Hey friends! Thanks for checking out our newest interior design tool, Sandcastle. We noticed it takes hours to create a design board because there are so many manual steps involved:
1. Download the furniture image from the retailer's website
2. Open in Photoshop
3. Remove the white background (all product images are JPGs)
4. Scale it properly (by eye)
5. Distort to show perspective (also by eye)
6. Drag into place
Sandcastle automates all the repetitive steps (1-5), so all you have to do is drag furniture/accessories into place (step 6). It removes the backgrounds from products automatically, places them in the room with the right scale and perspective, and then creates a list of all the products in the room with links.
It will take 30 seconds to try out a dozen coffee tables, instead of minutes each.
We're still building it and open to feature requests, let us know what you think!
This is very interesting, I've used the amazing https://spaces.archilogic.com/ but was frustrated as you couldn't import anything, and the items were limited to their catalog. I still think you might have a hard time competing with such products, 3d visualisation helping a lot when creating interior design: Any plans on going 3d?
Cheers!
@widawskij Thanks Jonathan. 3D would definitely be higher fidelity, but we'd run into the same limited catalog issue. Furniture models are unfortunately hard to come by.
Instead, we've found our auto-scaling and auto-perspective features give a nice balance between 2D and 3D.
Designers (and involved homeowners) will be able to create boards like this in half the time and get much more realistic results: https://stuccco.com/photos/6d612...
@basictechy You should be getting a confirmation email soon.
You'll be able to export designs as images but we hadn't thought about embedding directly. What kind of site would you be interested in embedding designs in?
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