Virtual Appointments OCT 2024
Oct 24, 2024 Custom Home Design

At Your Fingertips: Try Our Virtual Tools

We know that this time of year is busy…and it only gets busier (and chillier!) from here on out. That’s why we make it as easy as possible to make an appointment or start visualizing the possibilities, all from the comfort of your current home! It’s virtually amazing.

Virtual Tools You Can Use

Wayne Homes has invested a lot into providing our valued customers with a suite of online tools. These tools make it easier to get to know Wayne Homes and all that we offer. It also provides a platform for you to virtually meet with our team members to discuss what is most important to you in your new home and review key information regarding our homebuilding process.

Wayne Homes Website and Guides

The Wayne Homes website offers a plethora of resources to help with researching floor plans, connecting with our teams at the Model Home Sales Centers, photos of our model homes, as well as homes we’ve built, and more!

  • Downloadable Guides – Download our helpful guides to learn more about specific floor plan types, such as multigenerational homes, ranch homes, or best priced homes. Our guides also provide design inspiration with True Design guides, kitchen design guide, and more.
  • The Wayne Homes Blog – Our blog is chockfull of resources, tips, and homeowner testimonials. If you’re looking for answers or inspiration, your first stop should be our blog! Here’s a great post to start with: Our Guide to Savvy Homeownership.

Online Design Tools

We know designing your home is the fun part, so why not get a jump on it from home? Our suite of online design tools allow you to do just that. From trying different floor plans to visualizing your home’s exterior, our tools help you get a feel for what you want…and what you don’t!

  • Exterior Visualizer – Offered for each of our floor plans and exterior options, this tool allows you to visualize how different color choices will look on your home to help you create an exterior that captures your design style.
  • Kitchen Visualizer – We offer two kitchen layout styles that you can customize with different design elements to help visualize what your kitchen will look like with your design choices.
  • Cabinet Designer – This tool allows you to look through the various cabinet styles and finishes we offer to narrow down the style that best fits your taste.
  • Virtual Tours – We offer virtual tours of each of our physical model homes. We also offer virtual tour renderings for many of our plans – they’re interactive and feel like you’re actually walking through the space.
  • Interactive Floor Plans – Each of our floor plans offers an interactive floorplan where you can adjust the layout utilizing some of our most popular customizations.

Photo and Video Galleries

If you’re looking for visual inspiration, Wayne Homes has it!

  • Open House Videos – Check out Wayne Homes on YouTube to watch weekly open house videos showcasing homes we’ve built
  • The Wayne Homes Construction Series Videos – These videos walk you through each step of the process of building with Wayne Homes to help you learn about the steps of the process and what to expect next
    • Process and Timeline – this page of our website breaks everything down and is a handy resource to understand what comes next
  • Flickr – Check out Wayne Homes on Flickr where every week we post new photos of a home we’ve built. Flickr is an excellent way to search for homes with finishes you’re considering so that you can see what they look like in an actual home.
  • Photo & Video Gallery – Browse, save, and print visual inspiration for your new home!
  • Social Media – Follow Wayne Homes on Facebook and Instagram and Pinterest to learn about upcoming events, design trends, homeowner tips, the latest news about new floor plans, etc.

Virtual Appointments

Our online sales team is often our homeowners’ first contact with Wayne Homes. You can book an appointment to meet with one of our Online Sales Consultants. Our New Home Consultants offer flexibility in scheduling both in-person and virtual appointments. During these appointments, they can get to know you and what is most important to you in your new home, go over all of the info you need to know and work with you to design your home’s layout.

Sarah Clevenger, a New Home Consultant at our Portage Model Center says, “Virtual appointments are a great option for customers that have a busy home life, work schedule, or distance from the office. I typically offer virtual appointments when there are still things that need to be reviewed or approved but not something that requires them getting off early from work, driving an hour or so to the office, and finding a babysitter for their kids. It provides a lot more flexibility to help reduce the number of trips they need to make to the office.”

Erin Borer, a New Home Consultant at our Bowling Green Model Center, says that the interactive floor plan and virtual tour options really help with deciding which home is right for you. “I love how the interactive floor plan can give customers an idea of the kind of customizations we offer. I’ve had so many customers RAVE about our virtual tours. They love that they can study the floor plan. When I explain the options from the virtual tour that are included, we’re able to work together to determine the options that are most important to them to incorporate in their own homes.”

Anne Fowkes, a New Home Consultant at our Belmont Model Center, says our website is hands down the best. “People love the virtual tours. Being able to use the exterior visualizer and the interactive floor plan helps them to start imaging what can be done. Also, having the starting cost of the floor plan they’re interested in, as well as the exterior option they’re considering, is so helpful.”

Anne also loves how our website and virtual appointment options make it so easy for people who are relocating from out of state: “Virtual appointments bridge the gap if someone is working out of town or lives out of state and helps people get their appointments faster. Particularly if a homeowner lives out of state, virtual appointments help to save them travel time, flights, hotels, and all of the other challenges that come with needing to travel in person for an appointment.”

Erin agrees and shared that she’s recently been working with homeowners relocating from both California and Florida: “Our virtual appointment options ensured that we didn’t miss a beat. They’ve been able to explore our floorplans on our website and get a feel for the layout of the plans thanks to our virtual tours. It’s easier for us to coordinate our schedules by meeting virtually, and we’re still able to cover all of the things that we’d be covering if we met in person. I love that we can help to make the process of relocating to a new state a lot less stressful.”

Sue Crow, a New Home Consultant at our Newark Model Center echoes these sentiments. “Hands down, my customers find the virtual tours and interactive floor plans to be most helpful. Sometimes people don’t even realize those resources exist so I love letting them know about them!”

Virtual to Reality

Now that you’re one of the customers who are “in the know” about these helpful resources, we invite you to explore each of our online tools, then make an appointment with one of our New Home Consultants. They will be able to chat with you about your interests, features you like, what you don’t like, and how to bring it all together in real life. That’s how we use virtual to create a beautiful reality.

Make an appointment today!


About Wayne Homes

Wayne Homes is a custom homebuilder in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and West Virginia (see all Model Home Centers). We offer more than 50 fully customizable floorplans and a team dedicated to providing the best experience in the home building industry. For more information, Ask Julie by Live Chat or call us at (866) 253-6807.

Disclaimer: The details of this blog are accurate as of the publish date, but are subject to change.

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