Mollie Amkraut Mueller uses Gemini Nano Banana and ChatGPT to design bedroom shelves. After the tool initially failed, she found reference images in ChatGPT and fed them back into Nano Banana to generate mid-brown oak shelves with lighting she liked enough to build.
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Next up, I had this project that I wanted to do or I needed ideas and inspiration for. This is a wall in my bedroom and there's now furniture in this room. But this wall is still pretty boring. We have like a little bit of art up there. But I wanted to do shelves, like maybe across the whole wall. I tried this prompt and it actually failed. So I said I needed tasteful shelves. I want them to be symmetrical, blah, blah. They need to look sophisticated. I like McGee and company, so maybe something like they would design. And it gave me this, which sucks and is not at all what I was looking for. So I actually ended up flipping into ChatGPT for this one. And ChatGPT did way better than the Nano Banana. I cannot tell you why, and I don't have any logic for when to use either, but let me just show you. So first I said, can you find me images online of walls with a similar shape that have floating shelves? I need inspiration. So it came back with a few. Like, I actually liked this one that it shared. As you know, it's not. Not the exact wall that I have here, but I just liked the look of this. So I was like, okay, we can run with this. Oh, it looks like it even already put that into my wall. And I was actually really impressed with this photo on the left because it pretty much kept the shape of the wall and where the windows were, which was awesome. Then I said, I like this reference image. Show me this on my wall. Came back with two options. The one on the left is not my wall at all. This one is not exactly my wall. But this, I was really into this. I was like, okay, cool. Like I can see this coming together. This is like kind of actually what I had in my head. I'm liking the lighting that it put. So I took the image from ChatGPT and I went back into Gemini Nano Banana and I said, can you show me this wall with the shelves in a mid brown oak wood? Just the shelf and shelves, not the wall or anything else. And it did it. So there you go. Combo of two AI tools. So honestly, like, this is kind of what I was hoping as an outcome for this project. I just wanted to see what this wall was going to look like with shelving. I loved that it gave me the shelves with some, you know, images and plans, which is what I want. And the lighting was a really awesome addition. So I think we are going to move forward with this project.
