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DesignBricks A 4Property Digital studio

Designed sharp.
Built smart.

Smart WordPress websites that hit real business objectives — without a single compromise on design.

Our sister team at 4property.com drives vendor enquiries in a property market at crisis levels. If our sites work there — they will work for yours.
↳ Three concepts · no charge · before any quote
In live build · Cill Dara Golf Club

200 years of heritage,
refreshed online.

A members’ club working through our three-mockup process right now — booking, society enquiries and a members area. Exactly like this page.

200+
Live WordPress sites under our care, across Ireland
3
Free homepage mockups — before any commitment to quote
18yrs
In WordPress, with deep core-contributor credentials in-house
WP7
Stack ready for the May 2026 WordPress release
The point of difference

Three mockups.
Before any quote.

Most studios show you a portfolio and ask you to imagine your site. We show you three real homepage mockups of your site — three distinct directions — before money is on the table.

No retainer. No deposit. No pitch deck. You react to actual designs, pick a direction (or a hybrid), and only then do we talk scope and price.

STEP 02The page you’re reading right now is itself the output of step 02 — a working mockup for our own studio site. Every client gets the same treatment.

V1 / 01
The
Workshop
DIRECTION A · BOLD
V2 / 02
The
Studio
DIRECTION B · PICKED
V3 / 03
The Craft
House
DIRECTION C · EDITORIAL
What we do
Four commitments. The order matters — design first, smarts second, market intelligence third, platform depth fourth.

Smart sites that look the part.

There is no shortage of agencies that will hand you a pretty website that does nothing. Or a clever site that looks like a database. We don’t think you should have to choose.

01 / DESIGN

No design compromise.

Every site we build is led by design — your brand, your audience, your tone. Functionality follows form, not the other way round. If it looks generic, we haven’t done our job.

Three mockups, before any quote
02 / SMART

Built around business objectives.

A website isn’t a brochure. Every page is briefed against a measurable outcome — enquiries, bookings, members, donations. Our 4AI assistant and 4Nurture automation are built in, not bolted on.

4AI + 4Nurture included
03 / MARKET

Battle-tested in property.

We cut our teeth at 4property.com, where our sites drive vendor enquiries in a market at crisis levels. The discipline of selling homes when there’s almost no stock left has sharpened our work.

Powering 4property.com
04 / PLATFORM

WordPress, at the source.

Every DesignBricks site is built on SuperNova — our own WordPress theme — and looked after by a team that includes a WordPress.org Core Contributor. WordPress 7 dropped this month; our stack was ready in beta.

SuperNova theme · WP 7 ready
Where we came from

Built in the toughest property market in Europe.

DesignBricks is a studio inside 4Property Digital — the team that builds and runs digital infrastructure for over 200 Irish estate agents, including the platforms behind a meaningful share of all residential transactions in the country.

Right now, Irish residential stock is at historic lows and demand at historic highs. Our sites have to convince homeowners to sell into a market where there is almost nothing to buy — and our clients are still hitting their numbers. That discipline shows up in everything we do elsewhere.

Vendor enquiries up
Across our managed estate-agent portfolio, year-on-year — in a market where listings are at multi-decade lows.
Visit 4property.com →
200+
Agency sites under care
↳ Vendor enquiries · 12-mo trend
JAN 25↑ CRISIS MARKETDEC 25
How we work
Four steps. Step two is the unusual one — and what most clients pick us for.

Three real designs before we talk price.

Hiring a web studio shouldn’t be a leap of faith. By the time we send a quote, you’ve already chosen which direction you want — from three concepts that are yours to keep.

01 / DISCOVERY
30 MINS · ONE CALL

Tell us about your business.

What it does, who it serves, what the site needs to deliver. No pitch deck — just a conversation. We listen for the brief.

02 / MOCKUPS
7–10 DAYS · NO CHARGE

Three concepts. Free.

Three real homepage mockups — three directions — for your business. React to actual designs, including hybrids (“V2’s palette with V1’s layout” is a perfect answer).

Where most won’t go
03 / SCOPE & QUOTE
3–5 DAYS

Sitemap and fixed quote.

Once a direction is chosen, we draft the full sitemap and an itemised fixed-price quote. Nothing vague, nothing surprise.

04 / BUILD
3–6 WEEKS

Build, launch, look after.

Built on SuperNova, launched on schedule, then supported on a monthly retainer. No surprises post-launch either.

Selected work
A short selection across sectors. Names are real; thumbnails will be replaced with live screenshots in the next round.

A studio is the work it produces.

Projects across sport, education, professional services and health — built outside the property sector, although the studio’s discipline came from it.

Mellon Educate website
Education · International Charity

Mellon Educate

An international education charity building and renovating schools across Southern Africa. The site needed to inspire volunteers, win donors and report impact — without overwhelming a mission-driven audience.

Callery Wealth Management website
Finance · Wealth Management

Callery Wealth Management

A regulated Dublin financial planner guiding clients through every life stage. The site builds trust before the first meeting — structured, calm and clear about what to expect.

Smith Property website
Property · Estate Agency

Smith Property

Four decades of local knowledge in Cavan. A clean, property-first site that puts listings front and centre and drives enquiries from buyers and landlords alike.

Wendy Quinn Therapy website
Health · Psychotherapy

Wendy Quinn Therapy

A Dublin psychotherapist offering integrative counselling and hypnotherapy. The site was designed to feel safe — warm, considered typography with space to breathe and a tone that meets people where they are.

