Ferdy Korpershoek typed a single prompt into ChatGPT 6 and watched a complete home renovation website build itself in front of him, animations, before-and-after sliders, portfolio pages, and a floating header with rounded corners, the whole thing. What makes this more than a design experiment is what came next: the finished AI-generated site was converted into a fully editable WordPress theme, meaning a client can update a team member’s bio or swap a project photo without touching a line of code or accidentally unraveling the design. As of September 2026, Korpershoek says this is simply the best method he has found for delivering professional websites, and the total cost for this particular build landed somewhere around $35 to $50.
From a blank chat to a live website in one working session
The process begins not with a design tool but with a conversation. Korpershoek created a new ChatGPT project called Home Renovation Website and sent a plain-language description: a company based in Amsterdam specializing in luxurious renovations, wanting to elevate people’s homes, handling everything so the client never needs to hire anyone else. From that description, ChatGPT proposed ten company names. He chose Elevate Living, then asked for a logo, feeding in screenshots from design inspiration sites as visual references alongside a request to make everything feel like a $50,000 website.
A branding style came back, and he pushed it further, asking for more vibrancy and more green. A transparent PNG logo followed, then a master prompt covering every section the site needed: a video hero, before-and-after sliders, a portfolio with individual project pages, an about page with a team of eight, and a contact form. That prompt, with the logo and branding files attached, was sent into a fresh ChatGPT session running on the Pro tier (equivalent to Astra 6). Higgsfield, an AI image and video generation tool connected directly to ChatGPT, handled the custom visual assets.
The hero video alone went through several rounds of refinement. A static tripod shot became a panning sequence cycling through multiple renovation scenes, with a semi-transparent floating header that sticks to the top of the screen as users scroll. Entrance animations were slowed down and delayed by 500 milliseconds so each element has room to breathe as it appears.
Turning a stunning AI site into something a client can actually use
Once the design was locked, Korpershoek ran a conversion prompt that instructed ChatGPT to rebuild the entire site as a native WordPress theme, keeping the layout pixel-perfect while routing editable content through Advanced Custom Fields and Fluent Forms. The process took 58 minutes and 41 seconds. He noted the timing plainly: ‘This is a big job, creating a whole theme, creating the necessary tools. When you make adjustments, it will not take an hour, it will be so much faster.’
The finished theme was transferred to a live domain (elevatelivingamsterdam.com) hosted on Hostinger, with Google Analytics, Google Search Console, and the SureRank SEO plugin all configured afterward, much of it handled by ChatGPT operating the cursor directly. Adding a new team member now takes less than a minute in the WordPress backend: create the custom post, add a name and role, attach a featured image, then drop the entry into the page’s team order field.
The contact form was also refined mid-build. After discovering submitted messages arrived as plain unformatted text, Korpershoek asked ChatGPT to style the notification email to match the form itself: green background, branded layout. A test submission confirmed it working before the tutorial wrapped.
What Ferdy still had open on his second screen
On the desk beside the main build session, a recording timer ChatGPT had created for Korpershoek ticked past two hours, counting every minute of the project in a small custom tool he had asked it to make.
The finished site loads fast on mobile, the portfolio items are all live and individually editable, and the cookie banner correctly blocks tracking scripts for any visitor who declines. Korpershoek figures a build like this, with a client-ready WordPress backend and a design that would cost tens of thousands from a traditional agency, can now be delivered for around $35 to $50 in AI credits and, if the marketer knows what to charge, is worth considerably more than that.
