AI Sunroom Design Generator

AI sunroom design generator result: a white framed conservatory with a hipped glass roof built onto the back of a shingle clad house, photographed from the lawn in clear morning light with a mature tree to one side. The convincing parts are the ones a camera would struggle with anyway. Cedar shingles read correctly, the sky and cloud slide across the roof glass at the right angle, the paved terrace wraps the corner properly and the two shallow steps up to the door are exactly what was asked for. Then the details start inventing themselves. A row of decorative ridge cresting with cast finials appeared along the top, which nobody requested and which is a real cost. The glazing was specified as evenly spaced equal panes and came back as a small pane grid whose squares change size from one panel to the next. None of the roof bars line up with the mullions in the wall below them. There is no gutter and no downpipe anywhere on a fully glazed roof, and where that roof meets the house it simply touches the shingles with nothing that could be called flashing.

AI sunroom design generator result: the inside of a modern glass box extension with slim matt black steel frames, a flat glazed roof, pale porcelain floor tiles and a low linen sofa, looking out at a brick garden wall and mature planting. As an image it is the most saleable of the six, and it is also the one that argued with its own brief. The prompt asked for a glazed corner with no post in it, and the model quietly put a black corner column in, which is the structurally honest answer and a useful reminder that a frameless corner is an engineered piece of glass with a hidden beam over it rather than a free choice. Everything else drifts. The horizontal transom on the left wall sits at a different height from the one on the right and neither carries around the corner. Pane widths change from wall to wall. Overcast light was specified and directional shadows arrived anyway. The roof beams on the right run out of the frame with nothing under them, the floor tile joints stop lining up as they approach the sofa, and the only connection back to the house is a folding door at the extreme left edge.

AI sunroom design generator result: a traditional three season sunroom with a vaulted white boarded ceiling, two skylights, white painted timber windows over a panelled knee wall, a terracotta tiled floor and a wicker chair, with low afternoon sun raking in from the left. The atmosphere is the whole point of a room like this and the model has it. Warm light on unglazed terracotta, the depth of the hedge through the glass, the citrus tree and the ferns all sit together believably. Measured against the brief it is looser than it looks. The two skylights were specified at even spacing and came back different sizes at different distances from the ridge. The muntin grid changes proportion between the left wall and the right wall, so the two elevations of the same room are not the same window. The knee wall turns into a deep white window bench partway along the right hand side, at a different height, and terminates against nothing. The window shadows falling across the tiles do not match the grid casting them. And there is no door out of the room anywhere in the frame.

AI sunroom design generator result: a glazed gable end extension lit from within at dusk, seen from a dark garden across wet paving, with the interior of the house visible straight through the glass. This is the best lit image in the set and probably the best argument for generating a night version at all. The falloff into the planting is right, the reflections running down the wet slabs are right, the blue of the sky is exactly the hour it claims to be, and looking through the sunroom to the original back wall of the house with its door and window still in place is a genuinely useful thing to show a household. The brief asked for light coming through a glass roof, and the roof arrived solid and tiled, so the glazing collapsed back into the gable wall alone. There is no gutter and no downpipe. The transom line across the front does not continue at the same height around the left hand return. The roof overhangs deeply on the left and not at all on the right. And a small wall clock inside has a face of unreadable marks, which is the usual place these images give themselves away.

AI sunroom design generator result: the bare timber frame of a sunroom addition standing on a concrete stem wall and slab against the rear wall of a rendered house, with rafters running back to the building and offcuts and gravel on the ground. Half of this is the most useful picture on the page, because almost no design tool will show you a sunroom with the glass out. The stem wall, the poured slab sitting inside it, the sill plate and the built up corner post are all genuinely right, and the construction debris makes it read as a site rather than a render. The other half is worth arguing with. A continuous header was asked for across the top of the openings and a galvanised beam arrived at sill height instead, propped on short cripple studs, which is not a thing that carries anything. The rafters cantilever well past the left hand wall onto no support at all. The ledger at the house shows no bolts and its flashing is laid on the surface rather than lapped into the wall. Rafter spacing widens across the frame, there are no anchor bolts visible in the sill plate, no edge insulation and no vapour barrier, and the new roof runs straight across an existing house window.

AI sunroom design generator result: a line drawing of a glazed sunroom against a plain house wall, with a hipped glass roof, a row of glazed panels with transom lights above them, a solid knee wall band along the bottom, a central double door and a hatched ground line. It is clean, square and completely free of text, which makes it the most useful of the six to put in front of a builder, and it is also the clearest picture of what these renders leave out. It is not actually an elevation. The hipped roof is drawn in perspective, with the ridge and the hip lines receding, which no elevation does. The foundation was asked for below the ground line and is missing entirely, so the building stops dead at the hatching and the most expensive part of the job is not drawn at all. The house behind is a bare rectangle with no eaves, no roof and no openings, when the eaves height of that wall is the fact that decides how much head room the new roof can have. The glazed panels are unequal widths, the transoms above them stop aligning with the mullions below on the right, the two door leaves are different sizes, the ridge line is doubled, and there is not one dimension anywhere on it.