Your photo 1Photograph the kitchen
One photo from the doorway. A phone snap is enough — no measuring, no floor plan, no 3D model, and the clutter on the counter does not matter.
Free to try
AI kitchen design, generated from one photo
Photograph your kitchen, describe the cabinet colour, countertops and backsplash you want, and see it rendered into your own room in seconds. Pick a question and a direction below — every before and after on this page is a real homeowner’s kitchen, unretouched.
What should change in the kitchen?
Remodel this kitchen in a bright modern style: white shaker cabinets, white quartz countertops, matte black hardware, and a white subway tile backsplash.
Designing rendered in 7s
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What it isA photo-realistic redesign of your own kitchen photo — cabinets, counters, backsplash, hardware, the whole run — free to try, in the browser or the app.
What it isn’tA floor-plan or layout tool. There are no measurements, no drawings and no drag-and-drop — it works from the photo, not a plan.
One honest caveatThe AI sometimes misses an instruction. Read every render against the sentence you typed, and run it again if it skipped something.
How it works
Three steps, about a minute
No floor plan, no 3D model, no showroom appointment. The photo you can take from the kitchen doorway right now is the input — dishes in the sink and all.
Your photo Type the change you want
Your words Remodel this kitchen in a bright modern style: white shaker cabinets, white quartz countertops, matte black hardware, and a white subway tile backsplash.
2Describe the change
Type it the way you would say it to a contractor. Name one surface or redo the whole kitchen — everything you do not mention stays put.
7s The render 3See the kitchen designed
A photorealistic render of that change in your kitchen, in seconds. Keep it, swap the cabinet colour, or run another direction on the same photo.
The render above came back in 7 seconds. Run the same kitchen photo through three cabinet colours and you have a decision before the paint store closes.
Every surface
What you can change
A whole remodel or a single surface — just the cabinets, just the counters, just the backsplash. Every image below is a real render from a real homeowner photo.
Cabinets
Repainted or fully replaced. Cabinet colour is the biggest single lever in a kitchen and the hardest thing to judge from a 2-inch paint chip.
Change cabinet colour with AI
Countertops
Quartz, marble, butcher block, honed stone. See the slab against your own cabinets and your own light before you pay for a template.
Remodel a kitchen from a photo
Backsplash tile
Subway, zellige, terracotta, slab. Tile samples propped against the wall never look like a finished run — a render does.
Pick a backsplash colour
Hardware & fixtures
Matte black, brushed gold, polished nickel, brass. The cheapest change in the kitchen and the one that sets its whole temperature.
Choose a cabinet colour
Layout & shelving
Open shelving instead of uppers, an island where the peninsula is, a wall of pantry. Good for imagining, not for planning — a photo cannot see your plumbing.
Redesign a kitchen in order
Small kitchens
Galley kitchens and apartment kitchens you cannot back out of to photograph. One shot from the doorway is enough to see the whole run redone.
Design a small kitchenPrefer to read it first? Is there an app where I can take a picture of my kitchen and remodel it? walks the whole thing through step by step, and how to change cabinet colour using AI goes deeper on the colour decision itself.
App, software or tool?
A free kitchen design app that starts from your photo
Call it a kitchen design app, a free kitchen design tool or kitchen design software — the thing people actually want is the same: show me my kitchen with different cabinets before I commit to them. This is that. It runs in the browser and as a free app on iPhone and Android, and the only input is a photo.
It is not a kitchen layout planner. There is no floor plan, no measurements and no cabinets to drag around — if you need to know whether an island leaves 42 inches of clearance, a tape measure beats any free online kitchen design tool. What a photo-based tool is good at is the question a plan cannot answer: what would it look like?
The five renders below are the same three kitchens from the top of the page — the builder-grade kitchen, the espresso kitchen and the honey-oak kitchen — run through five more directions, prompts included. Two of them got something wrong, and the captions say what.
9s Oak — but the wrong oak
“Remodel this kitchen in a Scandinavian style: pale oak flat-panel cabinets and island, white quartz countertops, a plain white square tile backsplash, slim black handles and a white range hood. Keep the window, the island, the appliances and the floor exactly where they are.”
