Will AI Make Home Renovations Easier?

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The Wall Street Journal

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🗓️ 20 September 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Whether you’re sprucing up a kitchen or gutting a house, home renovations can be stressful, complicated and expensive. But new tools using artificial intelligence are trying to take some of the struggle out of the process by helping homeowners envision their dream home and communicate with architects and contractors. WSJ real estate, architecture and design reporter Nancy Keates joins host Danny Lewis to talk about how AI is making inroads into home renovations. What do you think about the show? Let us know on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, or email us: [email protected] Sign up for the WSJ's free The Future of Everything newsletter. Further reading: Stressing Over Your Next Home Renovation Project? Let AI Handle It. The Big Risk for the Market: Becoming an AI Echo Chamber United Arab Emirates Fund in Talks to Invest in OpenAI Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	At Wren, Kitchen luxury is affordable for all.
0:04.0	With up to 60% are fully built kitchen units,
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0:24.2	Off a supply me by five and more units subject to status and minimum spend.
0:28.1	End the 25th of September.
0:30.0	How would you go about planning a home renovation?
0:37.0	Look up dream homes on real estate websites, maybe leaf through the Wall Street Journal's luxury home section. Whatever your
0:43.8	inspiration, it can be really stressful, even for the professionals.
0:47.8	I'm beating my head against the wall numerous times over and over again. Do I have the best option here? This doesn't make sense.
0:56.0	Cade Boverhoff is a contractor from the suburbs near Grand Rapids, Michigan. But for a recent project to
1:01.9	renovate one of his own houses, he kept running into a mental block.
1:06.0	So he turned to artificial intelligence for help.
1:09.0	I just thought to myself, if there was something out there that could take these limitations that I have and
1:16.0	explore all the options versus me doing three plus iterations for this one footprint it would save me a ton of time.
1:23.0	After some searching on Reddit, Boverhoff found a tool that uses AI models to help come up with
1:28.9	floor plans for home renovations. Though this being AI, there were some quarks along the way.
1:35.0	We came up with five different generations and then each of them had really
1:40.9	interesting layouts that you go I don't think I want my living room to be a
1:45.8	z shape but it gave me a really nice bedroom off the back of the house. Ultimately he says it
1:50.9	helped him settle on a final design.
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