Key Takeaways
- AI tools are ideal for creating visual inspiration, experimenting with layouts and support for budget planning.
- AI is too short when it comes to procuring real products and understanding nuanced design styles.
- While AI cannot replace the specialist knowledge or emotional intuition of a human designer, it is a useful starting point for small DIY projects or a narrowing of the aesthetic decisions.
AI is probably the greatest technological player of our time. Similar to the advent of the smartphone, it changes almost every aspect of everyday life, including the way we design our houses. You have probably seen how hyperrealistic interiors of AI-generated online trains are accompanied by a flood of more critical (and sometimes free) comments in the course of online interior.
But should you rely on AI for your next renovation or update? Can it really replace the specialist knowledge of an interior designer? While the idea may sound attractive at first, the answer could surprise you. The following thinking experts.
What kind of AI can do well
Layout and position optimization
Nicole Jensen, interior designer at Murphy Door, says Ai can create a wide range of styles, layouts and aesthetics from simple input. “It can suggest that optimal furniture agreements are available, improve the flow of traffic and offer space -saving solutions based on room dimensions,” explains Jensen. “It can also simulate changes, e.g. adding furniture or adapting the lighting so that the users can find a place before making decisions.”
Visual aids
AI is particularly helpful to provide simple – and often free – visual visuals that you either had to pay for a designer to render an app a few years ago or download an app. For example, if you consider rediscovering your kitchen cupboards from the original wood color, simply upload a picture and apply the AI to change the color.
AI can also help you lead you in the right direction for decoration. For example, if you want to know what your living room would look like with a black carpet or contemporary furniture, you can even see some AI tools what a specific product would look like in your room. This technology helps you to make a design decision with many more self -confidence.
Color color selection
With Chatgpt you can even select a certain color and brand. Although this technically does not do the work of a person, this is a great way to get a picture for DIY projects or if you update something for which you would not necessarily set an interior designer. Sure, I probably still want to get color patterns, but the visual way is an easy way to narrow down your selection.
budgeting
After all, AI can be useful for budgeting. For example, you can arrange AI to design a room in your budget, which is divided with specific product suggestions.
What a AI is bad
Product recommendations
Russell Goldman, a former AI product manager at LG Electronics and now an interior designer and founder of more WoW, indicates that one of the biggest problems with AI are his impersonal recommendations. “Ki has no access to the dynamic, relational network of craftsmen, craftsmen and historical knowledge, from which designers come from the procurement of unique and sensible pieces,” he adds.
While some AI platforms can recommend certain products, Chatgpt, one of the most popular AI platforms, is not great. If you ask the chatt to design a room, there is no products that are not available in real life in real life. So if the flowers of your dreams or the perfect sofa take place, it can be disappointing that these things do not really exist. So you are stuck with the Google Image search to find something similar (if you are lucky).
Understand design styles
AI does not seem to understand design styles either. For example, I uploaded a picture of a living room in Chatgpt and asked to switch the chair to a modern age. It created a picture with a chair that had angled legs. Angled legs are not exactly modern-sie in the middle of the century. As a design author for almost a decade, I can assure you that some styles are open to interpretation, but this is not the case.
I also prompted Chatgpt to design a traditional kindergarten with specific product recommendations. While some of the suggestions were good, it recommended a chest of drawers in farmhouse style, no traditional. While AI can be useful for the framework or the ideas with a large picture, it is far behind human experts when it comes to details and product knowledge.
The ethics of Ai
A problem with AI that has many people in different industries is the ability to replace people. But Miles Smith, Senior Solutions Manager at Graphisoft, a leading provider of architecture design software, sees it as something that designers should accept.
“I think it is fair to compare AI with the rise of personnel computers. At any time when we discuss the AI, we always have to forced to answer the prevailing question.” Will AI take jobs away? “, Says Smith.” The answer in this case is no, but people who understand how they can use AI will finally replace those who do not do this, like people who understand how they can use personnel computers in the workplace, after all, those who did not do so. “
But Anastasia Casey from the inner collective emphasizes the basic problem that people with AI have. “It cannot replace the nuance of the eye of a designer or understand the emotional needs of a client,” she emphasizes. Imagine AI like a hammer – it is a tool that makes it easier to create things, but it's not the only thing you need to do the work. “AI only gets 85% of the way there and 85% are not nearly complete in a luxury service industry,” added Casey.
Should you have AI designed your room?
Although you shouldn't fully design AI, this can definitely be a helpful part of the process. Do you want a few quick pictures? AI can help you choose between white and dark blue color in your home office.
However, when it comes to larger projects such as kitchen renovations, AI is too short. “It does not take technical considerations such as spatial flow, material performance or regulatory restrictions,” explains Goldman. The AI is great for projects that require permits and larger constructions to generate aesthetic ideas, but at least currently cannot go much beyond.
On the other hand, if you try to save money on a smaller project, you can choose both the AI and the human input at any time. Use AI to narrow your style or give an idea. You can then share this information with a designer that offers an hourly package and is based on a real space with real products based on the ideas of AI, or suggest real products that correspond to the AI generated.