Getting Started with Room Visualizer™ AI

Welcome. This guide will walk you through how to begin using the app, and how to get useful results without overthinking it.

Written By rlowell

Last updated 24 days ago

If you’re new, you may want to start with the “First Session Plan” below. It’s a simple way to approach your first generation so you can get a result you’re happy with right away.

0. A Simple Way to Approach Your First Session

Before we get into tools and settings, here’s a helpful way to approach your first time using the app.

Room Visualizer AI works best when you start with a clear direction. Here’s a simple way to begin:

Step 1 — Decide what you’re testing

Before uploading anything, ask yourself:

  • Are you exploring ideas on how your room could look?

  • Do you want to see how inspiration images can translate to your space?

  • Are you trying to see how specific furniture or finishes will look?

  • Are you renovating and comparing materials?

Step 2 — Gather what you need (keep it light)

Depending on your goal, you might upload:

  • Your room photo (required)

  • 1–4 inspiration images (optional)

  • Furniture or fixtures you’re considering (optional)

  • Tiles, finishes, or materials (optional, especially for kitchens/bathrooms)

You can always refine or add more later, there’s no need to set everything up perfectly before you begin.

Check out section 2. Choosing a Tool below for more detail.

Step 3 — Create a design and refine gradually

When your first result appears, take a moment to assess it.

Once you see something promising:

  • Use Tweak for smaller adjustments

  • Use Transform for larger changes

If something goes off track, you can delete that version and continue from the last one you liked.

If part of the image doesn’t look correct, you can use Fix Room to make changes.

Design tends to work best in iteration. You can compare versions and build from the strongest one.

Step 4 — Save your result

When you see a version that feels right, save it.
That becomes your reference point as you continue your home design journey.

Log in and create your first design


1. Your Dashboard

When you log in, you’ll land on your Dashboard.

This is simply where all your rooms and designs live.

Think of this like a folder. Each room you add appears here. Every result and refinement created inside that room is saved automatically.

Empty Dashboard

From the Dashboard you can:

  • Add a new room

  • Open an existing room

  • Delete a room

  • Revisit previous designs

Think of it as your design archive. You can move between rooms anytime, nothing gets lost.

To start, click Add Room, upload your space, and choose which tool you’d like to use.


2. Choosing a Tool

There are two tools inside Room Visualizer AI: Furnishing & Decorating, and Kitchen & Bathroom. They’re built for slightly different goals.

Use Furnishing & Decorating for living rooms, bedrooms, dining rooms, offices, entryways, or any general space you want to furnish or decorate.

Use Kitchen & Bathroom when you want to test finishes and materials in a kitchen, bathroom, powder room, or another space with built-in joinery.

🛋 Furnishing & Decorating

Use this for living rooms, bedrooms, dining rooms, offices, entryway, or any general space.

This tool is best when you want to:

  • Furnish and decorate a room

  • Test new furniture

  • See how decor pieces might look

  • Explore a full room makeover

  • Do a lighter styling refresh

Inside this tool, you can:

Upload Your Room Photo

Upload inspiration photos (optional)

Inspiration images guide the overall style.

If you upload a mix of different moods and styles, the results will often reflect that blend. This is great for exploration.
If you’re aiming for a more consistent look, selecting inspiration photos that feel related will usually produce a more predictable outcome.

If you don’t upload any, the AI will redesign based on your room and furniture (if any).

Choose the AI Model

Choose between two AI models (Standard & Experimental). Each model has its own strengths, and depending on your space and your goals, you may find one works better than the other.

We recommend starting with the standard model, and if result is unsatisfactory, try the experimental model.

Choose the level of change

  • Full Redesign – more open to reimagining the space

  • Styling Refresh – more focus on styling and decor

Tell the AI what to keep

If you want to keep certain items from your current photo, simply list them.

For example:

  • Keep the sofa

  • Keep the media unit

  • Keep the flooring

If you don’t specify anything, the tool has more freedom to redesign.

Upload furniture you're considering

You can upload items you’re considering like:

  • A rug

  • A sofa

  • A coffee table

  • A pendant light

  • Artwork

When you upload something, briefly describe what it is and where it should go (or leave blank if you're unsure)

Using Text Instructions

You can also include written instructions.

A few helpful tips:

  • If you have a particular design style or period in mind, uploading corresponding inspiration images or item photos will usually produce stronger results than simply naming the style in text.

  • If your first result isn’t quite what you expected, try rewording your instructions slightly and refining again.

🍽 Kitchen & Bathroom

Use this tool when you want to test finishes and materials in a kitchen, bathroom, powder room, or joinery.

