Artificial intelligence can help you write an email, parse large amounts of information, and much more -- but did you realize it can also help you decide on a new design for your home? For many people (myself included), interior design does not come naturally. Trying to decide on a decorative style for my home is a task that involves multiple Pinterest boards, numerous visits to the furniture store, and enough back-and-forth decisions to give a metal band whiplash.
That's where RoomGPT comes in. This is an AI-powered tool that lets you upload an image of your space, select a style, and receive suggestions for how the room should look. That said, it does come with limitations. RoomGPT doesn't provide much in the way of furniture suggestions, but it will pose paint and color combinations that can help you decide on a specific style to go for. Each "redesign," as it's called, costs one credit. If you sign in with your Gmail account, you receive one free credit to try the service out, after which you'll need to purchase more if you want to generate additional suggestions.
In short, it's an image generator that works based off a provided image of your room. It sounds a little basic when put that way, but the results more than speak for themselves. Here's how it works.
I crafted a new look for my space in less than a minute
It will take you longer to paint than to imagine
The interface is easy to use. If you aren't familiar with using artificial intelligence and the thought concerns you, don't worry -- it only takes a few clicks to see results. First, you'll upload an image of the space. In this example, it's a corner of my home office. I uploaded the image and then selected Industrial as the theme for it to work with. There are nine themes in total you can choose:
* Modern
* Summer
* Professional
* Tropical
* Coastal
* Vintage
* Industrial
* Neoclassic
* Tribal
You can also select the type of room you want suggestions for, including:
* Living Room
* Dining Room
* Bedroom
* Bathroom
* Office
* Kitchen
* Basement
* Outdoor Patio
* Gaming Room
That said, if you forget to select the right room (as I did several times), it doesn't seem to have a major impact on the end result. After you've uploaded your image, scroll down and click Render designs at the bottom. You can select up to four different styles at once, but each selection costs one additional credit. RoomGPT warns that the rendering process can take up to 45 seconds, but I found it rarely took more than ten.
After it's done, the suggestion for how to style your room appears to the right. You can then choose to download a new room or download the photo. A quick word of advice: always download the photo, whether you like the result or not. It costs nothing, but there's no way to get the image back once you navigate away from the result. You'll have to generate another image and spend another credit, and even then, there will be subtle differences in the suggestions.
All users get one redesign for free
Everything after that is a premium
RoomGPT offers three different options for price. The first plan is $9 for 30 credits. The second is $19 for 100 credits, and the last (and most cost-efficient) is $29 for 200 credits. A banner at the top of the page offers a 60% discount with the code BF30, and while Black Friday is long passed, the code still works. Signing up to purchase more credits also gives you access to premium email support, early access to new features, and more.
That said, I tested the application several times by signing in with different email addresses. If you only need a couple of suggestions, using a burner email or two might be the way to go. Given how random some of the suggestions can be, a single credit doesn't feel like enough, but at least it gives you a basic idea of what the tool offers.
More features are coming down the pipeline
The tool will soon offer premium room types and styles
RoomGPT is still a tool in its infancy, but the creator (known only by Hassan) promises that you will soon have the ability to save your rooms to a dashboard and select from "premium" room types and styles. While it's not entirely clear what this means, it's likely that there will be styles similar to those above that are only available to paying customers. Development seems to be done by a one-person team, so it isn't exactly speedy, but it does seem to be steady.
It's not without its downsides
There's plenty of room to grow
RoomGPT is a useful tool, but it still has a lot of room for growth. There are few features at the moment, and it could benefit from the addition of furniture suggestions and a tighter "view" of the room itself. In the image I uploaded, it mistook the back lighting of the bookshelf as furniture, and it misconstrued the closet door as an exterior exit. There are also several annoying aspects to the user interface, including the inability to store already-generated images or regenerate the same image on the same credit (just in case you select the wrong room type by accident.)
Despite that, it's worth playing with
RoomGPT is at its best when combined with another tool
Despite its downsides, I still had fun messing around with the tool. RoomGPT is best suited for helping you find paint color combinations to achieve a specific mood than trying to figure out how to rearrange your room. That said, if there is any furniture in your uploaded image, it will also suggest color differences for the furniture that can help you decide what combinations would look best in your space -- assuming it doesn't completely erase the furniture and knock out a wall or two. I took the same image, gave it the same command, and plugged it into Gemini. That generated a better result in far less time, at no cost to me.
Does that make RoomGPT useless? Not at all. The Gemini rendering wasn't quite as robust. However, I can take the image generated by RoomGPT, feed it into Gemini, and have it make custom tweaks and changes that RoomGPT doesn't allow at the current moment.
RoomGPT isn't the way of the future, at least not yet
RoomGPT is a fun way to spend a half-hour or so. It would be better if it offered more bang for the buck; given its relatively limited functionality, the pricing feels a bit outrageous at the current moment. While paying for the premium credits gives additional features (like email support, commercial usage rights, etc.) it still doesn't feel like enough.
RoomGPT
See at https://www.roomgpt.io/
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