Launch · Annapolis Valley, NS

Tipple Custom Builds is live.

A local crew that frames houses from the footings up now has a website built the same way: from scratch, by hand, with nothing on it they would not say on site.

October 8, 2026 3 min read 1 launch

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Launch cover: Tipple Custom Builds, now live. The dark Tipple homepage with the headline We build it the right way.

This week Tipple Custom Builds went live on its own domain. Tipple is a renovation and custom-home crew in the Annapolis Valley, and their brief was the kind we like best: make it look like us, make it fast, and do not make it look like every other contractor site.

No templates, no page builders. Every line hand-coded, styled around the crew and their work, and hosted by us.

Screenshot of the Tipple Custom Builds homepage: a dark, full-bleed photo of a house being framed, with the headline We build it the right way.

A site that feels like the job site

Tipple Custom Builds is a local crew in the Annapolis Valley taking on renovations and custom homes from the footings up. Their website had to feel like them: direct, well-made, no fluff.

So it opens on a real frame going up, not a stock photo. Dark, cream type over the crew's own job-site photography, with one oversized headline that says exactly what they do: we build it the right way.

Real framing photos and one headline that says it all. Nothing on the page they would not say on site.

The Tipple Custom Builds homepage with its Work, Gallery, Crew, Services and Contact navigation.

Walk the build, meet the crew

The Work page walks a build stage by stage: ground, frame, roof, finish, keys. It is how Bradley explains a project to a client across a kitchen table, so it is how the site explains it too.

The Crew page introduces every carpenter by name and trade, because on a job like this you want to know who is swinging the hammer. Add a gallery of finished rooms, a plain-language Services page, and a contact form that lands straight in Bradley's inbox, all hand-coded, fast and hosted by us on their own domain.

Ground, frame, roof, finish, keys. A crew page with every name on it.

Visit tipplecustombuilds.ca →

The short version

What a builder's site should do.

Use the real photos. A frame going up beats a stock photo of a hard hat every time.
Explain it like you would in person. The build walkthrough mirrors how the owner talks to clients.
Name the crew. People hire people. The Crew page is the most human page on the site.

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