The key to an efficient architectural workflow is matching each tool to the exact files you already have. In AIHouseDesign, your starting asset dictates the pipeline: an initial room list feeds directly into the floor plan generator to establish early layout concepts; once SketchUp, CAD, or another modeler exports a 2D raster sheet, the floor plan editor takes over for localized edits; and actual room or yard photos belong in dedicated interior and outdoor tools.
Disclosure: The workflow below comes from the author's use of AIHouseDesign, the product in this article. It is not a timed benchmark, a customer study, or a construction document.
A floor plan generator starts from the room list
Open the floor plan generator when you have a program and no drawing you want to keep. On the guided form, set the building type to house, apartment, condo, townhouse, or villa, and the floor count to 1 ~ 4. Total area covers those floors, in square meters or square feet. Enter bedroom, bathroom, kitchen, living room, and dining room counts, and set the garage toggle. Then pick a drawing style.
Pick Technical, Colored 2D, or 3D Isometric when someone has to read the rooms. The same control also includes Blueprint and Hand-Drawn. Add a short note when adjacency matters. "Keep the bedrooms away from the shared living room" is the kind of note to write. That field is for adjacency. The image that comes back is a concept, not a permit set.
Use the generator to get a direction ready to hand over. No published timing test covers this step. Request another concept and compare how the rooms connect before the handoff.
The tool returns one concept image. For more than one floor, the prompt tells the model to draw each floor as its own plan in that image and to line the stairs up between levels. Dimensions printed on the image are approximate. Compare room counts with the form, check that rooms connect, and check the garage. For an apartment or condo, the prompt tells the model to show shared parking access rather than a private garage inside the unit. The prompt is an instruction, so look at the image.
Custom mode can attach a reference image in one of two roles. Footprint mode treats the image as the outline: exterior footprint, proportions, entry, and marked openings. Written changes to the footprint or openings override the reference, and the model arranges the requested rooms inside that boundary. Inspiration mode follows the written dimensions and room counts. It does not copy a conflicting footprint, room program, or drawing style from the reference. Both roles render a new image. Neither copies pixels from outside a selection. Leave the generator when you need that kind of edit.
Read the credit cost on the button before you generate. The displayed cost follows the quality you selected.
A floor plan editor changes the exported image
Export a PNG, JPG, or WEBP from SketchUp, up to 10MB, and upload it to the floor plan editor. The editor reads that image. It does not open a SketchUp document. Any modeler that writes one of those formats can feed the same step.
Use Brush for a change in one region. Select the region and describe the change, such as replacing the furniture in one room or removing an object there. The editor composites source pixels from outside the mask into the result, so the rest of the sheet stays as exported.
Point Edit marks up to three objects. Each marker gets its own instruction. There is no mask. Hold the comparison control and look at the source before you accept the result, because neighboring lines stay in place only when the model follows the instruction.
Labels and Style apply to the whole drawing. Use them for annotation layers, label language, units, or a different top-down style. Marks you did not name can move.
Edit the result next if you want to continue from it. Return to the original export if the result is wrong.
A mask can keep the outside pixels and draw the selected room wrong. Point edits and style changes can move walls, labels, or dimensions you meant to keep. The editor does not recover a true scale, and it does not certify the plan for a permit. The download is a PNG, and access depends on the account's download entitlement. The apply button shows the credit cost for the quality you selected.
Keep interior design on the photograph
A floor plan describes how the rooms of a dwelling sit together. Interior design questions belong to a room you can photograph.
Open a room planner to test zones, walking paths, furniture placement, and storage in that photo before anyone moves a sofa. The interior design tool takes the same kind of photo and compares layout, materials, color, and lighting. Keep the room photo out of the floor plan generator. That tool builds a dwelling layout from the room list, not from the photograph.
Take the yard from the photo
Use the outdoor tools when a scheme needs a yard direction. They can show arrangements you have not drawn. Choose from those arrangements for the next version. Treat a preferred picture as a direction. It is not a measured improvement.
For the rear yard, start with backyard design ai. Upload a daylight photo that shows the yard, the house edge, doors, windows, mature trees, and any boundary you can see. Template mode takes one use: Relax & Lounge, Entertaining & Dining, Family & Play, Poolside Retreat, Garden Retreat, or Multi-Zone. It also takes one of eight styles and up to six elements from the planting list and the amenity list. Custom mode takes a written brief of 3 to 500 characters and clears the template fields. You can request one to four concepts. Each successful image uses one credit.
The backyard pass stays on the rear yard. Garden design is the planting-focused tool. A landscape pass, in the broader landscaping tool, covers the property at a larger scale. Keep facade changes out of the backyard tool. Drainage, plant survival, structure, pool safety, and local rules go to a person qualified to sign that work.
Checks before the handoff
Before you send the image, answer four questions.
1. Was the input a room list, an exported plan image, or a yard photo, and did you open the matching tool?
2. On an export edit, did you mask the region you meant to change? If you used points or a whole-drawing style, did you compare the parts you hoped to keep against the source?
3. Do the room counts, doors, and labels match the brief, with printed dimensions treated as approximate?
4. Is the next meeting about direction? A measured drawing is a later job.
On the next job, generate from the room list, edit the raster if a modeler has produced the sheet, and open a photo tool for interior design or for the yard. Backyard design, garden design, and landscape ideas stay on that photo track. After that, the image goes to someone who can check dimensions, structure, services, and local rules.