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A name with a real story behind it.

Melted House Digital is a creative web studio rooted in Scotland and working without borders, for clients across the UK and North America. The name comes from one summer in 1989, and it’s the reason we take building your website so seriously.

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Why “Melted House”?

Our founder’s family home, and what it taught us about getting things right. Scroll on.

Summer 1989

The Kelly family home.

Before there was a studio, there was a house: the home our founder, Brian Kelly, shared with his family.

In the summer of 1989, Brian’s dad accidentally burned it to the ground.

Afterwards

The clothes they stood in.

The family were left with the clothes they had on and the money in their pockets. Everything else was gone.

Locally

“The Melted House.”

From then on, that’s what it was known as locally. The name stuck.

Shortly afterwards

Nobody was hurt.

That’s the part that matters most. The house was restored to its original condition shortly afterwards, and it’s still the Kelly family home today.

And in business

Why it’s our name.

A house fire changes a family’s life. A website is a smaller thing, but it can change a business too.

Getting a website right, first time or as a redevelopment, can be a life-changing event in business. That’s what our name is there to remind us.

Founder & Managing Director

Brian Kelly.

Brian has been building websites since he picked up his first HTML book in 2002. He spent the years that followed working in various agencies and companies, learning the craft from the inside.

He also learned what he didn’t want to be. Too many of those agencies didn’t particularly care about their customers: it was about the money, or the next sale.

Melted House began trading in 2016 to do it the other way round. We’d rather build a long-lasting relationship with a client than chase a quick one.

1989
The Melted House.
A family home lost and rebuilt, and a name that stuck.
2002
First HTML book.
Producing websites ever since.
Agency years
Learning the trade.
Various agencies and companies, and too often the customer came second.
2016
Melted House begins trading.
The name from 1989 goes over the door of a new web studio.
Today
Melted House Digital.
Websites for sole traders to corporations, from Scotland to North America.

The money and the next sale come second. We would rather know your business for years than for one launch, so we build every site to last and we stick around after it goes live.

Melted House Digital · Without borders

How we work, in practice.

Simple and transparent, start to finish. No jargon, no black boxes, no hard sell.

Listen first

Your brief, then an accurate quote.

Every project is different. Send us your brief, strategy or RFP and we’ll come back with an accurate cost and timescale, not a guess.

Custom built

Built around you.

Every site is designed around your business, your audience and your goals.

One contact

One point of contact.

Design, SEO, social and email, plus our network of graphic designers, videographers and photographers.

After launch

We stick around, and it’s yours.

Care plans keep your site up to date, secure and virus-free, with managed UK hosting available as an optional extra. Once the design and development fee is settled, the website is 100% yours. No catches.

We focus on WordPress. Platforms and partners we build with

Got a project? Let’s melt the hard bits.

Tell us what you need. We’ll give you a straight answer and an accurate cost and timescale, whatever the size of your business and wherever it is. And if we’re not the right fit, we’ll point you to someone who is.

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01236 338016 hello@meltedhouse.co.uk4 Main Road, Condorrat, Cumbernauld G67 4BS