Blog · 4 min read · August 18, 2026

How furniture try-on from a photo works

You give two things: a product link and one photo of your room. The listing supplies the real width, depth and height; the photo supplies the scale of the room, estimated from floor and ceiling lines. The model then renders the item into your photo at that scale, with your light and perspective — nothing else in the room is redrawn.

Where the numbers come from

The product page is the source of truth: name, photos and dimensions in centimetres or inches. That is what separates a try-on from a restyler — the sofa arrives with its real size attached, so it cannot be rendered armchair-sized to fit the composition.

How the room is measured

A single photo has no absolute scale, so it is estimated from what is visible: the line where the floor meets the walls, the ceiling line, the perspective of straight edges. This is an estimate and it has limits — a close-up of one corner or a photo shot from the hip gives the model much less to work with than a frame taken from the doorway at chest height with two walls and the floor in view.

What the model keeps and what it invents

Your room stays yours: furniture, walls and light are the ones in your photo. The item is rendered into the scene, with shadows and reflections matched to it. What the model cannot know is the fabric under your hand, the exact shade under your bulb, or whether the piece survives your cat — a preview settles proportion and fit, not everything else.

How accurate it is

Accurate enough to answer “is this the right size” and wrong enough that you should still measure when the clearance is a couple of inches. The method, and where it breaks, is written up on the accuracy page.

The fastest way to understand it is to run one: paste a link and a photo, it takes about thirty seconds and costs nothing.

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