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Back to the Drawing Board…

Back to the Drawing Board…
Back to the Drawing Board…

or graph paper, if you will.

After more measuring and discussion with my husband, I returned to Chatgpt (AI app) to work on our garage design. After entering measurements and choosing options, it rendered this:

The garage is nice, but not right. The house looks nothing like our existing house. I made suggestions, and got this:

No. It had even asked if I wanted windows in the garage doors. I said, no, not yet. It very nicely generated a diagram of object arrangement:

Close, but the street is on the bottom. The bot and I agreed I should drag out my ruler, my pencil and some graph paper.

Working on a garage addition, with AI

Working on a garage addition, with AI
Working on a garage addition, with AI

We need more garage space. Our lot is generous, but not near the existing garage.

Existing garage

In the wee hours, I was playing with the idea of adding a garage with two bays, perpendicular to our current garage.

I photographed and flipped an image from an old house plan I had saved.

I printed and colored the flipped image with colored pencils.

After much discussion about available space, I uploaded my colored drawing into the Chatgpt ( AI-Artificial intelligence) App(lication.) It rendered this:

AI rendering

You can see it’s not exactly what I asked for. I was too tired to ask it to tweak it. I will in the future, and ask the chat (ro)bot to fit it to our existing garage. It’s amazing what it can do, but it also has drawbacks. I learned that every change I ask for, the program “rerenders” the whole composition. It’s both fun and frustrating to work with.

#the100dayproject2026, Day 5