Testing 12 AI Tools for Interior Design: Finding the Best Fit for Your Room

Thinking about using AI to design your home? Tools like Midjourney are great for wild ideas, but practical design is harder.

Finding realistic designs with real furniture that fits your space? That's a different challenge. This post looks at testing 12 specific AI interior design tools to see what's possible and if they can really help with your next project.

The Problem with General AI for Interior Design

AI image tools create amazing images. But for home design, you need more than just pretty pictures. You need designs that fit your room size, include furniture you can actually buy, and don't take hours of figuring out prompts.

This is why looking at tools built specifically for interior design makes sense. Do they solve these problems?

How We Tested the Tools

We searched online for AI interior design tools and picked 12 that looked promising. We tested each one systematically. We looked at factors like:

• User interface (how easy is it to use?)

• Cost (is there a free trial? Subscription?)

• Input and Output (what do you upload, and what do you get back?)

• Iteration (can you refine the design?)

• Practicality (does it include real furniture? Does it consider dimensions?)

We tested most tools using photos of a living room and a bedroom. These rooms offered different design challenges.

Reviewing the AI Interior Design Tools

RoomGPT

You upload a photo and pick themes. It gives initial ideas for color and texture. The free credits let you try it.

Downsides: You can't give feedback to change the design. It often didn't understand the existing room layout correctly. It's fun for getting quick starting points but limited for refining ideas.

Reimagine Home AI

This tool allowed tweaking prompts for style and color. Input was a photo, but output could be surprising, sometimes not fitting the initial style or color requests well.

It did attempt layout changes, which was interesting. Some designs were cohesive for a specific style (like Farmhouse for the bedroom), but paying to download with no watermark is required. Figuring out prompts felt similar to general AI tools like Midjourney needing specific input.

Managing prompts and generating many variations can be time-consuming. For designers or enthusiasts working with Midjourney and needing a faster way to manage prompts and variations, consider the Midjourney Automation Suite from TitanXT. It helps streamline your creative process.

Interior AI

This one had different modes like virtual staging and interior design, with many styles. Example images looked good, but testing hit a paywall immediately.

Kolov GPT

Offers redesigning spaces or an AI chat function. For redesign, you upload a photo. Picking "well designed" meant big structural changes. "Structure preserved" still made big changes, often ignoring things like fireplaces or ceiling slopes.

The generated images were very pretty, like magazine photos, with new layouts. But they often disregarded the actual room space. The furniture linking tool was not accurate, showing random items instead of what was in the image. This tool seems focused on high-end visuals over practicality right now. The AI chat was not useful in testing.

AI Room Planner

Upload a photo, pick a style, get one idea rendered. It kept the color palette and made reasonable design refreshes. Designs felt proportional and realistic.

Main issue: Takes a while to load each picture. No option to edit or prompt further after the first result. Good for getting basic ideas quickly.

Hestia

This is a more complete service. You describe your project, take a style quiz, add preferences, and upload inspiration images. A major feature is using augmented reality to scan your space and create an accurate floor plan.

The AR scanning was impressive and accurate. The service provides 2D floor plans and later 3D renders. It's a longer process (days instead of minutes). They offer discounts, making it interesting for larger projects requiring detailed plans.

Home Designs AI

This tool lets you upload a photo and adjust levers for results. You can control intervention level, number of designs, and use prompts and styles. Designs were quite good and responsive to prompts (like 'kid friendly eclectic').

It understood structural details like sloped roofs better than some others. There's an 'enhance' feature, but its effect wasn't clear. A "Precision Plus" feature lets you pick a specific area to redesign, like adding an office desk. Costs $27/month, best for active projects.

Two Tree

A furniture shopping service, not pure AI image generation. You provide dimensions and photos, and a human designer suggests furniture that fits your style and space. You get a floor plan and furniture proposals with links to buy from real stores.

Advantages: Designers vet dimensions, items are from known retailers, no markup on furniture. Good for furnishing Airbnb quickly or translating an AI image idea into a shoppable list. A discount code makes this service free for subscribers to try.

Full House (Ludwig AI)

AI tool (Ludwig) linked to a furniture resale company (Full House). You upload an inspiration photo (not your room photo). The AI suggests furniture on theme with the photo.

It provides creative ideas and suggests contract-grade, quality furniture. The software is free, they make money selling furniture. Downside: It ignores your actual room dimensions and layout. You have to manually check if suggestions fit your space.

Archie

Upload photo, pick style, generate image. Design quality was generally fine. However, it didn't understand room structure well. Styles didn't always match the output. Images had a blurry quality. Offers few free images, then $15/month. Not the most impressive compared to others.

Home Styler

Very detailed and customizable. You can import floor plans, add exact details (flooring, windows), and furnish from a large library. Can create video tours and high-quality renders with custom lighting.

The AI auto-styler feature was hard to get working. The floor planner part is free. Accessing AI features costs $5-10/month. Requires a lot of user time to build the floor plan, best for those already using similar software or needing detailed mockups.

While Home Styler offers detailed manual control, AI tools are becoming more powerful for initial design ideas. If you use AI for generating concepts, managing your outputs can become overwhelming. Tools like the Midjourney Automation Suite from TitanXT can help organize, manage, and iterate on your designs more efficiently.

Spoke

This tool seemed more like a Pinterest board. You build basic room walls but then just add flat images/magazine clippings, not 3D furniture drawn to size. It costs money and wasn't functional for design purposes in testing.

Spacely

Offers a 3-day free trial. Features include furniture detection from images (results varied, better for realistic images) and design idea generation. Upload a photo, pick a style, get up to four designs with before/after sliders. Designs were nice and realistic, keeping original layout elements.

A key feature is changing individual objects within a design using prompts. It also lists color palettes and links to potential furniture purchases (though not always exact items). Costs apply after the trial. Good for inspiration and limited object changes.

The Verdict: What Works Now

The perfect all-in-one AI interior design tool doesn't exist yet. Many tools generate pretty pictures but don't handle practicality like room size or real products well. However, different tools are good for different steps in the design process:

For Generating Ideas:

Home Designs AI was a favorite. It responded well to prompts, offered good designs, and is customizable. Spacely is another good option for ideas, especially with its free trial and object-specific editing.

For Translating Ideas into Purchasable Furniture:

Once you have an AI-generated image you like, tools can help find real furniture. Full House (Ludwig) is free and finds furniture themes but ignores dimensions. Two Tree and Hestia are paid services ($150 range) that use designers to find furniture that fits your space based on your AI image or needs. Two Tree and Hestia offer discounts worth exploring.

Even with these tools, generating the initial creative concepts often starts with platforms like Midjourney. Managing multiple iterations and variations from Midjourney can be challenging. Automating parts of this workflow with a tool like the Midjourney Automation Suite from TitanXT can significantly speed up the process of finding the right visual direction before moving to a dedicated interior design tool for practicality.

Final Thoughts

AI for interior design is still developing. No single tool does everything perfectly yet. But by combining different tools – one for ideas and another for finding furniture – you can get closer to using AI for practical home design projects.

Let us know in the comments if you've tried any of these or other AI design tools!