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House on the Hill Design

Interior designer · Fendalton, Christchurch

What your customers see when they look for you, and where that puts you among 111 Christchurch interior designers.

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Checked12 October 2026
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House on the Hill Design

Interior designer · Fendalton, Christchurch

Where you stand#55of 111 interior designers
Overall health5.1/10across the eight areas

Going well

05Facebook page8.903Map positions8.407Google search and traffic6.4

Where we can help

02Reviews4.504Listings and social3.001Google listing2.508Opening hours2.106Your website-
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What AI tells people about you

House on the Hill Design is a Christchurch interior design studio run from a home studio in Riccarton. Jackie creates bespoke home décor items and a range of stitchery and quilting patterns, and she runs craft workshops. Visits are by arrangement; customers can message to book a time at the Riccarton studio.

House on the Hill Design is a Christchurch-based interior design studio operating from a home studio in Riccarton. Jackie produces bespoke home décor pieces and maintains a focus on hand-designed items created in a small studio setting. The studio name and location reflect a local, home-based practice where clients are asked to message to arrange visits.

The studio offers a range of services centred on bespoke home décor and pattern design. Available offerings include uniquely designed painted houses and trinkets, stitchery and quilting patterns, and craft classes that teach practical techniques. Website material and SEO notes describe a focus on careful design and hand-crafted products tailored to home decoration needs.

Customers tend to highlight the collectible nature of Jackie's painted houses and trinkets and report positive experiences with the studio's craft classes. Reviews also note repeat use of Jackie's colour consulting services, with clients commenting on knowledgeable advice. These themes suggest an emphasis on hands-on workshops, creative decorative items, and practical colour guidance.

Locally, House on the Hill Design presents as a small-scale, workshop-oriented interior design and craft studio in Riccarton. The combination of handcrafted décor, stitchery and quilting patterns, teaching through craft classes, and available colour consulting distinguishes the studio for customers seeking personalised, hand-created home-decoration solutions in Christchurch.

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01Google listingMarketbase business report

Your Google listing

House on the Hill Design shows a low overall health score on Google Business, indicating room for significant improvements. The listing already provides a website link, a claimed status, a title, a phone number and a full address, which helps basic customer access. Key opportunity areas include adding photos, a main image and a logo, and updating the open-for-business status to reassure customers.

Strengths

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    Open statusYour listing shows the business as trading, so customers see accurate availability and Google treats the listing as live.
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    ClaimedYour listing is claimed, so you control what it says, you can reply to reviews, and edits suggested by the public come to you first.
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    NameYour business name is showing on the listing, so a customer searching for you by name finds you, and everything else on the listing hangs off it.

Top three opportunities

  • 1
    Description lengthYour description is far shorter than what most businesses here have written, which means a customer comparing listings gets a line from you and three paragraphs from the business beside you.
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    Main imageYour listing has no main image, so the first picture a customer sees is whichever one Google chose for you.
  • 3
    Photos on the listingYou have no photos on your listing, or close to none, so a customer scrolling past sees a blank where every other business shows their work.
11 checks on your Google listing. You're seeing 6 of them.
2.5Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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5.0 ★★★★★ (1)
Interior designer · Fendalton
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From the business

I work from my home studio in Christchurch. If you wish to come and have a look, message me to arrange a time. Jackie

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02ReviewsMarketbase business report

Your reviews

House on the Hill Design shows a solid overall Google review health of 4.3 out of 10, indicating room for improvement, but there is a strong base of positive sentiment. The most notable findings are a top-10% star rating and a growing but not yet large reviews footprint, alongside no response to reviews to date.

Strengths

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    Star ratingYour rating is among the highest in this market and it does its own selling - a customer sees it before they read anything else.

Top three opportunities

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    Review confidenceRating and review volume together sit well behind this market, which means a customer comparing you has both halves of the picture reading thin.
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    Response rateNone of your reviews have a reply, which means a customer reading them sees your happiest and your angriest customers with nothing from you in between.
  • 3
    Review countYour review count sits well below what buyers here are used to seeing, which means a customer comparing options side by side reads you as the less proven choice.
4 checks on your reviews. You're seeing all of them.
4.5Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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1How far your rating and your review count together can be trusted
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Where you show up on the map

House on the Hill Design shows strong health in Google Maps performance, with an overall health score of 8.4 out of 10 indicating solid visibility for a Christchurch interior design studio. The top opportunities to improve focus on sustaining aggregate visibility and strengthening borough presence to move into the top tier.

Strengths

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Top two opportunities

  • 1
    Maps visibility in your own suburbYou show up in local Maps searches more often than the middle of your suburb, so a customer searching nearby is likely to see you in the first handful.
  • 2
    Maps visibility across the city groupYou turn up across more of the surrounding suburbs than nearly everyone here, so a customer searching well outside your own patch still sees you.
2 checks on your map positions. You're seeing both.
8.4Strong
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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2Top three for "interior decorator" in 4 suburbs, seen in 24
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House on the Hill Design15.0 ★ (1) · Interior designer
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By Design Interiors5.0 ★ (4) · Interior designer
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Lucid Commercial Design5.0 ★ (6) · Interior designer
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Armstrong Interiors Ltd5.0 ★ (13) · Interior designer
Map positionsChristchurch interior designers · 111 businesses
You are #19 for map positions
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Where customers find you

House on the Hill Design shows a health score of 1.9 out of 10, indicating low overall presence for social profiles and directories. The strongest current asset is a very high-trust Facebook profile, which underpins credibility and acts as a foundation for future growth. Key opportunities focus on adding or reviving Instagram, TikTok, and local directory listings to widen reach and trust.

