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MERRILL DIGITALSYSTEMS · UTAH

CASE STUDY · INTERIOR DESIGN & REMODELING

Off Wix, onto code they own.

BK Toolbox Custom Home Designs does interiors and remodels across Utah. Their whole presence was one templated Wix page, on a platform that held the keys to their own domain. I moved all of it — domain, email, and site — onto a custom platform they own outright, built around the two service lines they actually sell.

BK Toolbox Custom Home Designs website — custom-coded interior design and remodeling site built by Merrill Digital Systems
CLIENT
BK Toolbox Custom Home Designs
INDUSTRY
Interior design & remodeling
SCOPE
Wix migration, custom site, local SEO
STATUS
Live at bktoolbox.com

01THE PROBLEM

BK Toolbox owned bktoolbox.com, but the domain, the email, and the site all lived inside Wix. A single generic page had to cover two very different service lines — interior design and home remodeling — and the whole presence stopped wherever the template stopped.

Image alt text was still raw iPhone filenames. There was no local targeting anywhere, so a homeowner two cities over searching for a remodeler never saw them. And every month the site stayed up, the bill went to a platform that could change the terms whenever it wanted.

For a business whose entire pitch is craftsmanship and attention to detail, the site was arguing the other side.

02WHAT GOT BUILT

The whole migration, not just the site

Domain, Google Workspace email, and the website moved off Wix together, onto a VPS they manage. Nothing was left behind and no email bounced in transit.

Two service lines, two paths

Interior design and remodeling each got their own overview, portfolio, and quote flow — instead of sharing one page that sold neither of them well.

City pages that name the city

Local landing pages for the Utah markets they actually work in, so a search that ends in a phone call has somewhere specific to land.

Alt text written by a person

Every image described in words a human would use. IMG_3995.heic tells Google nothing and a screen reader even less.

Technical SEO shipped with the build

Meta descriptions, canonical tags, Open Graph and Twitter cards, all set at launch — not bolted on months later when the traffic doesn't show up.

No subscription to stay online

The site runs on hosting in their name. If they never speak to me again, it keeps working, and nobody can switch it off but them.

BUILT WITHNext.jsSelf-managed VPSLocal SEOTwo service linesFull ownership

03THE RESULT

100

SEO SCORE

Google PageSpeed Insights, run against the live site. Not a staging build with the images stripped out.

99

PERFORMANCE

Desktop, on an image-heavy portfolio. Photos are the product in this trade, so they had to load fast rather than load later.

Owned

DOMAIN, EMAIL, HOSTING

All three in their name on final payment. No license to renew, no plan to keep paying, nothing held hostage.

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RESPONSE TIME
Within 24 hours
BASED
West Jordan, UT · Remote

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