The Intelligent Designer (@intelligent.designer.ai): Stacey Thorwart transforms traditional design processes using AI tools. As a practicing interior designer, she demonstrates practical applications of ChatGPT for space planning, mood board creation, and client presentations — bridging the gap between AI potential and real-world design practice.
Is It Legal to Use ChatGPT for Interior Design?
The ethics of emerging technologies are never guaranteed to remain static, but currently, ChatGPT offers a particularly appealing legal framework for design projects. All generated content is completely royalty-free, meaning you can confidently use AI-created designs for client presentations, commercial interior projects, social media content, or personal home renovations without licensing restrictions or copyright complications.
Since the designs emerge from your custom inputs and creative direction, you retain full ownership of the concepts, giving you the freedom to adapt, modify, and implement them however you choose. As long as you’re comfortable with the technology, ChatGPT offers an accessible, powerful tool for exploring spatial potential. The key is approaching it as a collaborative creative partner rather than a one-stop solution, and you’ll need some basic design appreciation for optimal results (which, if you’re reading this, you likely already possess).
The Best AI Tools for Interior Design and Home Renovations
Here, we have rounded up some of our favourite AI home design tools; they are easy to grasp, intuitive and a friendly gateway to understanding how artificial intelligence can be helpful.
Decorilla
Decorilla takes a different approach entirely of AI-aided interior design. This female-founded platform was created with the belief that artificial intelligence should enhance designers, not replace them. It tackles a real industry problem: quality design advice has traditionally been limited by budget and location. Instead of going full automation, Decorilla pairs AI visualisation technology with a network of 350 professional designers. The process starts like most AI tools: you upload photos, fill out a style questionnaire, and set your budget, but then real designers take over to create comprehensive design schemes with concept previews, detailed renderings, and shoppable product lists. The AI tools handle technical heavy lifting for visualisations, while human designers bring the creative vision, cultural awareness, and personal touch.
ChatGPT
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ChatGPT has quietly become a go-to resource for design problem-solving, even though it lacks the visual interface of specialised design tools. Its strength lies in understanding complex design briefs and providing detailed, reasoned responses to the endless questions that come up during projects. The key to unlocking ChatGPT’s potential lies in crafting specific, detailed prompts. For layout challenges like “I have a 12×15 ft living room with a large window – where should I place my sofa and TV?”, it generates multiple options with reasoning. It excels at colour scheme development, budget-conscious shopping lists, and can even create visual renders when prompted for specific styles.
RoomGPT
RoomGPT offers a very user-friendly approach to AI interior design, requiring only an uploaded photo, room type selection, and style preference to generate redesigns in seconds. The platform features a catalogue of design styles, including a raft of well-known designers. It’s great for beginners who think in terms of celebrity aesthetics rather than abstract design concepts. Meanwhile, a three-step process makes it easy to navigate, though the tool lacks text input options for custom requests, limiting users to working within their existing architectural framework. Note: Prepare for less polished renders, but a great starting point for inspiration.
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