First issues first. To reply the query most of you’ll have, sure, I’ve already been to House Depot this morning (I left the home at 6:30am this morning) to lease the sanders to start out sanding the flooring in our bed room suite at this time. 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 once 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 folks requested how I did it. So for these of you who’ve by no means tried it out, I assumed 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 recommendations to get higher and extra correct outcomes.
You need to 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 photographs you’ll be able to generate in a 24-hour interval. I believe the restrict is 5 photographs. So to get the largest payoff for these 5 photographs, you’ll wish to be as specific and detailed in your prompts as doable. Additionally, there are most likely thousands and thousands of individuals making an attempt to generate photographs at any given second, so it does take a couple of minutes to generate a picture. It takes some endurance in at this time’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 getting your free account arrange, you’ll be able to add a picture of the room or space (entrance yard, again yard, and many others.) that you just wish 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 pc or cellphone.

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 much from good, and the extra specific and detailed you may get along 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 need a conventional look with lighting, annual flowers, perennial greenery, and many others.
That is the picture it gave me. You may see that I wanted to be way 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 wish to add, take away or change…” (Tremendous random facet be aware: the shortage 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. Hold 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 not less than the driveway is in the suitable spot now. Though, that’s a extremely slender driveway. Maybe it’s for a golf cart. 😀 However that is truly a helpful picture that I may use for inspiration.

Subsequent, I made a decision to see what it might 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 might appear to be fully redecorated. I don’t need any of the unique finishes — wall shade, flooring, or curtains. I need new hardwood flooring, clean drywall on the ceiling, and new home windows within the actual location of the unique home windows. I need the room embellished in a conventional type with touches of contemporary accents, like lighting, accent furnishings. I like to brighten with shade, so no boring impartial rooms. My favourite shade is darkish teal, however I additionally like mild 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 hearth between the 2 home windows on the left wall within the unique image (which is the primary wall within the picture you simply created). I’d additionally like a extra attention-grabbing ceiling mild fixture, like a sputnik-inspired ceiling mild. I additionally wish 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 truly 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 fairly than the left wall from the unique picture that I uploaded. I ought to have been way 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 suitable of the hearth, and take away the window from the left wall. Put the floral image above the hearth mantel. Additionally, I need a bigger rectangle espresso desk.
That is the place I discovered that you must truly inform it precisely what you wish to preserve as a result of fairly than simply altering the gadgets I discussed and conserving the remainder, it additionally modified different issues that I actually appreciated and wished to maintain. And I simply couldn’t appear to eliminate that window on the left wall. However total, I actually prefer it! And with just a few tweaks, this might positively be used as inspiration for adorning my front room. I actually appreciated these inexperienced curtains from the earlier picture, although. I additionally appreciated the window trim, crown molding, and baseboard painted in the identical shade because the partitions.

And at last, I made a decision to attempt yet 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 wish to flip this room right into a bed room with the next gadgets:. A queen measurement mattress with a tall, upholstered headboard will match on the wall between the 2 home windows. On both facet of the mattress in entrance of the home windows, I need a bedside desk with drawers in a lightweight shade wooden and a desk lamp on every bedside desk. Beneath the mattress, I would really like a big 9′ x 12′ space rug. On the underside 32 inches of the partitions, I need white wainscoting with a shade or wallpaper above the wainscoting. On all three home windows, I need pinch-pleated draperies on gold curtain rods and curtain rings.
And that is what it gave me. Yikes. I ought to have been way more detailed in my immediate.

So I adopted up with this immediate:
Hold 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 type space rug with accents of orange, teal, and inexperienced. Hold the headboard measurement, however make it an arched upholstered headboard with a coordinating patterned cloth. Make three window shades the tan coloured wooden shades. Hold the ground shade the identical shade. Hold the curtain rods and rings the identical shade. 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 reasonably floral. 😒 And that rug could be very darkish and heavy. So I went to Amazon and did a screenshot of the rug I’m truly 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, nevertheless it additionally modified loads of the issues I wished to maintain. Have a look at all of that matching floral! 😀 There was a day when that was very talked-about, however that day is just not within the yr 2025. Once more, you must be VERY specific in your prompts. Inform it precisely what you wish to preserve from the earlier picture or inform it that you just ONLY need one factor modified.
So I adopted up with this immediate:
Hold the world rug, flooring, teal partitions, wainscoting, window shades, crown molding, ceiling fan, orange pillow, and desk lamps the very same.
Exchange the curtains with strong darkish teal velvet curtains with orange and white 3″ trim on the forefront of every material panel.
Exchange the headboard cloth with a cloth that has a creamy white background and a sample of orange and coral birds and tree limbs with inexperienced and light-weight teal leaves.
Exchange the floral mattress pillows with pillows in a coordinating striped cloth.
Exchange 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, not less than 30″ large.
This was a lot better. It nonetheless didn’t change the beside tables, although.

So I attempted yet 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 photographs in a day. However once more, to get the largest payoff in these 5 photographs, you must be as detailed as doable in your prompts. And for some purpose, it simply by no means needs to generate a picture from the very same vantage level as the unique picture I add, even once I inform it to. That’s not an enormous deal, although. It’s nonetheless enjoyable to mess around with, and it’s good that you could copy and paste photographs of actual gadgets that you just wish to use within the room. It’s a pleasant instrument to have so you’ll be able to see in case your design concepts will work earlier than spending plenty of cash on the precise room.
The photographs usually have a really flat, sterile, nearly hotel-like vibe to them. They’re too good. An actual room would have way more “life” to it, for lack of a greater phrase. But it surely’s nonetheless a useful gizmo, and it’s a enjoyable method to get concepts or check out concepts that you have already got. I believe I’ll be utilizing it way 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 at this time and get the sanders returned by the point House Depot closes tonight at 10:00pm. I’ll meet y’all right here tomorrow morning and present you the progress!
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