We asked for pale flat-panel oak and got raised-panel oak a shade off honey, plus a white island nobody asked for. It heard the wood and not the style. Left in on purpose: “Scandinavian” is not a spec, “flat slab doors, no raised panels” is.
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7s Forest green & butcher block
“Remodel this kitchen with dark green shaker cabinets and a matching island, butcher block countertops, a white zellige tile backsplash, brushed brass cup pulls and knobs, and a brass faucet. Keep the window, the island, the appliances and the floor exactly where they are.”
The clutter on the counter is still there, which is the point — this is your kitchen on a Tuesday, repainted. It kept the herringbone backsplash instead of switching to zellige; the colour and the wood are exactly right.
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8s Black, white oak & marble
“Remodel this kitchen in a modern style: matte black flat-panel cabinets, a white oak island with a white marble-look countertop, a full-height white marble slab backsplash, black fixtures and a slim black range hood. Keep the window, the island, the appliances and the floor exactly where they are.”
The biggest swing of the five. The uppers on the back wall stayed white, so what came back is two-tone rather than all black — a happy accident worth keeping, and a reminder to say “all cabinets” when you mean all.
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6s Espresso to greige
“Paint the dark espresso cabinets a light warm greige with brushed nickel hardware. Keep the white subway tile backsplash, the quartz countertops, the range and the floor exactly as they are.”
One sentence, one change. The peninsula on the right kept a strip of espresso, which is the kind of thing you spot in two seconds on a render and two weeks into a paint job.
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8s Keep the oak, fix the rest
“Keep the honey oak cabinets but replace the countertops with white quartz, add a white zellige tile backsplash on the bare wall behind the range, swap the hardware for matte black and remove the tile samples from the counter. Keep the range and the cabinets exactly where they are.”
The mid-project kitchen, finished without painting a door. White quartz and a white tile run make the oak read as a choice instead of a leftover. The gas line on the wall is real and still there.
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Want a direction before you type one? Modern kitchen ideas and corner kitchen cabinet ideas are the same engine run on other real kitchens — pick the one you keep coming back to, then run it on yours.
The question we get most
Does it work on honey oak?
Dark cabinets going light is the easy case. The harder question is the opposite one: my cabinets are honey oak, can AI show me those painted? We ran it on a real homeowner photo taken mid-project — bare backsplash wall, tile samples still propped against it, no colour chosen yet.
Creamy white Creamy white
“Paint the honey oak cabinets a creamy warm white. Keep the stainless range, the cream stone countertops and the tile samples propped against the wall exactly as they are.”
White is what most people picture when they say “update the oak.” Notice what it costs: the cream counters now read as the warmest thing in the frame. If your counters lean beige, white cabinets push them yellower, not cleaner.
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Deep forest green Deep forest green
“Paint the honey oak cabinets a deep forest green with brushed brass hardware. Keep the stainless range and the cream stone countertops exactly as they are.”
Green does the opposite of white: it makes the cream counters read as light and deliberate instead of dated. This is where a preview earns its keep, because almost nobody can picture a dark saturated colour in their own kitchen from a paint chip.
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Two-tone charcoal Two-tone charcoal
“Paint only the lower oak cabinets deep charcoal and leave the upper glass-front cabinets in natural oak. Keep the stainless range and the cream stone countertops exactly as they are.”
Two-tone is the answer for people who like their oak but not all of it. Dark below, wood above: the lowers ground the room and take the abuse, the uppers keep the warmth.
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One caveat worth knowing before you read your own render: look closely at the two-tone version and the double-oven range from the original came back as a cooktop with drawers under it. Nobody asked for that. The colour is real; the inventory is not. Trust the hue and the way the room’s light changes, verify the appliances and the hardware, and never hand a render to a contractor as a spec.
Straight answers
What it is, and what it isn’t
A kitchen render is a decision tool. It answers “would I like my kitchen like this?” in seconds, for free, before a cabinet shop quotes you.
