First issues first. To reply the query most of you should have, sure, I’ve already been to Dwelling Depot this morning (I left the home at 6:30am this morning) to hire the sanders to begin sanding the flooring in our bed room suite immediately. Woohoo! However I wished to share one thing enjoyable with y’all that I’ve been enjoying round with the final couple of days, and that’s utilizing Chat GPT for adorning and landscaping concepts. I’m positively not a professional at it, however after I posted an AI-generated picture of a panorama design that Chat GPT did of our entrance yard on my Fb web page two days in the past, a number of individuals requested how I did it. So for these of you who’ve by no means tried it out, I believed I’d share a enjoyable little walkthrough of the method. And maybe these of you who’ve used it for adorning and/or landscaping concepts can supply some solutions to get higher and extra correct outcomes.
You should use the free model of Chat GPT for this. Simply go to chatgpt.com and arrange a free account. Simply bear in mind that should you’re utilizing the free model, there’s a restrict to the variety of pictures you’ll be able to generate in a 24-hour interval. I feel the restrict is 5 pictures. So to get the most important payoff for these 5 pictures, you’ll need to be as specific and detailed in your prompts as doable. Additionally, there are in all probability thousands and thousands of individuals making an attempt to generate pictures at any given second, so it does take a couple of minutes to generate a picture. It takes some persistence in immediately’s world the place we get antsy if we don’t get search outcomes or solutions to our questions in lower than a second.
After you have your free account arrange, you’ll be able to add a picture of the room or space (entrance yard, again yard, and so forth.) that you just need to work with. On the textual content field, click on the “+” image on the left…

After which you’ll be able to add a picture out of your laptop or telephone.

As soon as the picture is uploaded, you’ll be able to inform it precisely what you need it to do with the picture. Only a warning, the AI is way from good, and the extra specific and detailed you will get together with your prompts, the higher the outcomes.
For my first try, I uploaded an image of the entrance of our home that I took final yr after we had the driveway poured.

And within the textual content field, that is the immediate I wrote:
Create picture: Are you able to give me landscaping concepts for this home? I desire a conventional look with lighting, annual flowers, perennial greenery, and so forth.
That is the picture it gave me. You possibly can see that I wanted to be far more detailed in my immediate. 😀 It turned our driveway right into a walkway to the entrance door. And it gave me an entire new home. If solely it have been that straightforward. 😀

As soon as it generates a picture, you’ll be able to click on or faucet on the picture to make it larger, and it’ll have this textual content field on the backside the place it says “Describe what you need to add, take away or change…” (Tremendous random aspect notice: the dearth of an Oxford comma in that instruction actually irritates me. I’m an enormous believer within the Oxford comma. 😀 )

I entered this immediate…
I like this one, however the concrete is a driveway, not a entrance sidewalk. Maintain the home the identical as the unique image, and add the landscaping across the unique home and driveway.
And with that, it generated this picture. It nonetheless gave me a brand new home, however at the very least the driveway is in the best spot now. Though, that’s a very slender driveway. Maybe it’s for a golf cart. 😀 However that is really a helpful picture that I might use for inspiration.

Subsequent, I made a decision to see what it could do with an unique picture of our front room, so I uploaded this picture of our front room taken the day we closed on our home…

After which I gave it this immediate:
Create an image of this room to point out me what it could seem like fully redecorated. I don’t need any of the unique finishes — wall colour, flooring, or curtains. I would like new hardwood flooring, clean drywall on the ceiling, and new home windows within the precise location of the unique home windows. I would like the room adorned in a standard fashion with touches of contemporary accents, like lighting, accent furnishings. I like to brighten with colour, so no boring impartial rooms. My favourite colour is darkish teal, however I additionally like gentle teal and pink. I additionally like small accents of orange and inexperienced.
And it generated this picture with one of many home windows lacking:

So I adopted up with this immediate:
That’s an excellent begin. Stick with these colours, however add the second window on the left wall that’s within the unique image. Additionally, I wish to add a fire between the 2 home windows on the left wall within the unique image (which is the principle wall within the picture you simply created). I’d additionally like a extra fascinating ceiling gentle fixture, like a sputnik-inspired ceiling gentle. I additionally need to add pinch-pleated curtains to the entire home windows with gold or brass curtain rods and rings.
And that is what it gave me.

I really actually love that room! However you’ll be able to inform that it didn’t perceive the place I wished the window. It put it on the left wall within the picture it generated relatively than the left wall from the unique picture that I uploaded. I ought to have been far more specific in my directions, and solely referred again to the picture it created. So I adopted up with this…
Very good however put the second window to the best of the hearth, and take away the window from the left wall. Put the floral image above the hearth mantel. Additionally, I desire a bigger rectangle espresso desk.
That is the place I realized that you must really inform it precisely what you need to maintain as a result of relatively than simply altering the objects I discussed and holding the remainder, it additionally modified different issues that I actually preferred and wished to maintain. And I simply couldn’t appear to do away with that window on the left wall. However general, I actually prefer it! And with a number of tweaks, this might positively be used as inspiration for adorning my front room. I actually preferred these inexperienced curtains from the earlier picture, although. I additionally preferred the window trim, crown molding, and baseboard painted in the identical colour because the partitions.

