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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

  1. Copy the prompt and paste it into ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or any other AI.
  2. Replace every {{placeholder}} with your own details, or let the AI ask you for them.
  3. Use the follow-ups below to go deeper.
Prompt

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

  1. Ask for any missing inputs, then build the schedule from what is confirmed.
  2. Pair every room in {{room_list}} with each applicable surface.
  3. Fill product, finish, and code columns only from {{selected_products}}; use "TBC" where nothing is chosen.
  4. Add Notes for installation, substrate, or sequencing reminders tied to {{client_priorities}} and {{wet_or_high_traffic_areas}}.
  5. Group rows by room in the order given.
  6. 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.