Nano Banana Pro AI’s New Features for Architecture Beginners

I’ll show you everything that you need to know for Nano Banana Pro in the field of architecture and interior design. You will learn how to turn a screenshot into a render, turn a floor plan into a render, remodel a room, remodel a home or building’s exterior and landscaping, instantly change your render’s POV, create a mood board from your liked or saved images, and easily change the style of your image.

The hardest part about using Nano Banana Pro isn’t the tool itself. It’s writing a powerful prompt and knowing exactly what you want.

Create and Edit Images

Sign up and activate Nano Banana Pro

• Nano Banana Pro is unfortunately not free. You get your first month for free.
• Head over to google.com. Make sure you’re logged into the account that you want to sign up for Nano Banana on.
• Click the grid icon in the top right and scroll down to Google One on the left hand side. Select Google AI and select start trial. Follow through all the prompts to sign up.
• After you’ve done all that, go to gemini.google.com.
• To activate Nano Banana Pro, select create image and on the right hand side of the prompt bar, select thinking and make sure thinking with three pro is selected.

Turn a screenshot into a render

• Click add files, upload files, and select the image of your render.
• Type: turn this screenshot of a building into a high quality architectural rendering. Apply realistic materials where applicable and make it a bright sunny day. Press enter.
• This is the before and this is the after.

Add materials to your model

• At the bottom in the prompt bar, type your next command: Make the tower in the image made out of wood planks. Press enter.

Add entourage to the image

• You could type, add a lot of people into this image, but they may not be the people that you want.
• I have a pack of over 800 cutout scale figures. They’re realistic and they’re in PNG format. Choose which ones you want to see in the image.
• When you find the image you like, click it and drag it into the prompt. Do this with about 10 more people.
• After you’ve dragged the people into the prompt bar, type: add these cutouts of people in the images into the architectural rendering. Place them in realistic locations and adjust the lighting so they fit in. Adjust the scale of the people so they fit in. Press enter.
• This is the output from that prompt.

Change the weather

• To change the climate of the image to winter, including snow and clothing updates for the entourage, type: change the climate to be in the middle of winter. Add snow onto the ground. Change the clothing of the entourage to be winter clothing. Press enter.
• This is the output from that image.

Floor Plan to Render

Convert a floor plan into a rendered building

• Click new chat in the top left.
• Select create image to make sure Nano Banana is selected. On the right hand side, make sure thinking is selected.
• Click the plus icon and upload the image of your floor plan.
• Update the prompt details. For example, change the location to an urban environment and set it to 16 floors.
• Press enter.
• This was my floor plan, and this is the output from the prompt.

Remodel and Redecorate Interiors

Remodel an empty room

• Click create image. Make sure thinking is selected.
• Click the plus icon and upload the image of your empty room. This is a photograph of my empty apartment.
• Fill in the key design choices:
  • Design style: Japandandy minimalism.
  • Room: living room.
  • Color palette: 2026 trending color palette.
  • Key materials and textures: 2026 trending key materials and textures.
  • Furniture and decor:
    • Couch
    • Rug
    • Coffee table
    • Media console
    • TV
    • Artwork on the walls
    • A lot of beautiful house plants to give the room life
  • Add: decorate the room accordingly.
• Press enter.
• This is my apartment before, and this is my apartment after the remodel.

Redecorate a furnished room

• Click the plus icon to add the photograph of your room. This is a photograph of my apartment with furniture in it.
• Fill in the edit instructions. For example:
  • I want a new coffee table that matches the room.
  • I would like more house plants to fill the space.
  • I want artwork on the walls that match the design aesthetic already established.
  • I want magazines on the table for reading.
  • I want my couch to be L-shaped.
• Press enter.
• This is my apartment before, and this is my apartment after the edits with Nano Banana.

Exterior Remodels and Planting

Remodel a building exterior and add planting

• Click the plus icon and select the image of your home or the building that you want to edit. This is an image of a typical suburban home I’m going to use.
• Press enter to generate the new exterior. This is the home before the edits, and this is the home after.
• I have a pack of over 200 cutout plants that look realistic. Use it the same way as the cutout people pack to add whatever plants you want into the planting design of this home.
• Go through the pack, find what you want to add, and click and drag it into the prompt.
• In the prompt bar, type: add these uploaded images of plants into the planting of this home. Incorporate them so they look realistic. Adjust the lighting so they fit in. You may change the planting of the home to incorporate the plants better. Press enter.
• This is the output from that prompt.

Change Image POV

Shift the camera angle

• Click the plus icon and add the image of your building. This is the image I’m going to use.
• Turn it into an aerial view. Press enter. This is the output from that prompt.
• Create a view from the ground looking at the building. Adjust the camera angle so that the building is being viewed by a human on the ground at eye level. Press enter.
• Nano Banana still struggles with changing the POV of an image, but it does a better job at it if you ask it to move vertically. Even in this instance, it didn’t lower it all the way to the human eye perspective.
• Below the image is the redo command. Select this to redo it until you find one that you like.

Mood Boards

Create a mood board from images

• A lot of us have Pinterest boards or collections of images of buildings, art, or design elements that we love. Google Nano Banana can combine all of these elements into one mood board to help us narrow in on the right stuff for our project.
• Open your board. Click into an image, right click it, and select save image as. Save all the images that you would like to add to your mood board.
• In Nano Banana, click the plus icon and upload files. Upload all the images that you saved.
• Press enter to generate the mood board.
• This is the completed mood board created from all the images.

Turn a mood board into an interior rendering

• Upload the mood board.
• Press enter to generate an interior room from it.
• This is an image of the mood board and this is the room that Nano Banana created from it.

Change an Image’s Style

Restyle any image

• Upload your image.
• Use the style-change prompt and, inside the brackets, choose the style that you want to see.
• After you’ve typed in a style, hit enter.
• This is the original image. And here is that same image in a different style. There’s hundreds to choose from.

Final Thoughts

Nano Banana Pro can turn basic references into polished visuals, from screenshots and floor plans to mood boards and full remodels. Strong prompts make the biggest difference, and small, iterative edits help you fine-tune materials, entourage, planting, weather, POV, and style. Use targeted instructions, add your own cutout assets when you want control, and iterate with redo until you land on a result you like.