ChatGPT as Decorator

~ MaryG

My husband thinks it’s “sad” that I’ve been using ChatGPT for a lot of types of advice lately—from travel to interpersonal problems. He is not a fan. He’s especially mad about how much energy AI uses and how it’s going to drive up energy costs for all of us.

I’m sure that’s true, but at this point, I’m feeling so depressed and powerless about what’s happening in the world that I figure I might as well do little things that make me happier. As my friend Alissa said recently, “things are OK right now, but it feels as if the other shoe is about to drop.”

So while we’re waiting for that other shoe (the next pandemic; skyrocketing energy and healthcare costs; a nuclear mishap via incompetent government officials), I figured I might as well get some new curtains.

I don’t even have a picture of the old curtain panels that I’d had for 20+ years but they were completely light-blocking and needed to go. I replaced them with these light-filtering panels:

But I wasn’t sure I liked the color.

ChatGPT confirmed that she wasn’t crazy about the color either. In fact, she straight up said the curtains are a different shade of blue than the rug and that they didn’t stand up to the vibrant wall color. “The room doesn’t feel as tightly pulled together as it could.” She suggested teal curtains with teal and burnt orange accent pillows.

What do you think?

18 thoughts on “ChatGPT as Decorator”

    1. Thank you for weighing in! I can return the curtains for free via the dreaded capitalist behemoth (Amazon). We just drop off our returns at Whole Foods these days. 🤷‍♀️

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      1. Oh really?! Well that’s handy I guess. I do try and keep my Amazon purchases to a bare minimum but if I had to return something from way up here, I’d probably be better off just to try and sell it lol

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  5. I love your room—it looks so cozy. The suggestions were spot on too. I actually used ChatGPT to help me color my hair and it turned out great. I feel the same guilt you mentioned about the environmental stuff, but honestly it’s so helpful. And yeah, with everything going on, having a little distraction feels kind of necessary.

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      1. I’ve played around with AI just asking questions or searching. I haven’t graduated to photos yet. I may give that a try next.

        There’s a blogger who used AI to create music – lyrics, melody and voice. The music is sung by his characters from his novels and he recently released an entire album. It actually isn’t bad. I was floored it was all through AI

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