Dado House painter website template
Dado is for house painters and decorating firms who never want a visitor to hunt for them. The home page runs your services, testimonials and finished rooms down one side, and your phone number with a map, opening hours, a quick-question form and this season's offer down the other.
Who Dado is for
Built for these, and tested against them.
- Home decorating firm offering interior painting, wallpaper hanging and colour consultations
- House painter who wants the phone number, opening hours and a quick-question form beside the home page content
- Decorator running a seasonal offer on multi-room bookings
- Cheerful, bright yellow painting company with a wall of finished rooms
- Wallpaper hanger and paint colour consultant for homeowners
- Kitchen cabinet repaint and trim specialist with a journal of how-to articles
- Interior and exterior house painters who write about prep, colour choice and the seasons
What’s included
Everything below ships with the template, already filled in.
- Pages
- 6 pages, written and laid out
- Grows with you
- 8 project entries at /work/, 5 post entries at /journal/ — add one and its index and detail page both update
- Enquiries
- A working form — messages land in your Sitelas inbox
- Fonts
- Poppins and Lato · light theme
- Everywhere
- Built and checked at phone, tablet and desktop widths
- Yours to change
- Every colour, word and photograph — in the editor or by asking an AI agent
Build Dado by asking your AI agent
No editor required. The agent writes your copy, swaps the photos and publishes the site.
- 1Connect Sitelas to Claude, ChatGPT or another AI agent that supports MCP. How to connect
- 2Ask for it in plain words: “Build a website for a home decorating firm offering interior painting, wallpaper hanging and colour consultations using the Dado template.”
- 3Open the preview link it sends back, ask for changes, and publish when it reads right.
Then keep changing it from the same chat
- Rewrite the copy“Rewrite every page in a warmer, friendlier voice.”
- Change the design“Make the colours earthier and use a serif for headings.”
- Add or remove pages“Add a Pricing page and remove the Blog.”
- Rearrange sections“Move the testimonials higher and add an FAQ.”
- Swap the photos“Replace the photos with ones that fit my business.”
- Run the site“Show me this week's form messages, then publish.”
Everything here can also be done by hand in the visual editor.
About the Dado template
Built for house painters and decorators
Dado suits a decorating firm that paints rooms, hangs wallpaper and helps people choose colours. The home page puts your work on the left and a column on the right that never makes a visitor hunt for you: your phone number with a map, your hours, a quick-question form and this season's offer.
What's on the site
- Home — a photo slider, your three services, testimonials, a wall of finished rooms, what you paint inside and out, and a call-for-a-quote strip, beside the column of contact cards
- About — what you do, the ten things every room repaint includes, and a call line
- Our process — three steps from colour visit to the last walk-round
- Our work — every finished room, each with its own page
- Journal — articles, each with its own page
- Contact — a map, your phone and email, and a quote request form
What to know
Finished rooms and articles are collections, so you add one and it appears in the wall and the lists. Messages from all three forms land in your Sitelas inbox. The testimonials, the offer, the rooms and the articles are samples to replace.
When to pick something else
Dado is the wrong template for these. Where there is a better one, it is linked.
- Premium decorator wanting a quiet editorial look with serif headlines and curved bands — try Brushline
- Handyman covering plumbing, wiring and carpentry as well as paint — try Spanner
- Repair crew publishing a public price list with online booking — try Jamb
- One-van sole trader without a crew or a portfolio — try Mainstay
- Interior design studio selling schemes and drawings rather than labour — try Whitford
- Paint or wallpaper shop with a checkout — try Stockroom
Free to use · No credit card required
- 1Opens in the editor with the starter content in place
- 2Change the words and pictures to yours
- 3Publish to a sitelas.com address, or your own domain
Key Highlights
Questions about Dado
Can someone ask a quick question without filling in a long form?
Yes. A column on the home page has a three-field question form — name, email and the question — and the footer has a two-field one. The Contact page has the full quote request, which asks what needs painting. Every message lands in your Sitelas inbox.
Can I run a seasonal offer?
Yes. A tile in the home page column shows your offer with its condition written underneath and a button to the quote form, and the footer links to it. Change the wording in the editor or ask your AI agent, or delete the tile if you don't run offers.
Who is Dado for?
Dado is built for a home decorating firm offering interior painting, wallpaper hanging and colour consultations, a house painter who wants the phone number, opening hours and a quick-question form beside the home page content and a decorator running a seasonal offer on multi-room bookings. Not built for premium decorator wanting a quiet editorial look with serif headlines and curved bands — try Brushline instead.
What pages come with Dado?
6 pages, already written and laid out: Home, About us, Our process, Our work, Journal and Contact us. Add, rename or remove pages whenever you like.
Can Claude or ChatGPT build my site from Dado?
Yes. Connect Sitelas to your AI agent and ask for a site that uses Dado. It fills in your details, sends you a preview link, and publishes when you approve. The same chat can keep running the site afterwards.
Can I change Dado without code?
Yes. Click any text, photo or colour to change it in the visual editor, or ask your AI agent to make the change. Nothing is locked.
What does it cost?
Nothing to start, with no trial clock. A free site runs on a sitelas.com address; Pro is $9 a month per site ($90 a year) for your own domain, analytics and more room.
Can I use my own domain?
Yes, on Pro. Point your domain at the site and the SSL certificate is issued and renewed for you.
Make Dado yours
It opens in the editor with every page already written. Change what you want, publish when it reads like you.
Free to use · No credit card required
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