Cinematic websites for local businesses
Local Studios Websites rebuilds the website you have, or builds you a brand new one, to the standard agencies quote thousands for. Restaurants, salons, garages, shops: a film of your own instead of stock photos, booking wired straight to your phone, live on your own domain. From £495: half up front, the rest on completion.
Websites from £495. First draft in 24 hours.
The maths
The expensive part is every customer who finds you tonight, cannot see your work, your menu or your prices, cannot book a chair, a table or a job, and calls the next name on the list. You never hear about them. You just pay for them, every week, in work that went somewhere else.
For most local trades, a handful of new customers covers the whole site. Everything after that is the site working for free: nights, weekends, bank holidays, while you are mid job with your hands full.
That is the whole argument. Not design awards. A phone that rings.
See what £495 buysBuilder fees forever, or four figures once? There is a third road.
Book a review callEvery business picks one of these three roads. Two of them are how you end up paying more for a site you are embarrassed to send people to.
| DIY builder | Typical agency | Local Studios Websites | |
|---|---|---|---|
| What it costs | £10 to £35 a month on the builders' own price lists: £120 to £430 a year, every year | £1,500 to £5,000 is the typical UK small business range in published 2026 price guides, and London is often more | From £495, once: half up front, half on completion, and unlimited changes for four weeks |
| Who builds it | You, on your weekends | Their team, after the sales call | The studio behind the five sites on this page |
| The film | Stock photos | Sometimes, priced on top | Generated for your brand, included |
| Booking and orders | Bolt on widgets | Depends on the package | Wired in: WhatsApp, forms, menus or your existing diary |
| How long | However long you last | Typically weeks of meetings | First draft in 24 hours, finished site in days |
What it costs
Who builds it
The film
Booking and orders
How long
Builder figures come from the builders' own published plan prices and agency figures from UK website cost guides, both checked September 2026. Your quotes may differ. The right hand column is simply what we do.
Free. You tell us about the business and the one thing the site must get customers to do.
A rebuild of your current site, or a brand new one: the first draft is in your hands within 24 hours of the call, before you commit to anything.
Happy with the direction? Half of £495 books the build. The rest only when it is done.
Four weeks of unlimited changes after delivery, included, until it reads like your business.
The proof
Real trades, real bookings, real films, open on your phone right now. Start with Salty Descents: a business that already had a website and got it rebuilt end to end. Same information, their own photographs, a different class of site.
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Made for your trade
The machine is the same for every trade: a film of your world, the one action your customer needs, and a page that loads before they change their mind.
Restaurants and cafes · Barbers and salons · Clinics and studios · Garages and trades · Shops and makers · Coaches and consultants
The price
from £495
half up front, half on completion
Quoted before it starts. Films, extra pages and ongoing changes agreed up front. The price never surprises you.
Your existing website rebuilt way better, or a brand new one
A film generated for your brand instead of stock photos
Booking or enquiries wired to your phone
Every enquiry saved to the site's own database, so nothing is lost
Built for phones first, because that is where customers are
Your own domain connected
Set up to be found on search from day one
Shaped with you until it reads like your business
Unlimited rounds of changes for four weeks after delivery
Book a review callHalf up front, the rest only when it is done. A working draft on your own phone before anything goes live. Your say so on every word. And after delivery, unlimited rounds of changes for four weeks, until it reads like your business.
Still reading? The first draft costs nothing and lands in 24 hours.
Book a review callStraight answers
Published UK price guides put a typical agency built small business site between £1,500 and £5,000. That money buys their office, their account manager and their six week discovery phase. Here it buys a small studio with a fast pipeline and the films. The five sites on this page are the evidence.
Scope. £495 is the floor and it buys your existing site rebuilt properly, or a new one built from scratch. More pages, more films and ongoing changes cost more, and every one of them is quoted before any work starts. The catch is that there is no small print, which some people find suspicious.
Your first draft is ready within 24 hours of the review call. You are not booked into a discovery workshop. You talk, we build, and the next day you open the draft on your phone.
Then it does not go live. You see a working draft first and we shape it together until it reads like your shop. Nothing is published without your say so.
Open it on your phone and watch yourself hesitate. If it loads slowly, looks like a template or hides the booking button, it is quietly costing you work. Salty Descents on the work page is exactly this job: an existing site rebuilt end to end, every course, price and photograph kept, and none of it reads like a template any more. Send yours over and you will get a straight answer either way.
Book a free review call, tell us what the business does, and hold your first draft within 24 hours. Half up front only when you say go.