Blueprint :Cabinet Design - Introducing Photo-Real Render

Photo-Real Render turns your 3D room into a photorealistic image with AI — but the button is the easy part. The prompt is where most people get stuck. This post covers how the feature actually works, then walks through two real builds, start to finish, with the exact prompts we used at every step.

How Photo-Real Render Works

Open the button from the 3D room editor toolbar (or from Photo Mode). It captures your current view, sends it off for AI rendering, and gives you back a photorealistic image — usually in under 15 seconds.

Before you generate, you choose a mode:

Keep Existing Materials improves lighting and realism while leaving your materials, colors, and finishes exactly as designed. Good for a straightforward realistic pass on a room you've already assigned real materials to in Photo Mode.

Reimagine Materials freely reassigns materials, colors, and finishes based on your prompt. This is what you want when you're exploring — trying a palette you haven't committed to in the app yet, or testing an idea before you touch a single material picker.

Once you have a result, you're not done — Edit lets you refine it with another prompt without starting from scratch, and Upscale takes it to 4K. Both work on whatever you're currently looking at, so you can edit an edit, chain changes, and build up a result over a few small steps instead of one giant prompt.

Case Study: A Kitchen

Here's the room as designed in Blueprint — cabinet layout, countertop shape, appliances, all placed and dimensioned, no materials rendered yet.

Primary Render — Navy and Gold

Mode: Reimagine Materials. The first line of the prompt is doing the real work here — it tells the AI exactly what not to touch.

Modern premium kitchen, preserve the exact existing kitchen layout, cabinet geometry, countertop shape, appliances, walls and room structure. Deep muted navy-blue cabinet faces with brushed gold face frames and handles, white quartz countertop with subtle grey veining, warm off-white subway tile backsplash, stainless steel appliances, warm natural wood floor, soft natural daylight, realistic materials, refined contemporary styling, photorealistic interior photography.

Edit 1 — Warm Oak, Scandinavian

Same layout, completely different mood. Note this prompt doesn't repeat any of the "preserve the layout" instruction from the first one — an edit already knows what it's editing, you only need to describe what's changing.

Replace the navy-blue and gold palette with warm natural oak cabinet faces, soft matte off-white face frames and handles, light beige quartz countertop with subtle warm veining, pale warm stone or cream backsplash, brushed stainless steel appliances, light natural oak floor, soft warm daylight, calm Scandinavian-inspired styling.

Edit 2 — Deep Red and Burgundy

A second edit applied on top of the first, going bolder — and this one also changes a piece of furniture, not just materials.

Replace the current palette with rich deep red and burgundy cabinet faces, dark wine-red face frames and handles, warm light stone countertop with subtle veining, soft neutral backsplash, and brushed stainless steel appliances. Give the kitchen a bold, sophisticated contemporary feel with warm balanced lighting and realistic premium materials. Change the existing table to a sleek dark frame with a translucent deep red glass tabletop.

Case Study: An Audio-Video Room

Same idea, different room — this one starts from a media/listening room layout instead of a kitchen.

Primary Render — Walnut and Forest Green

Audio-video listening room. Style the media cabinet in dark walnut with matte charcoal fronts and subtle brushed metal handles. Use matching warm walnut tones for the wall shelving, soft warm off-white walls, natural oak flooring, a refined geometric wool rug in muted earth tones, and deep forest-green upholstered seating. Soft warm indirect daylight mixed with subtle ambient interior lighting.

Edit 1 — Dark Audiophile Studio

One instruction in here is worth calling out on its own: "keep the speakers and electronics prominent and realistic." When you're restyling a room built around specific gear, naming the thing that must stay recognizable is as important as describing what should change.

Transform the room into a darker audiophile studio aesthetic with matte graphite walls, black-stained oak media cabinetry and shelves, smoked glass details, dark charcoal upholstery, a restrained black and deep burgundy rug, and subtle warm amber accent lighting. Keep the speakers and electronics prominent and realistic.

Edit 2 — 1970s Hi-Fi Lounge

From here, a full swing into a specific era rather than just a color shift — this is the same edit-on-an-edit pattern as the kitchen's second version, just leaning on a named style instead of a mood.

Restyle it as an elegant 1970s-inspired hi-fi lounge with rich teak and walnut cabinetry, warm cream walls, burnt-orange and mustard accents, deep olive-green seating, a bold retro geometric rug, smoked amber glass details and warm brass touches.

Patterns Worth Stealing

A few things both examples above have in common, worth carrying into your own prompts:

Lead with what to preserve, not just what to change. The kitchen's first prompt opens with "preserve the exact existing kitchen layout, cabinet geometry, countertop shape, appliances, walls and room structure" before it says a single word about color. That's what keeps Reimagine Materials from quietly redesigning your cabinets instead of just re-skinning them.

Name real materials, not vague adjectives. "Deep muted navy-blue cabinet faces with brushed gold face frames" gives the AI something concrete to render. "Nice modern kitchen" doesn't.

Use edits for one focused change at a time. Every edit prompt above changes a palette or a mood — not the whole scene description over again. Chaining three or four small, specific edits gets you further than one prompt trying to describe everything at once.

Call out what must stay recognizable. "Keep the speakers and electronics prominent and realistic" is a one-line insurance policy against the AI treating your actual gear as just more scenery to restyle.

Available Soon

Photo-Real Render will be available soon on macOS, with iPad and iPhone support on the way.

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