A virtual tour of a home, made from its plan and your photos
A 360° tour means a special camera or a scanning service, a visit to shoot every room from a tripod, and usually a monthly fee to keep it hosted. What it gives the buyer is a bubble per room and arrows to jump between them — and it’s easy to lose track of how the rooms connect.
Casa does it the other way round, and we’d rather be clear that it isn’t a 360° tour. The home is built from its plan as a white 3D model, so the whole layout is visible at once; the page then walks through it in order, room by room, and in each one the camera goes down to eye level until the model gives way to an ordinary photo of that room. You understand where the kitchen is in relation to the terrace, then you see it.
What you need is the plan and a phone camera. The site is plain files you download and host for free, so there’s nothing to renew while the home is on the market.
What your site shows
The first screen
The home’s name — a street, a building, an area — in large type, its price, and a prompt to go in. Nothing loads from outside the site: no player, no embed.
The whole home at once
The model assembles on its board: every room in white, walls, doors, windows and a few pieces of furniture for scale. This is the part a set of photos can’t give — how the home fits together.
One room, then the next
The walk follows the order you set. The room you’re in turns warm while the others stay white; the view descends into it and crossfades into the photo, taken from the same spot as the model is seen.
After the tour
The floor plan from above with names and areas, the figures, the energy rating, what’s near on foot, and a form to request a real visit or a video call.
Have this ready
- A plan with measurements — from the deeds, the builder or your own tape measure.
- One landscape photo per room you want on the walk, from where a person would stand on entering.
- The order you want the rooms visited in: usually the living room first, the terrace last.
- A title and a line for each room, and a few words if there’s something to add.
- The figures, the energy rating and a handful of nearby places with their minutes on foot.
- Where requests should go: email (with a free Web3Forms key) and, if you like, WhatsApp.
Worth knowing
Match the photo to the model
Before becoming the photo, the model is filmed from the spot the photo was taken, so stand where the walk will look from: in the doorway, facing the main window. Photos from impossible corners break the effect.
Order the rooms as a visit would
An agent showing a flat doesn’t start with the bathroom. Put the room with the light first, bedrooms after, and end on the terrace or the view: the walk is your visit, in the order you’d give it.
It isn’t measured by a scanner
The model comes from the numbers you enter, not from a laser. Say on the page that measurements are usable area, wall to wall, and keep them to what the plan says so the model and the visit agree.
Questions
- Is this a 360° or Matterport-style tour?
- No. There are no panoramas and you can’t freely look around a room. It’s a guided walk through a 3D model of the home, ending in each room’s photo. If a buyer specifically needs to spin around inside every room, a 360° service is the right tool.
- Do I need special equipment?
- No: a plan with measurements and a phone camera. The wizard asks for each room as a rectangle — width, depth, where it starts — and works out walls, doors, windows and furniture from that.
- Does it work on phones?
- Yes. The walk runs with scrolling on a phone as on a computer, and on a device that can’t draw the 3D model, the page shows the photos and every section without it.
- What does it cost to keep online?
- Nothing: the site is static files that Cloudflare Pages hosts for free, and the kit comes with a guide to do it. You pay €500 once for the kit; a domain of your own is optional.