Strengths

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    Having a Facebook page at allWe found your Facebook Profile page, and the trail is strong enough that nobody would question it is yours - it is linked from something you own, or it dominates a search for your name.
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    White Pages ListingWe can see your White Pages Listing listing (https://whitepages.co.nz/house-on-hill-riccarton) found via: Google search results.

Top three opportunities

  • 1
    Instagram ProfileWe could not find an active Instagram Profile profile for your business, so a customer who looks for you there finds nothing.
  • 2
    Tiktok ProfileWe could not find an active TikTok account for your business, so anyone who looks for you there finds nothing.
  • 3
    Yellow ProfileWe could not find an active Yellow Profile listing for your business, which means anyone checking you there finds nothing and moves on to whoever is listed.
17 checks on your listings and social. You're seeing 5 of them.
3.0Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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InstagramNo account found1
TiktokNo account found2
YellowNo listing found3
Listings and socialChristchurch interior designers · 111 businesses
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Your Facebook page

Strengths

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    Where your page link pointsThe link on your page goes to a domain that is yours, so a visitor who came for the photos leaves on your terms and the enquiry lands in your inbox rather than someone else's.
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    A page address you choseThe address on your page carries your business name, so a customer told about you at a barbecue can find the page by typing what they heard.
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    A phone numberA phone number shows on your page, so the person who found you on Facebook before they found your website can ring straight from it.

Top two opportunities

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    Recommendations on your pageYour count sits above the middle of this market, so a visitor reading the page finds enough written by other people to stop needing anything written by you.
  • 2
    People following your pageMore people follow your page than most in this market, which means a post can travel past your own customers when one of them shares it into a local group.
8 checks on your Facebook page. You're seeing 5 of them.
8.9Strong
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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★ 6 reviews · recommended 1
🌐 houseonthehill.co.nz✓
☎ +64 3-348 2361✓
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Facebook pageChristchurch interior designers · 111 businesses
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Your website

House on the Hill Design shows an average on-page SEO health with a 5.6/10, indicating some room for improvement. Strengths include a valid favicon, sufficient page text, a clear title tag, an H1 tag, and an SEO-friendly URL. The most important issues are meta description length and page size under 256KB, plus render-blocking resources that affect speed.

Strengths

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    Domain UniquenessYour web address is yours alone, so everything your site earns - links, mentions, search standing - accumulates under your name and stays with the business.
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    Pages linking to youMore pages link to yours than almost any business in this market - the accumulated result of years of being referred to.
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    Links to your siteMore sites link to you than almost any business in this market, a position built over years and genuinely hard for a competitor to match.

Top three opportunities

  • 1
    Meta descriptionThe summary under your name in search results is either too brief to say anything or long enough that Google cuts it mid-sentence.
  • 2
    The shape of your link profileYour links are piled onto a small number of sites for a profile this size, so they are doing less for you than the count suggests.
  • 3
    Page titleYour home page headline does not fit the space a search result gives it, so a searcher sees either a half-empty line or one that trails off before your name arrives.
23 checks on your website. You're seeing 6 of them.
-Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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✓Pages linking to you
✓Links to your site
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How people find you on Google

House on the Hill Design shows a solid website traffic health with room for improvement. The missed paid traffic signal is the main opportunity, while organic traffic remains steady and above benchmarks. Focus on paid tests and refine keywords to build measurable paid visits, while sustaining ongoing organic activity.

Strengths

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Top three opportunities

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    What that traffic is worthThe search visitors reaching your site are worth less than most businesses here, which means the work coming in arrives through word of mouth and repeat customers rather than through people searching for what you do.
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    What you spend on adsWe can see no paid search activity for your site, which in most local markets is the norm rather than a gap.
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    Monthly ad visitsYour site receives no visitors from paid search, which for most local businesses in this market is the norm rather than a problem.
6 checks on your search and traffic. You're seeing 3 of them.
6.4Good
What customers seeWhere you rank
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House on the Hill DesignNot in these results
1About 34 visits a month from search, across 35 searches
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You are #41 for Google search and traffic
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Your hours against demand

House on the Hill Design currently has no published opening hours, so there is no evidence of strong alignment with Christchurch demand peaks or of specific missed high‑traffic windows. The absence of hours prevents matching studio availability to popular search times for interior design and craft workshops. Adding clear hours or regular appointment slots would let demand patterns be measured and enable targeted adjustments to capture peak periods.

Strengths

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Top opportunity

  • 1
    Hours aligned with demandWe could not measure your hours against local demand, which almost always means your listing shows no opening hours at all.
1 check on your opening hours. You're seeing it.
2.1Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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Hours
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02Reviews3 opportunities

03Map positions2 opportunities

04Listings and social3 opportunities

05Facebook page2 opportunities

06Your website3 opportunities

07Google search and traffic3 opportunities

08Opening hours1 opportunity

Where you'd stand#55of 111 Christchurch interior designers
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Christchurch interior designersOverall · 111 businesses
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