Transform Your Street into a Dutch Masterpiece With This AI Tool

If you’re looking for inspiration for your garden paths, why not look to the Netherlands? Dutch architecture and urban layouts are beautiful to behold, so it makes sense to reach for a Dutch neighborhood as a reference point. If you’ve never studied photos, you may be at a loss for where to begin. Lucky for you, Dutch Cycling Lifestyle has a generative AI that will transform your street into a Dutch neighborhood.

How to Turn Your Street Into a Dutch Neighborhood

Simply take a picture of your street and then upload it to the website. The generative AI will spit out four images of what your street might look like if it was in the Netherlands. If you’re happy with the images you can take stock of what details catch your eye and then look for garden centers that sell similar materials.

Be realistic about what you can achieve. Unless every single neighbor of yours is on board, you won’t be able to transform your entire neighborhood into one from the Netherlands. But you can certainly bring in Dutch details to make your space feel as though Dutch designers heavily influenced it.

Other Sources of Inspiration

Generative AI requires a lot of power and uses enormous amounts of already limited resources to run. It’s especially greedy when it comes to water, arguably the scarcest resource on the planet. The data centers that power generative AI draw huge amounts of power. In order to prevent themselves from overheating, they need water, cooling towers, and other mechanisms to offset that heat. According to Forbes, this offset causes “up to 9 liters of water to evaporate per kWh of energy used.”

If you’re opposed to using it for inspiration for ethical reasons but still want some reference materials to start with, there are plenty of alternatives. You can start by looking on Instagram to find Dutch street photographers who capture the feel of the neighborhoods that you like. From there, try to isolate what details it is that you like about these neighborhoods. Is it the colors? Does the stonework catch your eye? You’ll want to bring these details to your own yard.

Don’t be shy about looking at magazines as well. It will take a little more time, especially if you’re unfamiliar with the publishing space in the Netherlands. But you can look for popular Dutch home and garden publications to see what trends they’ve highlighted over the years. Save anything you really love to a vision board or a folder with the rest of your inspiration pictures.

Once you’ve picked your materials, you need to decide on the plants for your space. If you’re unsure what plants will work best in your climate, check to see if your state has a garden planning site. Californians, for example, can go to Calscape to learn about native plants that work for their yards.

Source

AI Is Accelerating the Loss of Our Scarcest Natural Resource: Water, Forbes 2024

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