And at last, I made a decision to strive another room. This time, I uploaded this picture of what’s going to quickly be our bed room…

That is the immediate I wrote:
Create picture: I need to flip this room right into a bed room with the next objects:. A queen dimension mattress with a tall, upholstered headboard will match on the wall between the 2 home windows. On both aspect of the mattress in entrance of the home windows, I desire a bedside desk with drawers in a lightweight colour wooden and a desk lamp on every bedside desk. Underneath the mattress, I would love a big 9′ x 12′ space rug. On the underside 32 inches of the partitions, I would like white wainscoting with a colour or wallpaper above the wainscoting. On all three home windows, I would like pinch-pleated draperies on gold curtain rods and curtain rings.
And that is what it gave me. Yikes. I ought to have been far more detailed in my immediate.

So I adopted up with this immediate:
Maintain the white wainscoting. Make the partitions above the wainscoting teal grasscloth wallpaper. Make the draperies darkish teal velvet with a three-inch orange and white patterned accent trim on the forefront of every material panel. Make the desk lamps orange with white shades. Use a extra conventional fashion space rug with accents of orange, teal, and inexperienced. Maintain the headboard dimension, however make it an arched upholstered headboard with a coordinating patterned cloth. Make three window shades the tan coloured wooden shades. Maintain the ground colour the identical colour. Maintain the curtain rods and rings the identical colour. Add white crown molding.
And it generated this picture…

Now I used to be getting someplace, however nonetheless, that’s an entire lot of matching floral, and it’s not even a fairly floral. 😒 And that rug may be very darkish and heavy. So I went to Amazon and did a screenshot of the rug I’m really going to make use of within the room, copied the screenshot (CTRL+C on a PC), and I pasted it (CTRL+V) into the textual content field, and added this immediate:

And that is what it gave me…

I imply…yikes. It added the rug, however it additionally modified a whole lot of the issues I wished to maintain. Take a look at all of that matching floral! 😀 There was a day when that was very talked-about, however that day shouldn’t be within the yr 2025. Once more, you must be VERY specific in your prompts. Inform it precisely what you need to maintain from the earlier picture or inform it that you just ONLY need one factor modified.
So I adopted up with this immediate:
Maintain the realm rug, flooring, teal partitions, wainscoting, window shades, crown molding, ceiling fan, orange pillow, and desk lamps the very same.Change the curtains with strong darkish teal velvet curtains with orange and white 3″ trim on the forefront of every material panel.Change the headboard cloth with a material that has a creamy white background and a sample of orange and coral birds and tree limbs with inexperienced and light-weight teal leaves.Change the floral mattress pillows with pillows in a coordinating striped cloth.Change the floral comforter cloth with a strong creamy white cloth.Add a throw to the foot of the mattress in a coordinating sample of teal, orange, coral, and creamy white.Make the bedside tables wider, at the very least 30″ broad.
This was significantly better. It nonetheless didn’t change the beside tables, although.

So I attempted another time with this immediate:

And it gave me this. They’re nonetheless too slender, however higher. And someway, I misplaced the trim on the forefront of one of many material panels. 😀

Anyway, it’s enjoyable to mess around with, and on a free account, you’ll be able to generate as much as 5 pictures in a day. However once more, to get the most important payoff in these 5 pictures, you must be as detailed as doable in your prompts. And for some cause, it simply by no means needs to generate a picture from the very same vantage level as the unique picture I add, even after I inform it to. That’s not an enormous deal, although. It’s nonetheless enjoyable to mess around with, and it’s good you can copy and paste pictures of actual objects that you just need to use within the room. It’s a pleasant software to have so you’ll be able to see in case your design concepts will work earlier than spending numerous cash on the precise room.
The photographs usually have a really flat, sterile, virtually hotel-like vibe to them. They’re too good. An actual room would have far more “life” to it, for lack of a greater phrase. But it surely’s nonetheless a great tool, and it’s a enjoyable strategy to get concepts or take a look at out concepts that you have already got. I feel I’ll be utilizing it far more from right here on out.
Effectively, that’s sufficient of Chat GPT for the day. I’ll be spending the remainder of my day sanding the flooring in our bed room suite. I’m hoping I can get all of it sanded immediately and get the sanders returned by the point Dwelling Depot closes tonight at 10:00pm. I’ll meet y’all right here tomorrow morning and present you the progress!