An AI room planner that starts with your photo

Most rooms that feel wrong have a layout problem rather than a decorating problem. The sofa faces a blank wall, the desk gets no daylight, the walkway cuts straight through the seating. A new rug will not fix that, but moving three pieces of furniture might.

An AI room planner lets you test that move before you lift anything. It works from a photo, so it is not a measured floor plan, but it is a fast way to see whether an idea is worth the effort.

In a living room, Omriss offers a set of arrangements, each described by what it does to the space. If you are unsure, “AI decides” picks the layout that best suits the room’s shape, light, doors and walkways.

• Open & airy. Pull pieces to the walls and free the middle.
• Conversation. Seating faces inward around the rug.
• Face the view. Turn the seating toward the window.
• Work nook. Carve out a desk corner by the light.
• Floating sofa. The sofa in the middle, with a rug beneath it.
• Focal wall. Seating turns to the fireplace or the TV.
• Two zones. A lounge and a dining area in one open space.

If the current furniture is in the way of your imagination, clear it first. The Empty room tool removes furniture from a photo, and lets you choose to keep fixed things such as built-ins, curtains, light fixtures and rugs, so you are planning from the bare room.

From there you can try a layout, or restyle the room and see where the furniture could go.

It does not know your measurements. Doorways, radiators and the clearance around a sofa are things a tape measure should check before you buy or move anything. Treat the picture as an idea of where things could go, and measure before you commit.

If you need a drawing to scale, a dedicated floor-plan tool or a professional is the right choice. Omriss is for the moment before that, when you are still deciding what you would like.