Why Does the Work of Interior Designers Remain Highly Valuable Despite the Growing Popularity of AI Design Tools?

As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to evolve, virtual design tools and automated layouts are growing in popularity. Now, instead of spending hours online gathering inspiration images and ideas, we can simply describe the room of our dreams. Here are a few examples:

"Please, design a modern living room in earth tones. Please, add wooden coffee table and decorate the room with greenery."

"Please, design a nursery in sage and gray tones with gold finishes and bohemian accents."

"Please, design a small kitchen with navy blue cabinets, marble countertops and navy blue appliances"

All three images are created using AI. They are undoubtedly helpful and an excellent beginning. The question is: How can we bring them to life?

This is where an interior designer's work reamins higly valuable.

1. BUDGET CONSIDERATION

   We understand that budget is important. After we have a design direction, we work with our clients to make sure that the items we are recommending are in the budget that we have discussed. An interior designer could suggest similar pieces at different price points to help the client achieve a certain look without breaking the bank.

   
   

2. FURNITURE SIZE AND PROPORTION

   Even if AI uses a photo of your actual space, the genertaed images do not include furniture dimenions. Interior Designers make sure everything fits into the space and feels proportional even before any furniture and decor orders are placed.

   
   

3. FABRICS AND FINISHES

   Are you looking for sustainable materials like linen, bamboo, and cork? Do you have kids? Do you have pets? Are we designing a high traffic area? We take all those questions into consideration to make sure that the fabrics and the finishes that we are selecting for your space are appropriate.

   
   

4. FURNITURE ORDERING, DELIVERY AND STYLING

   Interior Designers often coordinate the processes of furniture ordering, delivery, and styling. We place furniture orders through different vendors, make sure that all items are specified correctly, coordinate deliveries, and help our clients with styling their homes.

   
   

5. PERSONALITY

   AI is very helpful in bringing a certain idea to an initial visualization. From there, an interior designer could help with adding personal touches that make the spaces feel truly unique and meaningful to our clients.

   
   

6. CONNNECTIONS

   An interior designer could often recomed trusted contactors to help with making a project a reality.

   
   

   ... and most of all...

HIRING AN INTERIOR DESIGNER SAVES YOU TIME

Finding the right furinture and accsearious, oredring and coordinanting a desig project could be very time consuming. Hiring an interior designer saves you that time as we take care of those tasks for you.

Those are just a few ways in which the work of an interior designers remains highly valuable even when AI has already helped with visualizing a design idea.

So can we work with AI to design a space? Of course, but there are still many aspects and skills in the interior design process that AI cannot replace.