Studio Chateau is a web-based option selection and management program for home builders, home buyers, design centers, and sub-contractors. Studio Chateau helps home buyers maximize their design experience by providing an online catalog of the options available for their new home while at the same time providing a complete purchasing, contracting, and financial operating environment for the home builder and design center. Studio Chateau offers state-of-the-art web-based technology that improves communications during the new home purchase coupled with the interior options selection process. The system connects the homebuyer, sales design center, purchasing, accounting, construction, trade partners, subcontractors and escrow by providing them all with accurate real-time information.