Basic Decor recently published a post featuring a selection of AI tools for interior designers. In addition to the well-known Midjourney and Stable Diffusion, there were eight other tools that are supposed to speed up the work of interior designers.
Color space
A very simple tool, not only for interior designers, but also for any other designers who work with color. Enter the RGB code or select a shade by eye, and the neural network generates 25 combinations in different styles.
AI Room Planner
This is also a fairly simple and free tool: you need to upload a photo of the interior, select the room and style. But here, as they say, there are some questions about the result. For now, I suggest using such tools to generate examples of how NOT to do it. We sometimes need such content for YouTube channels, reels, or teaching.
Playground AI
This is also an interesting tool, free (up to 500 images per day), but you need to be able to formulate your request correctly in English. It creates 3D visualizations based on an image, description, and selected style. In our studio account, we conducted a survey: what uses can you think of for a regular wooden chair? B.ai chat gave us about 20 options, and my colleagues and I came up with about 30.
Scribble Diffusion
The creators claim that the tool can generate a 3D image based on a very rough sketch and description. Sounds inspiring, designers will understand. Sometimes an idea pops into our heads, and we start sketching it out on the fly to explain it to our colleagues or clients. Of course, it’s not always possible to convey the idea. How great would it be if we could just throw our “drawings” into a neural network and immediately see what it would look like?
Apparently, the creators of Scribble wanted to implement something like this and were guided by good intentions. But something went wrong (for now). We didn’t give up; we wanted to see our chair applications. The only tool available is a pencil, and any corrections can only be made by undoing the action.
REimagine home
Another free tool, only registration is required. It redesigns rooms with furniture, but does not fill empty ones. As in Room Planner, the settings only include room purpose and styles.
Visualize AI
The best of all, but it is paid. The creators give you 5 prompts for testing, then $39 per month.
Conclusion
Unfortunately, AI is not yet an assistant to designers, let alone a competitor. At this stage, we can use these tools for inspiration at most, although $39 is a questionable price for Pinterest functionality.
Personally, I plan to learn how to construct queries correctly, and who knows, maybe in the future I will be able to hire a little robot that will visualize my drawings of cats on chairs and green cabinets.