Case study · Brand + interactive web

Habitat: letting customers see the finish before they commit.

A premium brand and website for a cabinet respray and fine spray-finishing studio, anchored by an interactive Colour Studio that previews professional finishes on a customer's own kitchen photos and turns curiosity into a qualified enquiry.

SectorPremium trade & finishing
StackPHP · SQLite · ServiceM8
StatusLive at habitat.co.nz
The problem

Premium work needs premium proof, before the quote.

A high-end respray is a considered purchase. The customer is imagining their kitchen in a colour they've never seen on their own cabinets, and that uncertainty is exactly what stalls the enquiry. A gallery of someone else's kitchens only goes so far. People hesitate because they can't picture it.

Habitat's Colour Studio removes that hesitation. The customer uploads their own kitchen, previews real finishes on it, and arrives at an enquiry already half-sold, having effectively designed the job themselves. It does the persuading before any human time is spent, and qualifies the lead in the process.

Under the hood

The engineering that makes it work.

01

A finish preview on the customer's own photo

Rather than a generic mockup, the studio applies a chosen finish to the kitchen photo the customer uploads. Seeing the colour on their actual cabinets is what converts hesitation into confidence — and it's far more convincing than any sample card.

02

A curated, filterable palette

A library of professional cabinet colours is organised by family and made filterable, so the customer explores without being overwhelmed. The choices are framed the way a finisher thinks about them, not as a wall of random swatches.

03

Indicative pricing built into the flow

The customer picks their kitchen size and sees an indicative price, with optional extras, before they ever make contact. By the time they enquire, expectations are set and the conversation starts from a realistic place.

04

A multi-step tool that qualifies as it guides

The studio is a guided sequence — upload, choose, size, extras, enquire — and each step quietly captures what's needed to qualify the lead. The customer experiences a helpful tool; the business receives a structured, ready-to-action enquiry.

05

Straight into the job workflow

A completed enquiry flows into the ServiceM8 Website Enquiries queue with a confirmation to the studio, so a lead generated at midnight is waiting in the work pipeline by morning, with the customer's choices attached.

06

Brand and positioning as a deliberate filter

The whole site is built to attract clients who value quality over price. The premium aesthetic isn't decoration — it sets expectations and filters the audience, so the enquiries that come through are the right ones.

See it working

The actual product.

Habitat homepage
HomepagePremium positioning at habitat.co.nz
Habitat Colour Studio
Colour StudioFilterable palette of professional finishes
Habitat Colour Studio — preview and pricing
Preview & pricingSee the finish and an indicative price before enquiring
Habitat completed work gallery
Our workCompleted resprays and fine finishing
What's inside

An interactive sales tool, not a brochure site.

  • Brand identity & premium design
  • Photo-upload finish preview
  • Filterable professional palette
  • Indicative pricing with extras
  • Multi-step lead qualification
  • ServiceM8 enquiry integration
  • Gallery of completed work
  • Email marketing templates
Built with
PHPSQLiteInteractive image previewServiceM8 API

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The Colour Studio turns browsers into qualified enquiries while you sleep. If your business could use something that does the persuading up front, let's talk.

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