- It keeps your kitchen. Cabinet runs, window, ceiling height and camera angle stay where they are, so you are comparing finishes — not a different house.
- It’s free to start. New accounts get credits to design your own photos, no card needed.
- It’s fast enough to iterate. Seven to ten seconds a render means you try five cabinet colours instead of committing to the first one.
- The inventory is not guaranteed. Appliances, hardware and the odd fixture can come back rebuilt on the way through. Judge the colour and the finish, not the model number of the range.
- It is not a quote or a plan. A render will not price your cabinets and it cannot see your plumbing, your gas line or your load-bearing wall. It will tell you which kitchen is worth pricing.
Questions
AI kitchen design, answered
Is the AI kitchen design free?
Yes. New accounts get free credits to design your own kitchen photos with no card, and the free tier stays available after that. Pro unlocks higher volume, higher-resolution downloads and unwatermarked exports. Every before and after on this page was produced on the same engine you get for free.
Can AI design my kitchen from a photo?
That is exactly what this does. Photograph the kitchen from the doorway, say what you want in plain English, and Renovate AI renders that design into your photo — same cabinets, same window, same camera angle. It is your kitchen, not a catalog picture of someone else’s.
Can it show me my cabinets in a different colour?
Yes, and it is the most common thing people ask it for. Name the colour the way you would to a painter — "sage green", "creamy warm white", "deep navy with brushed gold hardware" — and it repaints the doors while holding the counters, the backsplash and the appliances. The cabinet-colour examples above are a real dark espresso kitchen repainted three ways.
Does it work on honey oak cabinets?
Yes, and oak is the case worth testing before you commit, because oak going light behaves differently from dark going light. The honey-oak section on this page is one real mid-project kitchen painted three ways. One thing a render will not tell you: oak has deep open grain, and painted oak still reads as oak in person unless someone fills that grain first. A render gives you a smoother door than a painter will.
Can I try a backsplash before I buy the tile?
Yes. Backsplash is a large flat surface with clear edges, which is exactly the kind of change a render gets right. Describe the tile and the lay pattern — "muted dusty blue subway tile, brick lay" — and it fills the run while keeping the cabinets and counters. Beats propping a 6-inch sample against the wall and squinting.
Is there an AI kitchen design app?
Yes. Renovate AI runs on iPhone and Android as well as in the browser, so you can stand in the kitchen, photograph it and redesign it on the spot. The same account and the same renders follow you across every device.
How accurate are the kitchen renders?
The render keeps your kitchen — cabinet runs, window, ceiling height and camera angle stay put — so you are judging the change and not a different room. Trust the colour, the value and the way the room’s light shifts. Do not assume the inventory came back untouched: in one of the renders on this page a double-oven range came back as a cooktop with drawers under it, and nobody asked for that. Trust the hue, verify the appliances, and never hand a render to a contractor as a spec.
How long does a kitchen render take?
Seconds. The renders on this page came back in roughly 7 to 10 seconds each. You can run three cabinet colours on the same kitchen photo and compare them side by side in under a minute.
Is there a free kitchen design app?
Yes. Renovate AI is a free kitchen design app on iPhone and Android and a free kitchen design tool in the browser, on the same account. New accounts get credits to design their own kitchen photos with no card. The app is the easier way to take the photo; the browser is the easier way to compare five renders side by side.
Is this kitchen design software, or something else?
It is kitchen design software in the sense that matters — you describe a change and see it — but not in the sense of CAD. There is no floor plan, no cabinet catalogue to drag from and no measurements. If you need a layout drawn to scale, a kitchen designer or a planner tool is the right call. If you need to see your own kitchen with different cabinets before you commit, a photo and a sentence is enough.
Can I design my kitchen online for free without a floor plan?
That is the whole idea. Free online kitchen design here means one photo from the doorway, the change typed in plain English, and a photorealistic render in seconds — no plan, no measuring, no 3D model. What you give up is precision: it shows you what the kitchen would look like, not whether the island clears the dishwasher door.
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