This is especially helpful if you’re renovating or updating surfaces.

You can upload:

  • Tiles

  • Countertops

  • Flooring

  • Cabinet colours

  • Hardware

  • Fixtures

  • Tapware

  • Mirror

  • Lighting

When you upload them, label what they are and where it goes. Clear labels help the AI apply them more accurately.

Inspiration is especially useful here

If you’re still exploring direction, upload inspiration photos of kitchens, bathrooms, powder rooms, etc.

This allows you to see how different finish combinations might look in your own space, even before you’ve chosen specific materials.

Log in and create your first design


The Room Selector (Top Bar)

When you enter either tool, Furnishing & Decorating or Kitchen & Bathroom, you’ll notice a dropdown at the top that says something like:

Working on: Living Room

This dropdown reflects the same rooms you see on your Dashboard.

In other words:

  • Each room in the dropdown = the same room from your Dashboard.

  • If you switch rooms here, the result will be saved to the room you selected.

  • If you click New Room, you’re creating a new room — just like from the Dashboard.

All designs you create inside a tool are saved to whichever room is selected at the top.

So if you ever wonder,
“Where did my design go?”
Just check which room is selected in the top bar.

This keeps everything organised and separated by room.


Quick Tip: Where to Find Inspiration Images (If You Need Them)

If you’d like inspiration images but aren’t sure where to start, here are a few easy options:

  • Pinterest

  • Instagram

  • Publications and designer websites
    These often show full, cohesive spaces which can be helpful if you want a clear direction.

Here’s a full list of sources that I personally like to explore for inspiration.

You don’t need a large collection. A small set of consistent images is usually enough to guide your first generation.


3. StyleLens — Your Personalised Design DNA

Every professional designer starts a project by figuring out what their client is actually drawn to. That process of understanding your own taste is a big part of getting design right.

StyleLens™ lets you do that in a few clicks.

Upload 5–10 inspiration images — rooms, spaces, anything you're drawn to — and the AI builds a detailed style profile for you. It breaks down your colours, materials, textures, and overall aesthetic so you can see the patterns in what you like.

Once saved, you can apply your profile to any room you redesign. The AI uses it to guide the direction, so results feel more aligned with your taste.

A few things worth knowing:

You can create multiple profiles. This is useful if you want a different feel for different rooms or properties — a calm, warm bedroom versus a brighter kitchen, for example.

There's a colour palette override. If your inspiration images capture the mood and furniture style you want, but you'd prefer different colours, upload a single image with the palette you'd like. StyleLens will pull colours from that image instead of from your inspiration set.

You can also specify things you don't want. If there's a material, pattern, or colour you want excluded, you can note that and it won't appear in your profile.

Quick tip for empty rooms: If you upload a completely empty room, the AI often defaults to treating it as a living room. To avoid this, add 1–2 reference items that signal the room type — for a bedroom, include a bed; for a dining room, include a table. This helps the system understand the space. If your photo already has furniture in it (like a bed in a bedroom), you don't need to worry about this.

Log in and create your first StyleLens™


4. A Simple Way to Start

If you’re unsure where to begin, try this:

  1. Add room in your dashboard

  2. Create a StyleLens™

  3. Choose the tool that matches your goal.

  4. Upload your room photo.

  5. Get your first result.

  6. Refine gradually.

You don’t need to get everything in one go. Often, clarity comes from seeing one variation, then adjusting step by step.


5. A Quick Note on Results

Room Visualizer AI is built to help you visualise combinations — colour, texture, finishes, furniture — in your actual space.

It’s designed for exploration and clarity. It’s not a drafting or technical planning software, and it’s not meant for exact measurements. Use it to understand how things feel together before making decisions.

Once your design is generated, you’ll see your redesigned room alongside your original photo.

From here, you can:

  • Save the design

  • Download it

  • Fix room architecture

  • Refine it further

  • Or delete a refinement

If the first result changes the room’s architecture in a way that doesn’t match your real space, use Fix Room. This is designed to bring the architecture back to your original photo while keeping the design direction as close as possible. Sometimes it takes 2–3 tries to get a clean result, so if the first attempt doesn’t fully fix it, just run Fix Room again.

If something needs adjusting, or you’d like to try a different rug — you don’t need to start over. You can use Refine to make adjustments to your existing design.

Small adjustments can be made using Tweak.
Bigger directional changes can be made using Transform.

If a refinement doesn’t go the way you expected, you can delete that version and continue from the last one you liked. Here’s a guide on how to delete a refinement.

Design often works best in steps. Adjust gradually, and compare versions.

Log in and create your first design