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How we turned a real home into a portfolio, journal and shop for an interior decorator

We built Pintopia.bg as a digital atelier, not a shop window: a look taken straight from the rooms, a site the client grows on her own, and an SEO base for every page.

3roles
portfolio, journal and shop on one site
0templates
an identity built from photos of the home
100%
of pages with meta data, static and dynamic
6services
from strategy to SEO, in one project
The Pintopia.bg homepage with the living room and hotspots on the objects

01 · The brief

One site, three roles and no room for a template

The client is an interior decorator from Ruse with a clear aesthetic: bold colours, vintage finds and rooms where every object has a story. The content comes from one person with limited time each week, so the site had to grow room by room, without every new page becoming a project.

  1. 1

    Portfolio

    Proof of the interior work, shown in real rooms.

  2. 2

    Journal

    Stories about the objects and places, found by search engines and AI assistants.

  3. 3

    Shop

    Handmade and found objects, each with its own origin.

02 · Positioning

A real home instead of stock photos

We chose one clear position: Pintopia is the digital atelier of someone who collects objects, interiors and stories. The proof is the home itself.

Every room is one photo shoot

Shot as it is, with a story: what came first and what was argued about.

Every object has an origin

The portfolio and the shop speak one language, so a product never looks like a catalogue shot.

our living room
our living room
the city kitchen
the city kitchen

03 · Visual identity

A look taken straight from the rooms

The colours, patterns and type were not invented on a blank page. The mustard comes from the sofa, the bordeaux from the walls, the cream from the kitchen light.

Palette

Cream

#FBF3E4

Mustard

#D9A21B

Bordeaux

#6B1E2E

Ink

#3F2C24

Typography

Our living room

and handwriting for the notes

A heavy serif for headlines, soft body text and handwritten accents

Patterns, one per section

Redesign: from neutral to bold

The first version worked, but it didn't look like the rooms. The new one is shaped by hand-picked editorial and boutique references, filtered through the client's home.

The mustard “About Pintopia” sectionCollections as polaroids: rooms and finds

04 · Development

A site that grows without a developer next to it

Finds and posts live in a database, not in hand-built pages. A new room or find is a record, not a project.

  1. 1Photo of a room
  2. 2An object in the room
  3. 3Its story in the journal
  4. 4A product in the shop

A shop ready to open

It is built and waiting for stock. When it opens, no new site is needed.

One photo treatment

Vignette, warm tones and light film grain, so every room reads as one series.

A fast cycle

Changes go straight into the code and are live within minutes.

05 · SEO and AI visibility

A beautiful site that search engines understand

Design brings in the people, structure brings in Google and the AI assistants. We built both from day one.

Meta data everywhere

Titles and descriptions for every static page and templates for every dynamic one, with one brand name.

Text the bots can read

Pages are rendered on the server, so Google and AI assistants see the full text without waiting for JavaScript.

Content that answers searches

The journal explains where the objects come from, and structured data tells Google who is behind the site.

06 · Content

One photo shoot, content for several channels

Every new room brings material at once: a page on the site, journal posts, finds and social posts.

“Find of the week” is the reason to come back, and each product's “Story” explains why the object is there.

the bedroom
the bedroom

find of the week

Ruse 7000

07 · The result

The client recognised herself in the site

A happy client

The new look was met with delight at the very first showing.

Rooms that tell stories

The hotspots on the photos are live: every object leads to its story.

A base for growth

An SEO base, server rendering and a ready shop: the site is set to be found and to sell with every new room.

„Woooooow, the site is top“

Pintopia.bg

Stack

  • React + TanStack Start
  • Server rendering
  • Tailwind CSS
  • Supabase
  • Lovable
  • GitHub

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