AI Kitchen Designer

Kitchen guide

Designing a kitchen that works

Kitchens are the most expensive room to get wrong and the one where AI previews earn their keep fastest — a cabinet color you dislike costs a weekend in paint or five figures in replacement. Layout is usually fixed by plumbing, so most kitchen decisions are surface decisions.

Kitchen layouts, by situation

The mistakes that cost you most

• Choosing cabinet color from a chip. A color that reads warm on a two-inch sample reads completely different across twenty square feet under your kitchen's lighting. Preview it at full scale.
• Ignoring the work triangle. Sink, hob and fridge should form a triangle with no leg longer than about nine feet and no traffic path cutting through it.
• Under-lighting the counter. Ceiling lights put your own shadow on the worktop. Under-cabinet lighting is the highest-value upgrade in most kitchens.
• Matching every finish. All-matching cabinetry, hardware, tap and appliances reads as a showroom. One deliberate contrast — hardware against cabinet, or a different island color — is what makes it look designed.

How to photograph your kitchen for AI

Shoot from the doorway or the corner opposite the main run so the cabinetry and at least one worktop are visible. Clear the counters first — AI reads a cluttered worktop as part of the design and will often keep the clutter. Daylight, no flash.

Which styles suit a kitchen

Shaker cabinetry carries farmhouse, traditional and transitional looks and is the safest starting point. Flat-slab fronts read modern, minimalist and Japandi. Industrial suits kitchens with exposed brick or high ceilings. Coastal works where there is genuine daylight and struggles in a north-facing room. Luxury depends on material — marble and brass — more than on layout.