Carey Solicitors website
Legal · Solicitors

Carey Solicitors

A Clondalkin law firm covering personal injury, family law, property and more. Straightforward navigation for people in difficult moments — every page designed to reduce friction and encourage contact.

Smart sites · 4AI & 4Nurture

An assistant that doesn’t switch off at five.

Most enquiries arrive in the evening or at the weekend. 4AI handles the first conversation — answers questions, qualifies the brief, holds attention. 4Nurture follows up automatically. Both come built into every DesignBricks site, not bolted on for an extra licence fee.

  • Trained on your business, tone and services — not a generic chatbot
  • Captures enquiries 24/7; warm leads land in your inbox or CRM by morning
  • Automated follow-up via email, SMS and WhatsApp on the right cadence
  • Built in. No additional licence cost. No third-party seat fees.
AI
Boutique Hotel · Live SATURDAY · 22:47
Hi — any availability for two rooms next weekend? Anniversary trip.VISITOR · 22:47
Lovely — congratulations. Two superior rooms available Friday through Sunday. Shall I check restaurant availability for Saturday evening too?4AI · 22:47
Yes please. And is the spa open Sunday morning?VISITOR · 22:48
It is — 7am to 9pm both days. I’ll hold both rooms and a 7:30pm table, and pass everything to front desk to confirm with you in the morning.4AI · 22:48
illustrative · on supernovaBooking captured
The team
A studio is its disciplines, not its names. Six capabilities, all in-house.

A small team with unusual depth.

Years of building inside the Irish property sector forced us to develop disciplines most agencies don’t bother with — research, data, content systems, integrations. We brought all of them to DesignBricks.

01 / WORDPRESS

Development

Every site is built on SuperNova, our in-house WordPress theme, and tested against every WordPress release before it ships. We don’t just use the platform — we contribute to it.

WordPress 7 ready SuperNova theme Core contributor
Our Lead Technical WordPress Developer, Ciprian Popescu, is a WordPress.org Core Contributor — verifiable on profiles.wordpress.org.
02 / MARKETING

Digital Marketing

SEO, Google Ads, Meta campaigns, organic social and content strategy — handled in-house by people who run real campaigns, not just dashboards.

SEO Google Ads Social Content
03 / PUBLISHING

Editorial & Content

Copy, content systems, editorial design, brochures and brand voice work. Long-form sits comfortably alongside short.

Copywriting Editorial Brand voice Print
04 / TECHNICAL

Technical & Database

Integrations, APIs, custom database work and the unglamorous plumbing that lets a site do something genuinely useful. Born of years inside property data.

Integrations APIs Databases Automation
05 / RESEARCH

Research & Insights

Audience research, market analysis and reporting — drawn from the same discipline that powers 4property.com’s market intelligence work.

Audience research Market analysis Reporting
06 / SUPPORT

Hosting & Care

Hosting, maintenance, security, monthly updates and a real Dublin-based support team to talk to. The bit most agencies hand off — we don’t.

Managed hosting SSL & security Maintenance Dublin support
Who we work for
Estate agents are served by our sister brand at 4property.com. Everything else, we welcome.

Considered briefs from considered businesses.

We work with organisations where reputation matters and the audience deserves a real experience — clubs, schools, professional firms, clinics, charities, hotels and the specialist briefs that don’t fit a category.

01
Sports clubs & associations
Golf, GAA, rugby, sailing and rowing clubs; governing bodies. Member areas, fixtures, bookings, society enquiries.
02
Schools & education
Primary, post-primary and further education. Calendars, parent communications, enrolment journeys, news systems.
03
Professional services
Solicitors, accountants, wealth managers, surveyors and consultancies. Reputation-led sites that earn enquiries before the form.
04
Health & wellness
Clinics, practices, counselling, allied health. Online booking, intake forms, recall systems, GDPR-aware.
05
Hospitality & venues
Hotels, restaurants and event venues looking to reduce OTA dependency and drive direct enquiries.
06
Charities & community
Donations, membership, events and storytelling for trusts and not-for-profits of every size.
07
Local SMEs & trades
Service businesses, retail and trade companies. Sites that pull their weight in the local market.
08
Specialist briefs
Anything that doesn’t fit a category — directories, memberships, oddities. The interesting briefs are welcome here.
In their words
Placeholder copy. Real verbatims to be harvested once direction is signed off.

Quietly, the work speaks for itself.

Three mockups before we spent a euro. We knew exactly what we were buying — and they picked up on the tone of our club from a single conversation.

Sample sports clubMember-led organisation · Leinster Placeholder

A small studio that punches above its weight. The technical depth is genuine, the design instinct is calm. A pleasure to deal with.

Sample hotelHospitality · West of Ireland Placeholder

The AI assistant has paid for the website three times over. Enquiries no longer wait until Monday morning to be handled.

Sample practiceHealth & wellness · Dublin Placeholder
Begin the conversation

Three mockups.
Yours, free.

Spend 30 minutes telling us about your business. We come back with three real homepage concepts you can react to — three directions, three palettes, three voices. Then, and only then, we talk price.

WhatsApp086 839 3767 · fastest reply
Emailjon@designbricks.ie
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DesignBricks

A small WordPress studio inside 4Property Digital. We make smart, beautifully-designed websites that hit real business objectives — built on SuperNova, our in-house theme. Ready for WordPress 7.

In estate agency? Our sister brand 4property.com is dedicated to your sector. Visit them directly.
Studio
  • About
  • The team
  • SuperNova theme
  • WordPress credentials
Work
  • Selected projects
  • Sectors
  • Process
  • Three free mockups
Contact
  • 086 839 3767
  • jon@designbricks.ie
  • Book a call
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