How do we stop wasting consultations on unqualified leads?

A structured inquiry form captures scope, timeline, and budget range before anyone books, so discovery calls are with clients who fit. See automation for interior designers.

Can clients see concept boards and approve selections online?

Yes — a logged-in client area keeps boards, selections, approvals, and invoices in one place instead of scattered email. That's the platform tier.

Should we start with a website or a client portal?

Most studios start with a portfolio website and add the client area when project volume makes email painful — it's the natural, cost-aligned order.

Can clients book paid design consultations online?

Yes — gated self-serve booking ties to your calendar and can require the intake form first, connected to online payments for paid sessions.

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Websites, apps & automation for interior design studios

Updated August 2026 · Nabee Studio

Nabee Studio builds custom websites, platforms, and automation for interior design studios — from $4,500 one-time or $499/mo for 24 months with maintenance and hosting included. One partner replaces the stack of vendors, template subscriptions, and manual work, so working with us saves money, time, or both.

Interior design sells taste, and taste has to be seen — yet many designers' websites bury the portfolio behind slow galleries and generic templates that make distinctive work look like everyone else's. The site's real job is to communicate a point of view strongly enough that the right client self-selects, and to qualify inquiries so the studio isn't spending discovery calls on people who can't afford the work.

Without that, a principal's week fills with unqualified consultations, e-design and full-service inquiries land in the same undifferentiated inbox, and the portfolio — the whole reason someone hires you — doesn't do its job.

Where interior design studios lose time and money online

The portfolio doesn't sell the point of view

A grid of thumbnails on a template makes remarkable work look ordinary. Project stories — the brief, the constraints, the transformation — are what convince a client you can do what they need. The site should present work as narrative, not just images.

Unqualified inquiries eat discovery calls

Designers burn hours on consultations with people who don't understand scope or budget. A structured inquiry form that captures project type, scope, timeline, and budget range filters for fit before anyone books a call.

Different service tiers land in one inbox

E-design, room refreshes, and full-service renovations are different products with different clients. Undifferentiated inquiries force manual triage. Clear service pages and routed forms sort the buyer before they reach you.

Client updates and approvals happen over scattered email

Concept boards, selections, and approvals ping-pong through email and lose their thread. A simple client area (or at minimum organized project pages) keeps a project's decisions in one place.

What manual work does a custom build remove?

The typical interior design studio runs on manual touchpoints like these:

Fielding unqualified consultation requests with no budget or scope filter
Manually triaging e-design vs. full-service inquiries from one inbox
Emailing concept boards and selections back and forth for approval
Building bespoke proposals and fee schedules by hand for each client
Tracking project milestones and deliverables in spreadsheets
Chasing invoices and retainer payments manually

Each of those is hours a week that a custom build turns into software:

Qualified inquiry intake — A structured form captures project type, scope, timeline, and budget range, so consultations are with clients who actually fit — not a filter you apply by hand.
Service-tier routing — Separate paths for e-design, refreshes, and full-service work that route each inquiry correctly instead of dumping everything in one inbox.
Consultation scheduling — Self-serve booking for discovery and design consultations tied to your real calendar, with confirmations and reminders handled automatically.
Client project area — A logged-in space for concept boards, selections, approvals, and invoices, so a project's decisions live in one place instead of scattered email.

Integrations that matter for interior design studios

Consultation scheduling / calendar · Online payments & retainers (Stripe) · CRM / proposal tools · Portfolio & image management · E-signature for agreements · Project / approval tracking — built in, not bolted on with extra subscriptions.

What does it cost?

One scoping pass, one fixed number — no hourly billing. Full-service studios benefit from a logged-in client area for boards, selections, and approvals; a portfolio-only studio can start with a website and grow into the platform.

Website — from $4,500 one-time (standard from $7,500), or $499/mo for 24 months with the Maintenance Plan and hosting included.
Platform — from $16,000 one-time, or $1,399/mo for 24 months with Website Update + Maintenance included.

The monthly plan totals somewhat more than paying up front — that's the honest trade for spreading the cost and having us operate everything for two years. Details in the payment plan guide and on the pricing page.

Start a project — describe your interior design studio and get a fixed quote after one scoping pass.

Common questions

How do we stop wasting consultations on unqualified leads?: A structured inquiry form captures scope, timeline, and budget range before anyone books, so discovery calls are with clients who fit. See automation for interior designers.
Can clients see concept boards and approve selections online?: Yes — a logged-in client area keeps boards, selections, approvals, and invoices in one place instead of scattered email. That's the platform tier.
Should we start with a website or a client portal?: Most studios start with a portfolio website and add the client area when project volume makes email painful — it's the natural, cost-aligned order.
Can clients book paid design consultations online?: Yes — gated self-serve booking ties to your calendar and can require the intake form first, connected to online payments for paid sessions.