A New Crop of AI Apps Could Help Streamline Home Renovations

WSJ Your Money Briefing

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🗓️ 14 June 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Homeowners are experimenting with AI apps to find style ideas, visualize layouts, and coordinate with designers. These new tools say they can help save time and money in the building and renovation process. WSJ reporter Nancy Keates joins host J.R. Whalen to discuss how some of the apps work. Sign up for the WSJ's free Markets A.M. newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:17.0	Here's your money briefing for Friday June 14th. I'm J.R. Whelan for the Wall Street Journal.
0:26.8	Doing renovations to your home can be time-consuming and expensive, not to mention the endless
0:32.2	decisions and reams of paperwork involved just to get
0:35.3	out of the planning stages. A new crop of AI apps could streamline the process.
0:41.2	In general, they make the design and construction process more accessible to non-professionals.
0:46.4	It can also be difficult to imagine what your space will look like after a renovation,
0:50.9	and these apps help you visualize that. Traditionally, if you ask a designer to
0:55.2	reimagine a space, you get a few options back like a week or more later and these
0:59.8	apps can generate hundreds of possibilities in minutes.
1:03.0	We'll talk with Wall Street Journal reporter Nancy Keats, after the break. The Capital Ideas Podcast now has a new monthly edition hosted by Capital Group CEO Mike
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1:33.0	subscribe wherever you get your podcast American Funds Distributors Inc. More homeowners are turning to AI apps to help plan construction and
1:48.1	renovation projects. Wall Street Journal reporter Nancy Keats joins me.
1:52.2	Nancy what drove the demand for these apps? Wall Street Journal reporter Nancy Keats joins me.
1:53.0	Nancy, what drove the demand for these apps?
1:55.6	It's AI everything these days,
1:57.8	but it's also what's happening in the housing market.
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