If you've visited johnsonhomerestore.com in the last 24 hours, you saw a completely different site. That's because I tore the old one down and rebuilt it from the ground up.
The previous site was on Ionos. Slow. Clunky. The kind of site where you click a link and watch the spinner and wonder if the page is ever going to load. I hated sending people to it. When someone asks "do you have a website?" and you hesitate before answering — that's a problem.
So I rebuilt it.
What changed
The new site runs on Astro — a modern static site framework — deployed on Cloudflare Pages. No WordPress. No page builder. No database. Just clean HTML and CSS that loads faster than you can blink.
Here's what it does now:
- Shows the work first. The Dillingham Esprit highboy, the Heywood Wakefield wishbone table, the outdoor patio set — real projects, real before-and-afters. Not stock photos. Not clip art of a hammer.
- Explains what I actually do. Custom toner work. Structural repair you can't see. Hand-rubbed finishes. Mid-century restoration for Heywood Wakefield, Dillingham, Broyhill Brasilia — the pieces that deserve better than a can of Minwax.
- Covers the home repair side. People find me for the restoration, then they ask what else I can do. Turns out: a lot. Fifteen years of fine home repair across DFW — Dallas, Oak Cliff, Park Cities, Lakewood, Plano, Richardson, Fort Worth.
- Works on a phone. The old site was barely usable on mobile. The new one was built mobile-first.
Why it matters
I'm a craftsman. I spend hours matching a sixty-year-old finish by hand. I'm not going to send people to a website that looks like it was built in 2014.
The site is the first impression. Before anyone sees my shop, before they see my hands on their grandmother's dresser, they see the website. It should feel the same way my work feels — considered, well-built, no shortcuts.
That's what it does now.
If you've got a piece that needs restoration — or a punch list that needs a craftsman, not a handyman — the new site has everything you need: johnsonhomerestore.com