Transforming Spaces: Using AI to make Your Dream Living Room looke like an Irish funeral home

 Today I started watching a documentary about Ireland. I am making a product for my store on TPT which has students using Google earth to find special locations in Ireland. Its strange how I get ideas for teacher lessons while messing around on Bing AI creating living rooms. While watching the documentary, I got inspired and created the following prompt inspired by Ireland and Saint Patrick's cathedral.

 "Create an image of a living room with 1 chesterfield three cushion sofa, the walls and ceiling are decorated with Cast-iron rainwater goods, and the wall paper is inspired by the monastic ruins of Ireland. Snecked calp limestone walls with cut limestone quoins, corbel tables, and string courses. Stepped pilaster buttresses to all elevations, some with niches. Cut limestone plinth course. There is one green velvet chair."

 Clearly those images suck. They really suck. That place looks like a funeral home, an ugly ass funeral home that Opus Dei members find appealing. So I beefed up, or at least tried to with this prompt, "Create a warmer space, and add some Celtic crosses, and an Art Nuveau rug inspired by Celtic prints, green, gold, white, cream in rich velvety colors"

 

 Much better, feels feels less like a funeral home and more like the Pope's sitting room. The important thing to not in the images is the difference ceilings and floors make in a room. They make a big difference, so if you have a formal sofa, a square table and a TV, one of the first things you can do is throw in a nice bright red rug. I mean - Beijing China red. Even Truman Capote's infamous Black and White ball of 1966 still had a pop of color. Babe Paley insisted - if everyone wears black and white then there must be red tablecloths.

"Add some warm white pillows with olive green branches on the furniture. Add framed Irish Art Nuveau posters on the wall"

 I feel pretty confident this prompt has reached its end, and I need to rethink this design. However, we can have a little fun.

When faced with the initial suckage of AI-generated living room design, one couldn't help but feel that this was less a cozy, inviting space and more an aesthetic purgatory, seemingly designed to deter any semblance of warmth or humanity. It bore the unmistakable air of a funeral home, or a move set for the Exorcist. One couldn't help but consider summoning an exorcist, for the room exuded the kind of eerie atmosphere that would make even the most haunted of mansions appear hospitable. This feels like the kind of space for signing one's last will and testament.

It was as if the headquarters of Opus Dei had undergone a particularly lugubrious makeover, with the walls and ceiling adorned with cast-iron rainwater goods that seemed to weep for the very notion of good taste. It just feels like few good things happen in this space, or that several children were molested here in years past.

In sum, this was not a living room but a living nightmare, a testament to the AI's capacity to conjure an atmosphere so bleak that it seemed to herald the arrival of a ghostly procession rather than a convivial gathering of friends.