It is not easy to find industries that have not been influenced by Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology. Architects and interior designers also use AI tools in order to remain competitive and relevant. AI now plays a significant role in these fields to help professionals generate design ideas, optimize layouts, and even automate tasks, to name a few, allowing architects and designers to focus on the more strategic aspects of a build.
Using AI Tools
Many people appreciate seeing possibilities for a home design, and that is now possible with the help of AI. The option is now available to create your dream home using one of the many AI apps that can be downloaded. What an app does is to allow you to view renderings of a space in your home, done in different styles. From the layout, to colors, textures, materials, furnitures, accessories, you can transform any space and continue to explore and tweak until you make one that grabs you.
Personally, I would use an app for a cosmetic makeover of a space at home, such as changing the layout, choosing colors, or moving furniture around. It would be good to see possibilities without having to do the physical work first.
However, for a more extensive renovation, I personally would prefer to engage an architect and/or interior designer because there are so many other things to consider in a build, like electricals, plumbing, structural engineering, licenses, procurement, construction, and so on.
Using AI Photos
The internet is such a treasure trove for what a blog reader called “picspiration”. When thinking about designing a home, a picture does paint a thousand words. It is now so easy to access beautiful photos of homes on the web. Algorithms would serve you your custom-made results in a matter of seconds.
However, you wouldn’t even know if the photos you get are AI-generated or AI-modified, unless indicated.
AI-generated means that you fed in the words and AI made it for you from scratch. AI-modified, on the other hand, means that an existing image was altered or enhanced.
The AI-generated photo above looks so real. One can almost feel the heat, the refreshing invitation of the water, and the cool comfort of the sofa.
This photo was labeled AI-modified. I am not savvy enough to see what has been modified. If you know, please comment below.
There are so many pictures though that are not labeled AI-generated or AI-modified, and this annoys some people. I guess it’s because there’s so much fakery going on in the world today that makes it difficult to discern what is real and what is enhanced or made up, and that ticks them off. All I can say is that you must find a way to deal with that negative feeling because AI is here to stay.
Reverse Orientalism
I have been following the page Reverse Orientalism in Instagram for some time now. It is a page run by Singapore-born and now Dubai-based entrepreneur Hajar Ali. Her designs come from her imagination. She describes her AI art as “co-opting and sometimes subverting, Occidental imagery to create Orientalist art.”
Here are some of my favorite images from her IG page.
I love the fantastical and extravagant images because I feel my imagination blossom, begging me to let go of my terribly pragmatic proclivity. I feel the best way to create your dream home is to free yourself from the practical considerations first when brainstorming. Even if it’s just the choice of paint colors, sometimes practicality gets in the way. For example, you may choose a light neutral color for the walls, instead of the red that your heart desires because neutral is “safer”, easier to match with other colors and existing furniture, and because you’d like to avoid the possible horror of hating it once your walls have been painted with the color of Cupid.
Those who can’t be bothered to learn how to use an AI tool, you always have the Boysen app to fall back on, but only for choosing paint colors.
Architects and interior designers who have AI-generated or AI-modified images of homes that you would like to share here, please feel free to send a link to info@myboysen.com.
