.
One thing I would change: I would have given them the photography earlier. That was on us and it cost us three days.
The handover recording is twelve minutes long and I have watched it once. Everything since has been obvious.
It looks like the studio we are, not the studio we were.
What surprised me was how much of it was writing. We spent longer on the words than on the design, and the words are the part clients quote back to us.
Everything below is included in a build. We do not sell these separately, because a portfolio site fails at whichever of the four you leave out.
Most studio sites are an archive. We build a route: which project opens, what a visitor understands by the second scroll, where the scale of your work becomes unmistakable. Project pages are sequenced like a walk-through, not stacked like a gallery.
A luxury site that collects tyre-kickers is an expensive brochure. We put budget bands, project scale and timelines in the open, place the form where readers actually are, and route each enquiry with the context your team needs to reply in one message.
No themes and no page builders. Every site is designed for your work and built in Next.js — typography set by hand, motion tuned frame by frame, and a content model your team can edit without calling us.
We launch with the analytics, tracking and search basics already wired, hand you a short walkthrough recording, and stay on for the snagging period. After that the site keeps pace with the studio: add work through the CMS yourself, or put us on a retainer for that, campaign pages and a quarterly performance pass.
Logo design, brand identity from scratch, printed collateral and social media management. We know studios who do all four well, and will introduce you.
Fit-out runs to a programme, so this does too. Four phases, one fixed price, and a launch date that only moves if a decision on your side moves it.
A working session on positioning and running order, then sitemap and every word written. Copy is approved before a pixel moves, which is why the design stage never loops.
DeliverableApproved copy deck
Type, palette, grid and motion language set against your existing brand, plus a shot list if new photography is needed.
DeliverableTwo key pages, designed
Next.js build, CMS wired, responsive down to the smallest phone, tested on real devices. You watch it go up on a staging link.
DeliverableStaging site, daily updates
One consolidated snag list, a performance and search pass, then DNS. Handover recording lands the same day, and thirty days of fixes start.
DeliverableLive site and handover
Invoiced 25% to hold the dates, 25% when the copy deck is approved, and 50% on launch — or in one payment if that suits your accounts. If the copy deck is not right, we stop there and you keep it.
Not in the price: VAT, photography, stock licensing and any subscriptions you keep. Each one is costed and agreed with you before it is spent.
Quoted in AED, or in USD, GBP or EUR.
Send us the studio, the work you want to lead with, and roughly what you have in mind. We reply the same working day with an honest read — including when the answer is that a new website is not what will move your enquiries.