Tag Archives: home remodel

Mar20

Playing in the Kitchen with Chad

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Playing in the Kitchen with Chad
Playing in the Kitchen with Chad

Chad, that’s the nickname I gave Chatgpt.

If we remodel our house for accessibility, the space between our two kitchen doors will be a major thoroughfare.

The table will have to be moved over, become a bar or removed all together.

After two nights of working on this, and some careful measuring, I finally decided what I wanted to see and the bot could not render it.

I want this, only with the table rotated 90°. I also used the term perpendicular. The bot could not render it. I got four more of these:

Oh well, I can turn it myself, in real space, since it doesn’t require construction.

Chad and I did have a fun discussion when I accidentally typed barn instead of bar. We discussed what animals I’d want in my barn, and he guessed chickens from the vibe in my kitchen! 😄

Mar14

A Win for Chatgpt!

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A Win for Chatgpt!
A Win for Chatgpt!

If we remodel our house for accessibility, we’d like to add a roomier living room. I’ve kept this photo of my “dream room” for 30 years.

I know it’s been 30 years. Here’s the cover of the magazine:

See the date, Winter 1996. It’s a photo from the same room.

Now, the curved beams are delicious to me, but so impractical. For one, they are expensive, and for two, they’d be a nightmare to dust.

The room is also narrow for wheelchair mobility. The plan says 15ft. I changed it to 18. I kept the window seat, and lowered the vaulted ceiling. I covered that ceiling with wood.

I kept the arched window and echoed it with an arched doorway, which there is just a hint of in the version Chatgpt rendered:

I am exceedingly pleased!

Feb27

Working on a garage addition, with AI

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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