Who can rebuild an interior design website that's on Squarespace or Showit?

It depends on whether you stay. To keep the platform, hire a Squarespace Expert or a Showit Design Partner. To leave, you need someone who rebuilds the site and sends every old address to its new page, because neither platform lets you take the design with you. Many sites don't need to leave at all.

We build the second kind, so read this knowing where we stand.

Do you need to leave at all?

Often not. A site can look like a template because of its design and its photographs, and a new platform fixes neither. Start with the four checks in our builder comparison: open your site on your phone, on mobile data, and look at the first photograph, the project text, the form and the people who enquire. If all four hold, stay.

If you stay and want it redesigned, both platforms point you to people. Squarespace has Squarespace Marketplace¹, with professionals it calls Squarespace Experts. Showit has a network of Design Partners².

Leaving makes sense when your work is published, your clients come from more than one city or country, and the site shows less than the projects deserve.

What comes with you when you leave?

Less than you might hope. We read each platform's own help pages on 7 November 2026.

Wix is stricter still. Its help page⁸ says a site "must run on Wix's servers".

So plan to rebuild, not to convert. Treat the old site as the list of what must exist on the new one. For the photographs, go back to your photographer's files, not copies from the old site. Those may be smaller than your originals.

What has to happen in a move?

Six steps, in this order.

1. List every address on the old site. Project pages, blog posts, PDFs. Google calls this mapping old URLs to new ones⁹, and says it's important. Everything after depends on this list.
2. Build the new site. Give each project its place, year and scope, in words.
3. Redirect each old address to its new page, permanently. Google says permanent redirects don't cause a loss in PageRank, and advises keeping them for at least a year.
4. Move the domain. If your email runs on the same domain, copy its settings across first, or your email can stop. On Squarespace, a new provider may refuse a transfer if the domain was bought or moved in the last 60 days, or if its contact details have just changed.
5. Keep the old subscription until the new site is checked. Transferring a Squarespace domain doesn't cancel the site, so you decide when that happens.
6. Expect a wobble. Google says a small to medium-sized site can take a few weeks for most pages to move, with temporary changes in ranking. We haven't measured what a move does to a studio's place in AI answers, so nobody should promise you that part.

What do AI answers say about this?

Mostly the same: check before you leave, and ask about the addresses.

On 6 November 2026 we asked ChatGPT, with web search on, and Perplexity who could rebuild a template-looking Squarespace site and who could move a studio off Showit. That was one question each, asked once per tool. ChatGPT was told the question came from Amsterdam. Four answers from one day is a small sample.

On Squarespace, ChatGPT said "Don't assume you need to leave Squarespace", and Perplexity said "A full rebuild may not be necessary". On Showit, ChatGPT said a proposal should cover "every existing URL and redirect, and any blog content". Perplexity said to ask for a plan covering "your pages, blog, and search rankings".

All four named firms. None named fioel, and we don't name the firms that came up. Perplexity pointed out that one project it cited had moved a client to Showit, not off it. So open the live work before you believe a name.

What should you ask whoever does the move?

Start with the six questions for any web designer. Then add these:

1. Can I see the list of old addresses and where each one goes?
2. Who sets up the redirects, and how long do they stay?
3. Who moves the words, and do my photographs come from the original files?
4. Who changes the domain settings, and what happens to my email that day?
5. How do I add a new project afterwards?

How does this work with fioel?

We don't work inside Squarespace or Showit. We build every site by hand in code, with no rented template underneath. fioel is in Amsterdam, and we work with interior studios worldwide, online.

The new site goes live on the web address you already have, and every old page address sends visitors on to its new page. We write each project with its place, year and scope, and export the photographs again from the originals. The Page starts at €2,000 excl. VAT, one fixed price agreed before any work starts.

There is a trade. You give up the builder where you edit every page yourself. On Care you send us the photographs and notes for a new project, and we add it. And the site is yours: if you stop the plan, with one month's notice, we hand it over and help move it to your own hosting.

The first step is a 15-minute call, and you show us your current site. It is mainly about whether a move makes sense for your studio at all. If you want to see whether clients find you today, run the free AI check first.