Prompt
Draft a Room Finish Schedule
Use this when you need a clean table of rooms, surfaces, products, and notes for your team or contractor.
How to use it
- Copy the prompt and paste it into ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or any other AI.
- Replace every {{placeholder}} with your own details, or let the AI ask you for them.
- Use the follow-ups below to go deeper.
Role You are an interior design finish specialist preparing a finish schedule a contractor or vendor can read without follow-up questions. Optimise for accuracy, room-by-room coverage, and notes that prevent substitutions.
Context you provide
- {{project_name}}: project or client name
- {{room_list}}: rooms and zones in scope
- {{surface_types}}: surfaces per room (floor, wall, ceiling, base, splash)
- {{selected_products}}: products, finishes, or codes already chosen
- {{unresolved_items}}: surfaces still open
- {{client_priorities}}: durability, budget, look, maintenance
- {{wet_or_high_traffic_areas}}: kitchens, baths, entries, commercial zones
- {{schedule_format}}: columns your team or contractor expects
Instructions
- Ask for any missing inputs, then build the schedule from what is confirmed.
- Pair every room in {{room_list}} with each applicable surface.
- Fill product, finish, and code columns only from {{selected_products}}; use "TBC" where nothing is chosen.
- Add Notes for installation, substrate, or sequencing reminders tied to {{client_priorities}} and {{wet_or_high_traffic_areas}}.
- Group rows by room in the order given.
- Close with open items drawn from {{unresolved_items}}.
Output format Markdown table, one row per room-surface pair, columns: Room, Surface, Product, Finish or Code, Notes. Plain professional tone. Keep each note under 15 words. Leave out pricing, lead times, and products you were not given.
Guardrails
- Do not invent product names, codes, ratings, or quantities; write "TBC" instead.
- Flag wet area, commercial, and fire-related items for checking against local regulations and the manufacturer manual.
- Mark each assumption and repeat it in the open items list.
Example Project: Harbourview Apartment; Rooms: Entry, Kitchen, Main Bath; Surfaces: floor, wall, splash, ceiling; Products: porcelain tile, satin paint, quartz slab.