5 Ways AI Can Elevate Your Interior Designs

AI helps us work smarter, learn faster, and even push the boundaries of imagination. Despite this magnitude of uses, integrating AI into creative disciplines like interior design raises valid ethical concerns. 

That’s why we built Onton to be your creative collaborator — to enhance and amplify your design vision rather than substitute for human creativity. Onton improves your interior design experience at every stage — from ideation to execution. 

Our AI-powered search and discovery tools can boost your creativity without removing the humanity of artistic expression, invading your privacy, or replacing design professionals. 

1. Discover endless designs to expand inspiration 

It is easy to get lost in inspiration boards pushing sponsored content or trapped in a rabbit hole of trending styles on social media feeds without making any real headway on designs. Your feed simply pushes popular trends and posts that are similar to your previously liked content. This creates a monotonous feedback loop that doesn’t foster creative breakthroughs. 

AI search engines cut through this clutter by analyzing vast databases of trends, styles, and images to create combinations from user prompts in a way that a human designer may not have considered before. For instance, our AI discovery tool, Onton Discover, saves you from scouring the web for inspiration, so you can reclaim those hours to get even more creative with your newfound concepts. 

With Discover, the images displayed are not influenced by your personal aesthetic or design habits, but instead a collection of AI images generated by other Onton users. This results in a rich blend of design inspiration that’s never curated by an algorithm. Even better, you can shop many of the products in the renderings. 

2. Generate lifelike renderings to spark infinite ideas 

Whether you’re a professional designer virtually staging a home for a client or a newbie looking to redecorate your bedroom, creating a tangible visual of a room is great for accelerating the design process. However, other methods of rendering, such as traditional sketching or 3D modeling, aren’t accessible to all crowds. These processes and platforms can be tedious and time-consuming to master. 

AI rendering tools help to sort through your ideas and visualize how a style will look in any space. With Onton Imagine you can generate endless designs based on all the ideas you have in mind. Easily jump from a Bohemian bedroom full of natural textures and earthy colors to a Coastal one full of cool tones and nautical decor. 

Simply type in a prompt, sit back, and let Onton Imagine render a realistic room in seconds. The time and mental energy saved give you more time to get renovations underway, meet with new clients, or start shopping for those perfect furniture pieces and paint colors. 

If the first rendering doesn’t come out right, simply re-render with the same prompt or reword the prompt to change the result accordingly. By including all of your preferences, such as color schemes, vibes, and decor, in the prompts, renderings align more closely with your initial concepts. Then, sort through outputs to spark new inspiration or use them to guide you toward the perfect final result.

Every rendering is unique to our AI, and we never copy the work of human artists.

3. Easily edit your designs and incorporate client feedback 

The design process isn’t a straight path. When a client receives a mockup of their new layout and wants a few changes, redoing 3D renderings, or starting fresh with a hand-drawn sketch takes valuable time away from other creative tasks.

For your personal spaces, your mind can change just as quickly. You may decide you don’t like the type of couch chosen or want a different rug. These small changes shouldn’t force you to start the process over again. 

With Onton Imagine’s edit feature, you can avoid the complete design overhaul. Easily remove or replace any unwanted or out-of-place elements. To dismiss an item, just select “remove,” highlight the item and its shadows, and re-render the image. To replace an item, like swapping a painting for a mirror, choose the “edit” option, highlight it in the rendering, and prompt “replace with mirror.” 

With these tools, you’ll reclaim your time and get projects underway, whether it's for yourself or a client. And when the inevitable last-minute changes come through, you can easily edit your design again. 

4. Customize layouts to personalize spaces 

AI-powered design can also help you create highly personalized spaces by using the dimensions and features of your existing space. Visualizing how furniture looks in the space helps you narrow down how to best arrange furniture and just where to place decor. For professional designers, you get an easy way to show clients accurate representations of their own homes, allowing them to make edits and suggestions before you begin remodeling, painting, or bringing in furniture. 

With Onton’s layout feature, you can easily clear out any existing furniture or decor pieces and get a clean slate with the same dimensions and lighting to add new pieces and aesthetics. Upload an image of the room to Onton Imagine, and use the “remove” feature to highlight all of the furniture and decor. Your data is always protected, and we never store your uploaded photos, renderings, or sketches. From there, you can experiment with dozens of different aesthetics, endlessly edit furniture pieces and decor, and re-prompt as often as you’d like. 

5. Search for the perfect piece with ease 

After all this ideation, inspiration, and layout selection, it’s time to enter the final stage of your design process: execution. Shopping for furniture and decor is a massive undertaking. Trying to use traditional search engines to locate the right piece can lead to frustrations as you dig through inaccurate searches and promoted content. Using a result-optimized AI search engine will get you to your desired result faster. 

When you finish a rendering, you can use Onton Search to find pieces that closely match the items displayed in the image. For example, crop your rendering to focus on the product you want to dupe and then scroll through dozens of options. Items can be sorted by relevancy or by highest or lowest prices. 

Find any other piece you need by using a keyword search. Just type in the product you want, and the search provides the best match possible — without prioritizing sponsored sites or providing inaccurate results. With Onton Search, you can quickly sort through millions of paintings, trinkets, and furniture and find pieces that fit any budget.

Maximize your creativity with Onton’s AI-powered search and discovery

Whether you’re a designer or a home decorator, begin your creative process with Onton. Explore, get inspiration, experiment with layouts, and locate the perfect pieces. We’ll help you locate products while you continue putting your own personal touches on the space.

Try Onton for free today! Or upgrade to one of our paid plans for all the features mentioned above.