Living Room Art Layouts

I wanted help with the visual design of my living room. Codex produced plenty of material, but the design was still poor. I’m keeping this project as an example of how bad Codex can still be at visual-design requests, even when it can generate measured drawings, elaborate explanations, and editable files.

I supplied room measurements, sixteen artworks, and visual references. I wanted an editable playground where I could compare arrangements and keep moving things around. The request needed both visual judgment and a working file I could actually use. Accurate dimensions and editable layers were only part of that.

The conversation records three initial schemes, twelve measured wall studies, generated mockups, and two revised schemes after eleven editorial references. That is a lot of output. I’m preserving it to show the attempts, not because the number of artifacts or Codex’s descriptions of improved composition make the design good.

At one point I said: “ok, everything is like on top of each other. the layout is not good.” Codex then reported reorganizing the Figma file into measured, reference, and photo pages. That was a response to my criticism. I’m not treating the reported cleanup as proof that the overall design succeeded.

I’m sharing the measured elevations as evidence of the attempted layouts, not as recommendations or photographs of an installed room. They use one pixel per inch, with approximate furniture placeholders. I’m keeping the complete conversation archive and original room photographs private. This record does not establish a final accepted scheme, frame purchases, or installation, and it does not include a fresh check of the current Figma file.