Showing off your best work
Capture and upload high-quality photos of completed projects. Six minimum, varied styles, before/after pairs where you have them. Captions help.
Your project gallery is what customers see when they're trying to decide whether to invite you. The article describes how to make it work.
What to include
- At least six projects. This is the floor; more is better if you have them.
- Varied styles and room types. A gallery of six identical bathrooms says less than six different rooms.
- Recent work. The last 12–24 months carries more weight than older. Refresh the gallery as projects complete.
- High-resolution photos. Crisp, well-lit, unfiltered. Phone photos work if the light is good.
- Before/after pairs where you have them. Renovation is a transformation; showing both ends tells the story.
- Captions. A sentence per photo on what you did, where, and what was distinctive. Captions matter; bare image gallery says less than image + caption.
What to capture during a project
If you're not used to photographing your own projects, build it into the rhythm:
- Before — strip-out condition. Take photos of the original room before demolition.
- Mid-build — the structural moment. First-fix or second-fix snapshots.
- End — the finished room. Multiple angles, with appropriate light. Consider booking a professional photographer for big projects; the photos pay back across the platform.
Permission
Get permission from the customer before publishing photos of their home. Most customers are happy to be photographed (without their personal items in shot, ideally) as long as you've asked. The Beams contract you sign with each customer covers the principle.
What this means for you
A strong gallery is one of the most useful things you can do for your profile. Customers spend more time on photos than on words. Six bad photos get fewer leads than three excellent ones; six excellent ones get more than the bare minimum.
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