Interior design has reached the predictable stage of the AI conversation where almost every new tool promises to transform the profession.
- Upload a room.
- Press a button.
- Receive a completed design.
Except that isn’t really how professional interior design works.
A plausible image isn’t the same thing as a feasible room.
It doesn’t know whether the sofa fits through the door.
Whether the stone is available.
Whether the pendant is hanging at the correct height.
Whether the cabinet can actually be constructed.
Whether the budget works.
Whether the electrical plan needs to change.
AI becomes much more interesting when we stop asking it to be the interior designer and start asking where it can remove unnecessary work from the interior designer’s day.
Here are the areas where it currently makes the most sense.
1. Early concept exploration
This is probably the most obvious use.
Tools such as Midjourney can make visual experimentation extraordinarily fast. Instead of committing immediately to one aesthetic direction, a designer can test:
- Dark timber against pale stone.
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