| ▲ | fasteddie31003 3 hours ago |
| I'm building my personal home right now. The AI image models have been a game-changer in designing the look of the house. My architect did an OK job, but the details that Nano Banana added really bring the house up a notch. I just do hundreds of renders from the basic 3D models and I find looks that I like and iterate from there. We are implementing the renders from Nano Banana over our Interior Designers designs. We would not have hired the Interior Designers again after using Nano Banana to do our interiors. I think part of the issue with architects and designers today is that they use CAD too much. It's easy to design boxes and basic roof lines in CAD. It's harder to put in curves and more craftsman features. Nano Banana's renders have more organic design features IMO. Our house is looking great and we're very happy how it's going so far with a lot of the thanks to Nano Banana. |
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| ▲ | kristjansson 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Part of the job of interior design is delivering the promised images in … yknow, physical reality? How are you going from nano banana images to actual plans, materials, finishes, products, paint codes, … ? |
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| ▲ | yokoprime 30 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | The interior designer doesn't really do squat. They can do plan drawings and have some off the shelf cupboards and furniture. They don't implement anything | |
| ▲ | fasteddie31003 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | I just gave the renders to the cabinet makers and they had no problems recreating. | | |
| ▲ | kristjansson 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | Interesting. I model interior architecture as "here's $xxxK, make it nice" and they do a bunch of work to figure out what you mean by nice, and a bunch more work to codify your definition of nice into, like, SKUs of sconces and so on. Seems like NB helped you figure out your definition of nice, and your subcontractor had a good designer on staff to execute on that. |
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| ▲ | jatari 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Presumably you give the render to a designer and they recreate it using real materials. | |
| ▲ | PunchTornado 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | not the op, but this is what i did too and bypassed the designer. I iterated with nano banana and gave the result to the company that builds the kitchen. the middleman is gone now. | | |
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| ▲ | vunderba 30 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| NB Pro can do some seriously impressive edits around interior decorating - see the prompt that replaces the window with a mirror which correctly reflects the room. It's not perfect, but it's still damn impressive. https://mordenstar.com/blog/edits-with-nanobanana |
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| ▲ | soared 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Same! I redid my backyard entirely and needed ideas. Gemini took a pile of dirt and gave me countless ideas, improved my plans, recommended materials, etc. a designer gave me two out of the box ideas that Gemini didn’t come up with, but it did everything else perfectly. (Designer said, put a patio out in the yard and put your table there, and take your ugly shed and make it the center of attention, since you’ll never succeeed trying to hide it) |
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| ▲ | rcpt 29 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | Related: I asked AI to find me a house to buy and went with the first recommendation. It did a better job searching than I did. | |
| ▲ | pkaye 39 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Did you do this in Gemini or Nano Banana? Should I give multiple view points and top view of the back yard? I'm trying to see how much info to give. | |
| ▲ | veb 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Same thing here. I took a picture of some gravel/grass and asked it to show me what it'd look like with tiles. I showed it another part of the property, and asked it to show me what it would look like with a raised lawn. Super impressive to be able to see a cloudy idea in the physical realm like that. |
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| ▲ | bartman 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Can you write a bit more about your workflow? I've been thinking about doing the same, but since I'm very non-interior-design minded have struggled to ask the right things. Like...
What are your inputs to the model? Empty renders of the space, or more fully decorated views/ photos?
Do you have a light harness around this to help you discover the style you like and then stay consistent with it? Do you find that giving a lot of context around the space you're designing helps (it hasn't in my attempts)? |
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| ▲ | fasteddie31003 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | I started with sketchup to make basic floor plans and house shapes. I had a rough idea of the style of the home. I picked "Transitional English Estate" since the build site is out on a farm that sorta looks like the Cotswolds. I used AI in this process to get rough renders and feedback on the floorplan. I then took that basic floorplan and house dimensions to a Draftsman who did a lot of tweaking to get it up to code and fix issues. I got his plans and took it to a Sketchup Pro on Fivver . They made a detailed sketchup model. I then took that model and took screenshots from different perspectives and tweaked the prompt to get renders I liked. These changes were reencorprated into the blueprints. I did the same thing with the interior. Took screenshots from sketchup and put them into AI and tweaked the prompt. https://imgur.com/a/lSIYTYr | | |
| ▲ | elliottboxx an hour ago | parent [-] | | super interesting - can you share some of the other elements. screenshots of the sketchup model, the AI image output, etc? would you recommend this workflow to others, or just noting that it is what you did? any regrets, road blocks, frustrations? a ball park price would also be interesting: total cost of sketchup license + ai token cost + fivver modeler + draftsman etc. I assume under $1k? |
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| ▲ | soared 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Mine was far more lightweight, but u just uploaded pics of my yard and prompted manually a bunch of times. Sometimes id find reference images to give as context, draw on the image to call out specific areas, etc. It wouldn’t show me the exact things I wanted, but got close enough that I could test ideas and iterate quickly. |
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| ▲ | lurkingllama an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I actually built an app to accomplish this exact thing as I was finishing building my home and was clueless when it came to interior design. I'm genuinely astonished by the capabilities of these models with regards to this, and it feels vastly underutilized by the general populace. Being able to try out multiple paint colors in seconds, or add real furniture or wall decor from Ikea, or move objects around instantly - it still blows my mind. |
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| ▲ | shostack 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| What tooling are you using to use this and manage it? |
