// Case study
Armfield Builders
A ground-up rebuild for a father-and-son custom home builder in Lexington, NC — 25+ years and 140 projects finally represented online the way the work deserves.

- Location
- Lexington, NC
- Engagement
- Full rebuild, self-directed
- Services
- Websites
- Stack
- Astro · SCSS · Cloudflare Pages
- Timeline
- 2026
- Status
- Live
Where they started
Armfield Builders is a real, established shop — David and Matthew Armfield, father and son, 25-plus years and 140 projects in Davidson County. That kind of track record is rare, and it wasn’t showing up anywhere online. The existing site undersold the business: dated, generic, and not built to carry the weight of two-plus decades of real work.
We know this one from the inside — it’s not a client engagement, it’s the family business, run through the same process we use for our own.
How we approached it
A builder’s site has one job: make a homeowner believe this crew can be trusted with the biggest purchase of their life. That trust comes from specifics — real projects, real numbers, real people — not stock photography and a contact form.
- Lead with the real portfolio. Six real projects, identified by sheet number rather than client name or street, per Armfield’s own confidentiality practice — presented like what they actually are, a set of finished jobs, not a generic gallery.
- Borrow the trade’s own visual language. The logo’s roofline became a signature stroke-drawn line motif, reused for icons, dividers, and the portfolio index — treated like a construction drawing set (sheet numbers and all) instead of a template grid.
- Make the site work as hard as the crew does. Full SEO and structured data so search engines and AI answer engines alike understand exactly who Armfield Builders is and where they build.
What we built
- A fast, static site in Astro and SCSS — zero JS by default, nothing for David and Matthew to maintain.
- A brand system built around the real logo and a real navy-and-brick palette, with the elevation-line motif as the one deliberate signature choice.
- A project index for all six homes, each with its own page, photos, and story.
- A contact form with a real backend — a Cloudflare Pages Function relaying to Mailgun, spam-filtered with a honeypot field, so a lead lands in an inbox instead of a void.
- A full SEO and GEO pass: sitemap, canonical URLs, OG/Twitter tags,
HomeAndConstructionBusinessand per-project JSON-LD, and anllms.txt— all sourced from one file of business facts so nothing drifts out of sync. - A design audit pass, fixing real accessibility issues before launch: low-contrast label text, an inaccessible slider control, and a mobile nav rebuilt as a proper off-canvas menu.
Where it stands
The site is live at armfieldbuilders.com — every page, the contact form, and the full SEO layer are in place. Every page is already instrumented to track what matters — quote submissions and calls — from day one.
Pinned up for review

Sheet index — the project portfolio

About — David and Matthew

Start a project — the contact form
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