. Creating a Multi-functional Homebuilding Website - 315(1) How about if you can “build” your home before it’s actually built?

With Commodore Homes’ new interactive website, you can “build your own home” before you really build your home. Design your kitchen? Yes, you can do that too! Create a password-protected account and you’ll be able to save your selections for future reference.

The site encourages visitors to explore and connect with their qualified builders and custom products while viewing videos of the design, construction, and transformation of new homes. Interested in the specific cabinets and faucets and want to shop from home? In the Options area, there’s a complete listing of features and options to select from and save as you plan your next home.

Features of the Commodore Multi-Website System

When the prospective homeowner creates an account and enters the website, your address initiates a search for the nearest potential Commodore-approved builder. The visitor can find this information under the “Find a Builder” tab.

The Company Portal describes Commodore in more detail and answers informative Frequently Asked Questions, information about markets served and interesting residential-related news and blogs.

The site provides a sales rep access area to determine who may be showing notable interest. Beyond the corporate site each of their divisions has a site. Each site is managed by the web admin from one central website manager portal. View the division sites here:

Manorwood Homes

Pennwest Homes

Colony Homes

Commodore of Indiana

Commodore of Pennsylvania

R-Anell Homes

Freedom Park Home

Mid Country Homes

The InHouse Experience

For the prospective homeowner, this website offers a great opportunity to explore the range of possibilities with its interactive and unique inHouse Experience.

How many times have you visited a friend’s new home and heard them say, “If there is one thing I would have done differently, it would have been…” ? This unfortunate situation is not uncommon when elements are visualized independently of other features. Or, the plans may have been viewed in a 2-dimensional floor plan with a limited perspective.

Commodore’s fantastic interactive portal allows you to visualize all of the critical exterior and interior elements of your future home. Additionally, after saving your favorite configurations, you may go back to review, edit and save again.

How the Interactive inHouse Design Works

After opening Commodore’s easy-to-use (and even fun), interactive website, go to the inHouse Experience section where you can begin to design the “curb appeal” elements by selecting between one or two-story configurations, sidings and roof pitches. A simple click will show how your home would look; the graphics change with each selection.

Secondly, move inside to configure floor plan, kitchen, flooring, décor, and all of the other important features. The combinations are nearly limitless and seeing each element in the context of the others before construction is a homeowner’s dream.

Avoid those decorating mistakes that frequently raise their ugly heads, often after you have moved in.

Dream Your Dream Home

Exterior

First, you will select your choice of a one or two-story plan. From here you can visualize a range of roof pitch angles and exterior features including dormers and curbside exterior features that really create the personality of the home.

Next, you may select a shade of shake lower front sidings, exterior trim colors, vertical and horizontal siding shades, and various types of roofing and shutters. You can even select your front door. Each time you click on an option, the picture will change, allowing you to mix and match hundreds of combinations.

Interior

Move inside and browse the floorplan that fits your lifestyle. Options include three and four-bedroom plans with two bathrooms with a choice of shower styles in the Master bath.

Kitchen

To many, the kitchen is the most important room in the house. Here you have a world of combinations to create that dream kitchen. While there are literally hundreds of combinations to consider, create your custom kitchen cabinets, Neo Kitchen with a variety of flooring, countertop, cabinetry, appliances and hardware choices.

Robust Dealer / Builder Tools

Not just a website, Commodore is a website system with robust tools to empower Commodore and their builders to have online access to all sorts of information. The site includes the ability for the Admin to add new InHouse Experiences to any of the 8 sites as well as add builders/dealers and give the dealer embed code allowing them to add InHouse Experience tools to their own website!

Builders also have access to private logins with private information and downloadable resources on each home they carry. Commodore can add builders/dealers, and give them access to information on different home series, even access to more than one site.

Adding pages, adding new homes, adding home series, all of these are a snap as is managing call-to-actions and sales features. The cost effectiveness of building a portal and giving builders access to download materials rather than printing and shipping has been significant. Builders have timely information, the public has a resource-rich site where they can build their home, and Commodore has the tools and power to keep everyone up-to-date all the time! A triple win!

Does your dealer network or builder network need access to key marketing assets efficiently? Is your business ready to take the next step to develop tools for customizing your product online? Talk to us!