The best Squarespace templates for interior designers

When you’re attracting corporate clients, it doesn’t hurt to have a website that’s a little more buttoned-up. Like a firm handshake, Utica makes a good impression with a format that lets you start with a mission statement, followed by a large photo of your work to back it up. The background photo can also be switched out for a video or animation, which is a fun feature not offered on Version 7.0 templates. 

As potential clients scroll down, you can highlight all the varied projects in your portfolio. On the back end of things, these projects can be edited as their own page and designed to your liking. They can also be optimised for SEO and social, so they will be both discoverable and shareable. This template starts you out on a professional footing and allows you to add a lot of detail without losing the clean and concise nature, perfect for attracting clients who want to bring order and style into their space.

Bergen is another template that begins with a mission statement, but this time you can put your projects first. This is a great template for interior designers who specialise in or offer different styles or services. Bergen gives each item equal weight as they appear below your mission statement and serve as links to pages where you can further expand on your offerings.

The layout balances a professional look and template that lets you add all the important details of your business without sacrificing opportunities to add a personal touch. In addition to a top navigation bar that makes the website easy to get around, the contact button gets special attention at the top of the navigation, which will stick to the top of the screen as the viewer scrolls.

If you’re looking for a website to highlight special services or products, Novo can evenly display every item on the home page. Each image is linked to a project page where you can expand on each topic. This template is particularly useful if you sell furniture pieces. Instead of flooding the viewer with too much text, you can let them scroll through the page until something catches their eye. As they hover over a photo, a title will pop up and a click-through will take them to the project page for more detail.

The navigation bar is minimalistic and when clicked, takes over the whole page, making it clear for the users how to find the other pages. This template works best if you do not have too many products or services to link to on the homepage, but if you do have a large supply you can also consider breaking your stock down into separate categories so you still get a nice and clean first impression.

If you’re an interior designer who specialises in creating unique looks for your clients, a template that lets you show off your versatility should be a priority. Rather than start with a mission statement or a lead photo, Gates lets your work speak for itself with a homepage that makes your portfolio shine as a whole. Users can click to enlarge the photo for a better look, while pertinent information, like your about and contact page, can be kept in the top navigation.

Because there is not much room to display your projects on the home page without deviating from the template, this look is best for designers who want to make the point that they can deliver a variety of styles and looks. For example, someone who has designed many restaurants or production sets can show off the variety of atmospheres they are capable of assembling.

If your business is just getting started or if you don’t have time to build out a large catalog of all your past work, Kearny is a bite-sized template that makes a splash without a lot of effort. You just need one good photo to set as the full-bleed background and you can put your business’s most pertinent information on top, like your address and how to contact you.

This is a simple website template for newcomers or people who may not yet have the time to upload the breadth of their work and edit their website. However, if you did want to add more than just the main photo, you can also add sections to show off quotes from past clients, a contact form, or image galleries.

For designers who have infused their personalities into their brand, a website is a great way to put your best face forward. Particularly useful for designers who also want to use their website as a place to promote a podcast, newsletter, or video series, Paloma lets you set the tone and promote your side projects. This template grabs your viewer’s attention with a striking full-bleed photograph, where you can plug in some text and a call to action, followed by a gallery where you can show off some of your latest posts or projects. 

This template works great if you plan to prominently feature a photograph of yourself, but sections can be added to further represent your portfolio. One of the nice things about this template is that there are many places to plug in a different call to action, which is useful if you’re hoping to gain subscribers or convert website visits into client inquiries.

If there’s a defining ethos of your design style, such as a focus on sustainability or prioritising locally-crafted pieces, consider building your website around highlighting your principles. Lusaka is a simple template that smartly organises the text on the homepage to make a strong impression. The full-bleed lead photograph grabs immediate attention and there’s room to add a sentence to introduce your brand ethos. As the viewer scrolls, the following sections have room to add many paragraphs where you can tease some of your core principles and include quotes from previous clients and a contact form.

Lusaka is a highly-professional template that is serious and well-organised but still maintains the lightness and modernity of a dynamically-designed website. It’s a great template for starting small and building larger later with separate pages to highlight team members and a company blog.

If you have a large social media following, you might anticipate that most of your audience will be looking at your page through a smartphone. While all of Squarespace’s templates offer dynamic resizing for mobile viewers, Brine is the most versatile, as it allows you to make special customisation tweaks just for a mobile audience. This way you can design two separate experiences for those who arrive on their desktop and those who find you on their phone.

It’s also a beautiful template, with a parallax scroll header photo followed by different a series of sections that can handle a lot of text, photographs, and links to project pages. Although it’s designed for an online shopping experience, this can be disabled by deleting the shopping page.

Designers are storytellers and if you think the best way to explain your work is to blog about it, then Native is a template that puts your stories first. If the mission of your website is to have a landing place for your blog, this is a good template to start with. There are no frills, just a simple template that keeps you on track so you can share your ideas, tips, and design stories with your audience. Although the template automatically sets the homepage to the blog page, designers might consider adjusting this to their About page and let the viewer click-through to the blog feed on their own.  

Let your roster of clients speak for itself with Beaumont. This template lets you display all your projects evenly with a basic two-column structure that allows each link to shine. After you’ve drawn the viewer in with your impressive CV, they can explore your About and Contact pages in the top navigation or click through the individual project page where you can expand on your work using text and photo features. There’s still room to add more information, like a short bio or contact form, at the end of the homepage. However, this template works best if you aren’t trying to fit in too much text at the end.